Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-03
Mexico IS TREASURE
HOUSE, SAYS REFUGEE
Lakes of Oil, Great Ranches and
Vast Natural Resources
There.

"A man who has spent years Of his
NE on the south of the Rio Grande and
whom The stormy times of the last few
years IN Mexico had driven back TO
view York, was telling about the things
ne mad left behind there the other night
and this was the burden of his tale.
says the New York Times.
He told of a sdbterranean lake of
OIL, known to be 200 miles long and
from is to 90 piles wide. with Il "gush-
err that flowed more than 300, 900 bar
refs IN "a hours before ii was capped"
and reguiated: of valleys filled with
oil in that "a hours: Of vegetation
drenched for miles around. Oil-crude
Oils worth roughly 81 n Barrel at
the well.
He told of ore that assayed $4,000 to
the ton. and hundreds of tons of 1t in
sight, and the eyes Of the Americans
who listened opened wide.
Under Spanish rule" said the MAJ
from Mexico. the mines of G,uanajuato
alone produced over $1,000. 900, 900 worth
of silver. The mine owners made mill
lions so quickly that one of the Span
1sh viccroys was forced to issue an or
handfuls of silver on ne Streets be-
cause it increased the number Of beg
gars. Also. ii was a public nuisance.
We'll, it isn't very different in the
year 1914. For instance. there's Pedro
Alvarado. the owner of the Pshmillo |
IuiiIS- ' IIC ID eIl III iitis'H WIN
has no idea how much money he has,
nor any idea of Its value. In the last
few years he has built so churches, at
least 100 schools, and has given away
several fortunes. Christmas, 1910,
Pedro Alvardo gave away $4,000. 900 to
the poor for the love of Cod he said.
Pedro dresses like a peon. but he
has "A beautiful tlome in which there is
the finest furniture, several pianos n
20 talking MACHINES. Before Porflrio
the national debt of Mexico. When his
request was refused he asked to be az
lowed to pay off a piece of 1t. anyway.
When this was also refused he got in
dignant and a V away a fortune -esti-
mated to equal the interest on the ma
ton debt for five years. Fact!
There's a mine in the state of Son.
ora, not far from Arizpe. Which is prob
ably the richest mine in the northern
half of the republic. This property has
high gold as well as silver values. An
engineer from Cananea was allowed to
visit the mine and the Mexican owner
asked him to sample and assay a ship
ment of SO tons Of ore that was going
to the smelter. The owner said ne
didn't think the smelter was giving him
money. but ne wasn't going to bs
robbed by anybody.
"The engineer assayed the ore. Then.
thinking he had made a mistake, ne mao
two other assayers check his results
All three assays checked within q rev
$685. 900 q ton, The shipments had been
going on regularly for quite a while
The owner used the mine as q bank
Whenever he needed money ne would
send a few men into 1t and take outsa
mail fortune. I know that, ecauS
was the engineer.
''There is another property In the
same district and this Is how 1t was
discovered: There had been a tradition
in that region about a wonderfully racn
mine; which had had been worked sss a,, y sas
70 spI be In a certain direction from a mis-.
sion, now ruined and could be seen
from q corner OF the main building. An
American prospector followed the d.
rectiOns. He was sure he was close tc
It. but he couldn't locate the old work.
ings.
"At last he took a trip TO Spain; ne
said he was going to see II he couldntI
find some record Of the mine IN the
18th century archives which were sup
posed to exist there. 1t has never been
turned and went straight to the district
In which the mine was said to be and
walked right on the property. He took
out a fortune In less than q year. Then
he sold the mine to 9 syndicate which
was doing very well when the wara
broke cut, when 1t suspended opera.
lions.
1.-THE old workings of the mine had
been carefully covered over when the
American discovered 1t, and the re.
mains OF 40-odd Indians were found
walled up in the tunnel. BY walling up {
the Indian miners, you see, the Span.
iards a made sure hat the location !
OF h property would not be betrayed
They thought they were coming back to
Mexico some day, n intended re- I
opening the mine. {
why. there are lots Of creeks OF
streams, particularly In Sonora, where {
q peon or a Chinaman can make from
Is to SO o day washing for gold with
ordinary pan. They call these little
streams poor mems banks {
You mustp't forget the cattle. when
you think OF Mexico. Until the various
armies began to eat them up, the own
ers In the two big ranches Of Sonora
and Chihuahua had no idea how many
COWS they had. These cattle are what
the armies are living off now; that's
how they get their meat. "A few years
when I was mining on the big
ranch. In Sonora, we never attempted
tO.buy meat. We Just gave the Chinese .
g Winchester and two cartridges ,
only two because he'd 60 hunting III
y0u@ gave him more, and wouldn't re.
turn-and that night we'd have beef.
steak for supper.
Her Absence.
How rich hath Time become through hee
His sands are turned to purest ecid!
Yet 1t. alas! grieyes my heart sore
To see them slipping from my hold