The border vidette., 1917-02-03
THE MOWRY MINES.
Famous Old Santa Cruz County Prop
 erty to Resume Operations.
The Tucson Citizen says:

and most interesting mining deals that has been brought to our atten tion of late is the culm-
 ination of the sale of the famous
 Mowry Mines to the Standard
 Metals company. Negotiations
 have been pending for some time
 past for the re-opening of the
 MOwry, but it was not until 8. few days ago that Theron Wal
 ker, Los Angeles broker, re- ceived a telegram from the East
 that satisfa ctory purchase price
 had been arrived at and the deal
 was now closed. The Mowry
 property consists of 24 patented claims, or 420 acras, on which is situated the town of Mowry,
 with postoffice, school, smelter and everything else pertaining
 to large mining camp. The Standard Metal company's chief engineer, Wm. J. Mitchell, is
 now at the Mowry, and it is believed extensive operations
 will begin at an early date and that the mine will soon again re- gain it's old time activity.
 The Mowry is located about nine or ten miles south of Pata- gonia, and supplies for the camp, as well as ore from the mine, are handled from this railroad. sta tion. There is an interesting tale attached to the far famed Mowry Mines, for during the American operations preceding the Civil War the property, then known as the Patagonia Mines," was the most noted and richest in these regions.
 ''The mineral deposit was dis covered in 1858, and it's discov- erer, named Johnson, sold it to number of army officers who the property for a time, then selling it to Sylvester w. Mowry, who had been a lieuten- ant in, the army, resigning to engage in that enterprise. Lieut.. Mowry erected reduction plant and conducted operations on an elaborate scale for those times. He smelted the ores in reverber atory furnaces, the product being lead bars, rich in silver, that were transported to Quay mas by wagon. thence by sea to Swansea, in Wales, where the metals were separated and the silver refined. It is reported that in the course of two or three years the output exceeded one million dollars.
 ''In 1862 the property was seiz- ed by American military author ities in Arizona, and Mowry was placed under arrest, charged with treason. He was kept in confinement several months at Fort Yuma and then released. The property. however, was not restored to him. The specific charge of treason against Mowry was that he had shipped lead to the South that was cast into Confederate bullets that were used against the Federal armies in the Civil War. Parish, the official historian of Arizona, states that Mowry endeavored fruitlessly to secure from the government reparation for the damage done in seizure of his property, writing extensively to bring his case to public attention, and that a few years later he died in poverty in London. Me Clintock gives different yer sion. According to that histo- rian, Mowry did succeed in col lecting $4O,OOO from the general government, which sum was paid in 1868, shortly after which payment Mowryzdied in London. Mowry's writings calling atten- tion to the rich mineral resources of Arizona and Sonora, in his endeavors to right his own wrongs are valuable contribu- tions to the annals of both states.
 Several times since Mowry's day have the Mowry Mines been worked, and about a dozen years ago there was erected reduc- tion plant of goodly. size and capacity, handling about 100 tons of ore daily. The mine was explored to depth of 500 feet. Litiga tion terminated operations, however, until the last few months, when some parties leas- ed the property and worked it on small scale up until the time negotiations were started for it's purchase by the Standard Metals company" .: