Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-16
MEXICAN MINES

Mining is picking up all over the
 Moctezuma district 10 the southwest land eastward to Nacozari and sey. eral good deals are on which all
 mean money to this their port Of entry and supply point. says man
 who arrived rom Mexico yester- day.
 All thas country needs to boom is a resumption of railroad building in the upper YaQuo valley, thus en- couraging prospectors to locate and develop tbe mines which will ulii mately dot the map in all ihe noun tain ranges Of eastern Sonora. ] <Prospectors haze located for gold. silver, copper, lead and tin A strong move Is on foot to change the seat of government oT the Moctezuma district in Sonora to Cumpas or Nacozari. This meets with the general approval Of most of the natives and an the northern mining men.
 ! Rafael Vasquez. of Jecarl. is said 70 have been appointed prefect in place of RosaIia Garcia, just reniov- ed for cause.
 [ This district has been known Of about two years locally, but cannot as yet be said 10 have been dis. covered The mining world has not as yet been informed of the fact that there is lying, practically open To location as virgin ground, one of the first mineral belts of north ern Mexico.
 1t Is in the extreme eastern side of the district of Moctezuma and Is practically bordered on the east by the Ssnora--Chihuahua line. be- ing on the crest of the western of the two parallel ranges which to-
 gether make the Sierra Madres at
 this point.
 A few locations have been made
 on the immense rhyalite dykes of
 which there arc perhaps five run. ming nearly north mad south for over twenty miles. just at the foo, of pine timber, some coco feet above the sea level.
 All of these locations have pay ore at the surface, gold and silver
 worth mentioning.
 One of the most promising claims "El Rubi. was just in shape to be well prospected when the revo' . hutton broke out and the parties 7 having option 10 purchase left the country.
 The Saledad has yielded several
 tons from a small open cut The . Independencia has yielded several tons of shipping grade from shal- ! low shaft and the Con Virginia, . has likewise produced very high 3 grade from some gopherins in the surface. The last named claim has !. had 250 foot tunnel run through [ dead ground 10 the edge ot the 1 large vein, and work has stopped l just at the very interesting. stage . Of being where everything to be hoped for may be within q week , work, some twenty or thirty feet of quartz lying just ready to be
 cut and sampled. No fault oi the
 mine has led to cessation of work.
 Some little adjustment soon win be
 made and work resumed.
 The Pinos Altos has been pros. pected some lately in a very casua.
 and cheap way, but has shown pay | ore in croppings.
 The new Pearson railroad, the
 Mexico Northwestern, IS building l, two branch lines from Pearson to the Mormon colonies Of Chihuahua i, and Pachero, which win soon make
 railroad reachable in one day on
 horseback over good mountain
 trails.
 The sulphide ores of this district
 are remarkably clear from lead, zinc
 copper and autimony and yield as
 says running as high as ten thous- and ounces silver and one hundred ounces of gold per ton, the rates of one ounce of gold to one hundred silver running through the whole camp. Here is a district where camp conditions are ideal, where winter barely touches and where plenty of good ground is vacant ! It offers a most promising field ' for the northern prospectoTs to come in and pass the months in which the snoWbanks of the north put him out of business.
 The people are well disposed to- word Americans and law and order prevail everywhere. A consolidation of the most promis- ing claims could now be made aud an immense cyanide plant put 10 work. \ move is on foot looking toward the realization of this.
 The writer was shown the skin , of two large bear, one black and l one cinnaman, killed in the Sierra ! Madres by MT. and Mrs. H. W. Loomis, who have mining property 1 there. Mrs. Loomis jumped out of bed at daylight and in gown and slippers ran out of the tent and f bagged the black one with one shot from her 30-30. She has killed many deer and much other game in the twelve thousand miles or more she has accompanied her husband on horseback through the widest of the northern mountain ranges Of Mex leo for the past eight or ten years. They have been in the saddle al most constantly the past three months in the extreme upper drainage or the Bayispe river and find several portions of the cont mental backbone, where mines may reasonably well be expected to be ! discovered, the entire country being practically unprospected.- Douglas