White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-13
ROMANCE Of THE
BRAVO DEL NORTE
REPORTED RESTORATION OF Sill
YER MINE FAMOUS FOR ITS
RICHES, LOST FOR MORE THAN
CENTURY.

mine. discovered in 1886, and which
Is said to have produced 1000
900 in silver ore before hostile In
dams massaered the miners In 1905,
has been found. The story as told
by the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. this
week, is as follows:
Three travellers were sitting
around the camp fire after a day
spent In rowing over the mountains
in search of the elusive riches of the
earth.
Suppose we hike ove to Van
Horn tomorrow and lay in a stock of
supplies" suggested Henry Miller, the
veteran prospector, who is familiar
with almost every trail in the rough
Wilds of the upper Rio Grande
border, as well as of the mountains of
New Mexico and Arizona.
DO you think it worth while to
keep up this gold hunting game any
longer?" questioned his companion.
The old man shrugged his should
ers.
You can tell where or
when you will make a strike; to
some the mountains give up their
bounties of silver and gold without
the p%rospector making any effort; to
Others, old men like myself, the store
houses of old mother earth may be
forever locked"
1T is a case of keeping at it.
you think" laughed Perry Lewis, the
younger man.
by no means, replied Mr.. Mil
Ter. But IL the prospecting fever
once gets in your blood 1t is hard to
get it out"
Pedro M~anchaca, the mozo or
servant of the two Americans, listen
ed quietly to their conversations.
IF / were to tell you how
great riches of silver may be obtained
would ] be given a reward?" shrewd-
ly inquired Pedro.
IF your story prove true we
would pay you, but nix do you get
for any hot air tales" Lewis good
humoredly assured the Mexican.
what have to say is about
the long lost mine-the Bravo del
Norte. as IL was called by the
Spaniards." began the mozo.
"Boshl" exclaimed Miller. Have
] not been hearing tales of lost
mines all my life. and how many
has there ever been rediseoyered?-
none as far as | know. It's all bunk"
But. senior. this Bravo del
Norte gave great riches of silver to
the Spaniards more than 100 years
ago; do not the records of the little
church across the Rio Grande in
Pilares. show that the mine was once
worked and produced quantities of
ore? Have | not seen with my own
eyes the ruins of the antique smelter
in an arroyo of the Vieia Mountains
where the ore from the mine was
t%reated?"
1T is like all other lost mine
stories that | ever investigated
myth, | have no doubt" Miller de-
elared.
Lewis listened attentiyely to
the story told by Pedro. 1t was a
tale that any people in the upper
border region of Texas have often
heard. but 1t was e to Lewis. He
came to the Chispa section several
weeks ago after working as a civil
engineer on the construction of the
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient rail-
road. He met Miller here, and as the
latter was about to start out on one
of his periodical mine prospecting
trips through the mountains of this
region. he arranged to go along.
Pedro. the Mexican servant is a ma
tive of Pilares. a little town of Next
co overlooking the Rio Grande, about
fifty miles south of here. He has
often tramped through the noun
tains that fringe the international
mountain stream.
Sitting upon the ground, with the
pickering light of the camp fire play
ing upon his bronze face, Pedro relat-
ed the tradition of the Bravo del
Norte mine.
ut was a long time ago. ne
said, when the good padres came up
from the distant capital of Mexico,
and located a mission church at
Pilares. Following these brave and
devout fathers there came men VINO
sought the gold and silver OF the
mountains. Who IL was that dis
covered the rich mine of Bravo del
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