El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-12
ORTEGA AT OJINAGA
DECLARE MINING MEN
Five Americans Make Trip From Sierra
MOjHda Without MOIestatiOn; Leave
Som. Americans in Camn.

Five Americans Make Trip From Sierra
MOjada without MOIestatiOn; Leave
Some Americans in Camp.
With the aid of a pair of long cared
mules. a party of four mining en-
gineers headed by George H. Carey
made the trip from Sierra MOjada, Goa
{ hula, to -Ojinaga and thence to FL
I pasO by automobile, arriving in this
city Sunday night. They had no trouble
getting through and did not see any
rebels until they got to Ojinaga, where
there was small band, among whom
was TOribiO Ortega, reported to have
been killed by federals at Rancheria in
the fight last week
In the party with Mr.. CAREY were:
". H Grant, Z. K. Soper, F. E. Calkins
and J. Elerm Thomas, al mining en-
gineerS who had been making geOlOg-
zeal observations and examinations at
the mines of the American Smelling
and Refining company at Sierra Mo-
jada. They left that town on August
3 and arrived at Ojinaga on Aug. 9.
Although other Americans leaving
Sierra Mojada prior to the time these
Americans departed, had trouble In
securing passes from Capt. MateO
Chavez. commander of the $50 federals
garrisOned there, Mr.. CAREY and party
had none.
FederaIs Execute bandits.
One week before they left, the fed
erals went out into the hills and cap
tured five bandits who formerly had
been soldiers under CarranZa- They
executed four of them and the fifth
made his escape
There was no railroad, mail or tele-
graph communication at Mojada since
early in April and up to the time they
left it had not been restored.
They left three American men, W.
B. Gates. superintendent Of the Amer
lean Smelling and Refining company's
mines; w. a. Sheldon, engineer for the
same company, and R R. Foster, en-
gineer for the Constancia Mining com
pany. With Mr.. Gates are his wife and
three children There are also a num-
Der of other foreigners, Austrians and
Swiss in the camp, but they are getting
out as fast as they can.
Food Very Scarce.
For several months Capt. Chavez
would allow no freight wagons to come
INTO the camp and the poor natives
were in dire straits for food, many Of
them being compelled to subsist on
green wheat However, the poems be-
came threatening and Chavez finally,
fearing for his own safety, permitted
the wagons to come in with food. The
Americans were compelled to do with
out the luxuries of life, but they had
a sufficient supply of the necessities.
Rebels Fail IN Attack.
About two months ago a force of
rebels tried to take the town and ap-
~ O1CAeu CAOSe ~ IL Inc 4euei d. gar
risOn went out and met them in an
arroyo and claimed to have killed 50
of the enemy. There was no means of
verifying this report from other
sources. but the rebels left and did not
bother the town again.
There about 800 men working at
present in the mines. while under
normal conditions a force of about 1900
is employed by the American Smelling
and Refining company in the San Sal
vador, Trinidad, Jesus Maria, San
Jose. FronteriZa, Oriental, Italia and
Vulcan Y Dolores properties.
The engineers have been down there
since January and would have left
sooner, but desired to complete their
labOrs before returning to New York
TO make a report on these silver-lead
mines