El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-19
W. E. Pomeroy Says Work
Is Progressing Uninter-
ruptedly in the Sahuaripa
District.

W. E. Pomeroy. superintendent of the
Nina Alexico is in FL Paso perfecting
arrangements for the shipment of ore
to the shelters. Speaking of condi-
tions in Mexico in general and of the
Yaqui river country in particular. he
said:
Il am willing to talk business but
not politics. But have not the least
objections to going on record to this
one thing: The Mexican authorities
and the insurrectos, instead of trying
TO do anything to hurt me have done
everything they could to help me in my
work at the mines. Both sides have
repeatedly gone out of their way to
show me fayOrs in connection with
the mining operations and both SIDES
have done everything that could pos
sibly be done to encourage the men
who wanted to remain at work at the
mines to stay right with u.s. What
more could anybody say than that?
What higher praise could be bestowed
upon any people than this?
The result is that 1 have one OF the
best camps in the country. j have
never been bothered for labor. On
the contrary the only trouble that
have had has been to find work enough
for them to do. l think our little
town has increased in size since last
November until 1t must have popula-
ton now of about 2000 Il have SOO
men at work and they are the best
men in the entire Yaqui valley region.
There is not the slightest DISPOSE
ton on my part to criticise anybody
in the world, but 1 would like to call
attention to one thing and that is that
for the real miners Of Mexico the
bottom has not dropped out OF min
ing in Mexico. OF course, it is only
fair to say that sometimes efficient OPP
orators have been obliged to suspend
work for short periods of time because
of q. lack of powder or supplies. But
take the whole thing right through
looking at the entire subject by ana
large-I believe it also fair to Mexico
and to the mining Industry in that
country to say that a large part OF the
kicking and complaining and fault
finding has been found by. men who
would have failed anyway because they
have not had the judgment to select
good properties or because they have
started in with insufficient capital TO
carry things through to successful
finish. There may be exeeptions-there
probably are-but as general thinS
when you run down the 'kickers' and
the fault finders it viii be found that
they are men who WOULD have failed
And they are taking advan-
tage of the conditions to lay the blame
on the Mexicans as whole.
ri am today leaving for Mexico-am
going right back to our mine, which
is located in the district of Sahuaripa, !
in the state of Sonora. And I sup
pose If any crowd of men can be said |
to have encountered difficulties in con- /
nection with their work it is the men !
in the Yaoui river valley. Speaking |
of packing in supplies. we have some |
times been obliged to- bring in sup |
plies a distance of over ,120 miles and /,
there are few men who have been more /
isolated from the railroads at times !
than our camps. And yet we are not |
in the least In fact, |
think I can assert without being ac- |
cused of whistling 20 keep up courage, !
that the future OF the Yaqui river min /
ing territory never appeared brighter |
than it does right at the present time. |
Our mine is located about so miles /
northeast of Tonichi, station on the
Yaqui river branch of the railroad.
Since NoYember-the time when the |
troubles in Mexico began-I have built
an 80 ton smelter We are equipped |
with uptodate. machinery. water jacket,
blast furnace-a1 the things that the
modern mining man delights in 1t
vas March 20 when we 'blowed in and [
We are now deyoting most of our time
and attention to the mines and to
perfecting details of shipment. For
over a year we have been blocking
put the ore and we are now down over
$40 feet
THE Nina Mexico company bought
his property from the Don Carmen
)rtega estate about three years ago.
The property was located by Ortega
ibout 1885 and was worked by this
spanish owner pretty continuously up
o the time of his death three years
go.
zone thing ought to please the BUSH
less men. This smelling plant was