Arizona state miner., 1925-04-25

oIuC6 TIE UdWu OF C1VIllZdJlOn SlI-
yer has been utilized for ornaments,
for commercial uses and as a medium
Of exchange. Among modern nations
it shares with gold in popularity and
as a necessity. For many uses it
has been and always will be pre-
ferred. The demand for silver is be-
coming enormously increased. A new
era for the white metal is at hand.
This association has already sold to
Poland three and a half million ounces
of silver as a step toward resuming
of silver coinage in Europe
Silver mining is the vital industry
of the West and every citizen should
be intereted in it's development.
If you are interested in chance
that will not come to you again, write
or see Mr.. Bertrand, whose pleasure
it will be to give you further and
detailed information from accurate
facts.
1t may sound preposterous to say
that the President of Mexico and prac-
tically all of his aides hail from Son
ora; and three of them are princi-
pals and owners of the Nina Mexi-
cana, which is composed of 200 ocres
mineral grant, and makes a half
moon around our La Victoria and La
Palmita mines, adjoining. These
prominent Mexicans picked this spot
as being one of the surest and safest
for one of the largest mining camps
in the State of Sonora.
HISTORICAL DATA CONCERNING
PROPERTIES OWNED BY J. T.
AND WIN. p. BERTRAND
Old Quintanena mine, FL Chquito
mine and La Colorado mine.-In the
year 1900-1901, one DR.. Alderman, a
man by the name of Squires, and my
old uncle, now deceased, organized
what was called The Richfield Cop
per Company, near these mines and
in the same mineralized belt There
were nine claims they had renounced
and owned at that time that were
not included in the ground they turn
ed over to the Richfield Company.
They planned later to organize mil
lion dollar company of their own,
which never was accomplished, OW-
ing to the Yaqui Indian uprising in
1902, which made it unsafe and dan
gerOus for mining camps out in the
mountains. The point to noticed is.
they naturally reserved what they
deemed to be the best claims and the
richest for their own millioon dol
lar company and these three mines
are the pick Of these nine or ten
properties they had at that time.
Since over twenty years has elaps-
ed, these men are now all dead, taxes
were finally delinquent, which made
the property fall back to the govern
ment and free for re-claiming. MY
old uncle before his death gave me
all the valuable data concerning
these mines and helped me to go thru
the procedure to secure them, which
[ accomplished and now own them.
taxes and title all clear
Six years ago some Mexican neigh
borS near, went to work and drove
a tunnel in one hundred and thirty
feet on our Old Quintanena mine and
discovered very rich deposit of sill
yer ore and there was a lot of talk
about the rich ore they took out.
They attempted to claim the property
but of course did not go through with
it. They were advised the property
was not open for location, so they
were forced to leave. This is a val
liable mine. There has been high
grade ore taken out that ran four
thousand ounces per ton in silver,
and three to five ounces in gold.
La Cendrada mine and El Aimo
mine.-Many years ago, from sixty to
eighty years, as we'll as l can deter
mine from information from the sons
and daughters of the fathers who
worked these mines, there were forty
to fifty arastras on the river where
they packed the ore down from these
minis to grind out the gold. An ar.
astra is patio made of smooth rock
with hand rock dragged around
over the quartz until thoroughly pul.
verized. When this was ground fine
enough, they had a method of run
ming off the slime and gathering the
gold and silver Seven years ago,
while / was there, eight or ten of
these natives, some Of them sons Of
men who ooriginally worked the
mines, were trying to get together
and appropriate thousand dollars to
go out and open up La Cendrada
mine, and they had place figured
out where they could reach the rich
ore at the least cost. This informa-
ton is available when we start dew
elopment and will prove of value.
When the MeXicans themselves would
spend that much money it is beyond
doubt that the rich ore is there.
These people thought at this time
that the mine was open for location.
but it was not, for l hold the title.
1t will not require a great outlay of
money to develop this property. -Four
or five hundred feet of work will pay
all back and pay dividend with fur
ther development. These mines, La
Cendrada and Ell Alimo, are most