The land of Nayarit, an account of the great mineral region south of the Gila River and east from the Gulf of California to the Sierra Madre . ^™ ^ honeycombed with tunnels, shafts face t e ;o7d rt I , , °t T •^ ^ ^^ ^^^ lifted to the sur-face, the gold extracted dry by batcas wherever water was unattainable and withwater where tt could be had. Development of water by sinking wells and pumpi ^.t to the surface for hydraulic washing has been proposed-there being pleZolwater below. The field is covered by a concession to P. Sandoval* Co o^ogales. Northward from Cienega, near Caborca, is another
The land of Nayarit, an account of the great mineral region south of the Gila River and east from the Gulf of California to the Sierra Madre . ^™ ^ honeycombed with tunnels, shafts face t e ;o7d rt I , , °t T •^ ^ ^^ ^^^ lifted to the sur-face, the gold extracted dry by batcas wherever water was unattainable and withwater where tt could be had. Development of water by sinking wells and pumpi ^.t to the surface for hydraulic washing has been proposed-there being pleZolwater below. The field is covered by a concession to P. Sandoval* Co o^ogales. Northward from Cienega, near Caborca, is another rich placer fieldthePalo,„as. In the of El T,ro, El Cajon. Cerro Colorado, and manv otherocaht,es, are placer fields which have been worked over and o^r again Wes prred^m^hLT;: ™^^ ^ ^^^^^ °P^=- - -y P-- * ™-_ In quartz mining the region has been also famous. The great El Tiro lerlo-^IS traced a distance of twenty miles in a north and south direction At El Ti?oon the north end the i?...a de Oro Mining Company has sunk several shaf s todepths of 400 to 600 feet, connected by levels every 100 feet, and all in good free. CATHEDRAI,, HERMOSII,I,0. m^ton nrnll Ai hi Lajon de Amanllas, on the south end, twenty miles awav theYerkes Gold Mmmg Company has large bodies of free milling gdd ore read;for stopmg, and a new complete 20-stamp quartz mill ready for its reduction £/T^ro IS about fifty miles southwest of Santa Ana station, and El CatnT^y^olforty miles west from Llano station ^ ^°^ a moulTain ofo^r Th ^ ^^^^^^ ^^l ^-- Colorado, which is almost literallya mountain of ore. This property has been worked for years, the workine-s following rich streaks and stringers of gold rock, which was educed na^smah3-stamp mill near La Cienega, leaving exposed more than a million tons of Towgrade gold ore which will mill $5 per ton. Several years ago it was thorouilvsampled by an Idaho miner named Hanley, who estimated that therr^reTs 000000 in sight m the mine, and he was. a
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