The Huttig news., 1914-07-04

me title had lapsed, and the land had reverted to the governmental it needed in Arizona was new set of monuments, a location notice at the discovery shaft, pick and shovel thrown into the hole, and 8 few legal formalities.
 But in Mexico it is different Not that the legal formalities are lacking far from it-but the whole theory of mines and mining is different. In Mex ico mining title is, in a way, lease, concession from the general gov ernment giving the concessionnaire the right to work a certain piece of ground and to hold it as long as be pays mining tax of three dollars an sere pear year.
 But no final papers CT patents are ever issued. the Lsssession of the sur. face of the ground does not go with the right to mine benath it, and in cer- tain parts of Mexico no foreigner can hold title to either mines or land.
 A prohibited or frontier zone. eighty kilometers i'll width, lies along the ia- ternational boundary line, and in that neutral zone no foreigner can de nounce a mining claim and no foreig, corporation can acquire a title to one The Eagle Tail was just inside the zone.
 But-there is always a but" when you go to good lawyer-while for purposes of war and national safety foreigners are not allowed to hold land along the line, they are at perfect lib erty to hold stock in Mexican corpora tions owning property within the pro hibited zone; and-here is where the graft comes in-they may even hold title in their own name if they first obtain express permission from the chief executive of the republic.
 Not having any drag with the chief executive. and not caring to risk their title to the whims of succeeding ad- ministrations, Hooker and De Lancey, upon the advice of a mining lawyer in Gadsden, had organized themselves into the Eagle Tail Mining company, under the laws of the republic of Mex ico, with headquarters at Agua Negra. It was their plan to get some Mexican to locate the mine for them and then, sor consideration, transfer it to the company.
 The one weak spot in this scheme was the Mexican. By trusting Aragon. Henry Kruger had not only lost title to his mine, but he had been outlawed An ho hoI bestowed upon Hooker and De Lancey she task of finding an honest Mexican,
 nd keeping him honest until he made the transfer.
 While the papers were being made out there might be great many temptations placed before that Mexi- car-either to keep the property for Himself or to hold out for a bigger re- ward than had been specified. After his experience with the aristocratic Don CjPriano Aragon y Tres Palacios. Kruger was in favor of taking chance on the lower classes. He had therefore recommended to them one Cruz Mem daz, a wood vender whom he had known and befriended, as the man to play the part.
 Cruz Mendez, according to Kruger. vas hard-working, sober ard honest pr a Mexican. Ee was also sinnle- minded and easy to handle, and was he particular man who had sent word that the Eagle Tail had at last been abandoned And also he vas easy to pick out, being a little, one-eyed man and going by the name of "El Tuerto."
 So, in pursuance of their policy of ,,laying waiting game. Hooker and De Lancy hung around the hotel for several days, listening to the gossip af Don Juan de Dios and watching for one-eyed men with prospects to sell
 .,. Sonora h5 :s poor and unimag- inative man indeed who has not at least one lost mine or .Tprospecto' to sell; and prosperous looking strangers. riding through the country. are often beckoned aside by half-nal.ed paisanos eager to show them the gold mines of the Spanish padres for hundred dol lars MlS.