Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-03-08
PLACER MINES
IN OLD MEXICO
PROVING RICH
Douglas Man Just Returned
from Sonora, Tells of Great
Profits Being Taken Out by
Americans.
lnouelas InternationaI.l

4lAlAEidS
From H. T. Dugan. who has been
Investigating the placer gold fields
of western Sonora recently, the In
ternational has secured a full re-
port Of the conditions prevailing
cality.
The placer fields lie about 30
there. and the opportunities now
offered to gold seekers in that 10
miles southwest of Santa Anna. AID
northwest u HermosiIlo. cover >
territory 200 miles Ions. y miles
wide, and show such amazing rich
ness as to be astounding.
Nit GUNNER. the inventor Of an
ingenious machine for treating pla-
Ger grounds. the details Of which
were published in a former issue
Of the International from an inter
siew BY d. A. Richardson. is on the
ground with one machine. as is
also his first financial hacker, Char
les Peck. now Of St. Louis and for
merly of Tucson.
MIR. Peck has been working one
machine for the past ten months
and during that time has cleared
over 100000, while Mr.. GUNNER
has taken out with his machine
more than $4,000 worth of the gold
en- metal since last March. and this
upon ground that has been worked
by Spaniards and Yaqui Indians for
the past 200 years with dry washers.
Mr.. Dugan watched the operation
of one of these machines for two
days. and the run for the first day
was p ounces of gold and for the
second day "A ounces. and within
half mile Of Quinner's camp, three
American boys, Bray. Thompson and
Jones are clearing more than SlT5
per day. using the primitive dry
washer. And within a radius Of so
miles of Quinner's camp 500 MeXl-
cans and Indians are also dry wash
ing
Quinner has denounced 1000 per
tenencias Of placer ground aud John
Hays Hammond, the worlds famous
mining expert, has denounced 5000
pertenencias 125 miles north of
Quinner's holdings. showing the ex-
tent OF the field.
The gold is coarse and the largest
nugget seen by Mr.. Dugan weighed
AZ kilos and he saw many weigh
ing from ] to 2is ounces each.
The gold is found in cement
congIomerate and in some places it
is 11o feet to bedrock. but the In
dians, Spanish and Mexicans have
never worked the ground lower than
ten feet and OF course the nearer
the bedrock the richer the arpazs1.
Probably fifty Americans have
taken up ground in the placer dis
trict and Mr. Dugan's advice to all |
seekers after gold is to get in on |
the ground floor of this marvellous
Is rich district
Water for the most part is
scarce but it can be found in most
places at a depth Of from 30 to so
feet. and provisions are plentiful
within 25 miles OF the placer work |
ings as there is a rich farming aud
cattle country nearby.
George d. Stonestreet, who repre-
scented the English government in
the Rand district in South Africa
for fifteen years. is at present in
the employ of Mr.. GUNNER. He made
1900 samples on 40 acres of ground
and estimates that on this one tract
there are 100000 worth OF gold
in sight. He also has examined
1000 acres of ground not so rich.
and estimates that there are on
this tract 100000 in gold
Quinner's machine is admirably
adapted for this ground and each
machine properly handled is cap
able of handling 500 tons Of the
conglomerate in "a hours. but the
machine viii handle quartz with
equal facility. 8 tons Of quartz from
nearby mine being handled in six
minutes.
James Suits. the well known min
ing man, and E. II. GOode, a cat
tie man who recently came to Ari- /
IONA from Oklahoma, and who ac-
companied Mr.. Dugan into Sonora
remained there for the purpose Of
denouncing placer ground for them
selves