The oasis. [volume], October 27, 1906, Image 1

About The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920

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IN ARIZONA,
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MINING,
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Skcono Skkiks,
Vol. VII, No. 2.
NOGALKS. ARIZONA, SATURDAY, OCTOHKR 27, 1900.
Whole No. 70.
THE ZAMBONA MINE
GREAT ANTIGUA IN SONORA, MEXICO
properties. He sold hi intercut
id Gleene Consolidated, mid trciir-
NEAR ALAMOS jed a bond on the Zambona for
! 200,000 gold. Associated with
liim wen; the following gentlemen,
all well known here: .Messrs. V.
F. Botsford, F. L. Botsford, L. Pat
terson, II. It. Coleman and A. J.
j Yaeger. The company has paid
j J10,000 of the purchase price and
to j is able to meet the balance out of
j production at the present rate be
sides paying all expenses and the
j cost of contemplated improve
j ments. Over -foO.OOO have been
expended during the past two
years in development and equip
ment. It is stated officially that
ore, averaging 20 ounces silver,
sufficient to keep the present plant
in operation for ten years. i3 tech
nically in sight. The company
THE COOPER MEETING STILL AFTER YZABAL.
flow Paying Big Profits. Belongs
Los Angeles Operators. May Be
Listed in Los Angeles.
The Zambona mine at Minas
2suevas, Alamos district, Sonora,
Mexico, is proving by modern
.methods of mining and ore treat
ment to be a great property.
Two years ago the Zambona
Development Company of Los
Angeles, took over from the Mex
ican owner the Zambona, Descu
bridora and minor properties which
adjoin the great IJuintera mine,
and which had, for upward of two
centuries, been worked at great
profit by various proprietors
preposes to increase the muling
capacity, and to sink a new work
ing shaft during the coming year.
The mine has to its credit, in the
Alamos mint records, over 10,000,-
i 000 ounces of silver taken from
above the fifth level.
; The (Juintera mine, which ad-
' .1 ft 1 T.
i joins the zambona m the great
The Republican Candidate for Con
gress Echoes Mark Smith.
1 he Zambona as it is now called, contact is owntd tQ mQ eet aml
the Qu.ntera and the Promontonoj haJ heen n:orked steadil bya
",rir 1 one oi o! French company for twenty-five
celebrated groups of Mexico 1 hey t
iXVIir 111 !1 (rrMiit tnvniitu mik -i twine. . J 1 . . .
tV"" ft'"-. .VI . ml irmu minr.. frv
ite contact which has been traced!
lor more than sixty miles and
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which are omer mines oi impor
tance. The mines at Minas Nue
vas were discovered about 200
earsagoby tlie Spaniards, and
produced, before the war of inde
pendence, great quantities of bul
lion. In more recent times a mint
its credit. It has the reputation
ln i of being one of the most valuable
: properties in .Sonora and is iin
! proving with depth. The ores
' which contained 2 per cent copper
; at the surface, are now yielding 10
; and 12 per cent in the lowest level,
j while silver values have also in
creased. The companv has an ex-
. , . ..u a ih. o,, :cellent milling and smelting plant
miles distant, so that the out -'j () )eraj01
put has been a matter of record. 1 hm i. 'n' 4i i i
' rr, v. i 'i 1 he Promontorio, the third ot
1 lu'. Ail in h(ii:i mi i ij i niiiv in ,iwi I .
. .. ...... .i. -r.i. .4 mm1 ..j the group is also a great antnnm.
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woikmgs had reached the huh lev- ,. ' t : ,
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modern
el and showed a vein from fiftv
sixty feet wide stoped out for" the
lull width and in some cases 200
feet high with not a stick of tim
ber or any other provision against
caving than fairly frequent ore
pillars. Even the shaft was totally
without timbers, yet the workings
wen; in good condition.
The American company has
crosscut extensively showing the
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oie uuuies 10 oe izv) ieet wide in
new owners will shortly
this mine and install
equipment. The three properties
have a combined record output,
since 18('0 when the Alamos mint
was established, of over 50,000,000
ounces of silver.
The Guaymas-Guadalajara rail
road, now building towards Alamos
will make possible important eco
nomies in working costs. Fuel is
The shaft has been sullk i now packed in on burros and at
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high rates. The railroad will pass
through extensive forests of excel
places
to the 00 feet level, with drifts
and some prnsspnt. Thu nm
workings show that the values are leut fuel t,mber 1,1 the YlUlui val
increasing with depth and that i le wh,ch can he deI,veicd at the
copper is rapidly coming in. Mud- j Inlnfs !lt f mal1 (ixl)ense- A spur
em hoisting works and an electric I track wl11 be laul Jirect to the
lighting plant have been installed, ! Zami,ona mine' which is but a few
the twentv stamn mill l,.a uann hundred feet from the town of Mi-
reconstructed, whije four Hunting
tons and twelve concentrators
have been added to bring the daily
capacity of the plant up to 100
tons. There are now in sight, by i
recent measurement, upward of j
300,000 tons of ore with an average j
content of 20 ounces silver and !
small percentage of copper in the!
lower workings. 1 he mine is now
on a paying basis and the owners
are considering the advisability of
listing it on the Los Angeles Stock
Exchange.
nas Nuevas. Ore treatment costs
will also be much reduced, as con
centrates can be .shipped direct to
the new smelter at Guaymas.
Los Angeles Mining Review.
Monday evening there assem
bled in the Lulley Opera House a
fair audience to hear the present
ation of the issues in the present
campaign by W. F. Cooper, the
nominee for congress of the regul
ar republican convention, held at
Bisbee, at the same time as the
democratic convention. As stated
by the late lamented Mrs. Part
ington "comparison are odorous"
so there will be in these columns
no comparisons of Mr. Cooper's
meeting with any other. Suflice
it to say that with a candidate
standing for issues other than those
made by the democratic party and
corporations, there would have
been present many more people at
the meeting Monday evening.
When people are told, as they
were by Mr. Cooper from the Lul
ley Opera House platform Monday
evening, that there is no issue be
tween the two parties on the most
important and vital question that
has comt to Arizona since she was
created as a political entity, they
see no reason to turn out to hear a
speaker who admits in advance
that he has nothing to discuss,
Had Mr. Cooper come before the
people of Santa Cruz county Mon
day evening upon a platform in
line with the National Republican
Party, as set forth in the official
utterances of the greatest Republi
can of this day and generation
Theodore Roosevelt and present
ed the issues between the democ
ratic and republican parties upon
this very question of statehood,and
presented the reasons why that
stalwart Republican is working to
the utmost and bending his great
abilities to accomplish creation of
Arizona the Great, Mr. Cooper!
would have seen the Lulley Opera
House ciowded to the utmost to
hear him; and his everv sentence
would have been applauded to the
echo. Rut when he came announ
ced in advance as an echo of Mark
Smith, and standing upon the
same platform, republicans had no
desire to hear from him, and dem
ocrats would not, because they
knew that they could get the same
doctrine, pure and undefiled, from
the original fountain head Thurs
day evening, at the same place.
A press dispatch from the City
of Mexico says: "It has been an
nounced that voluminous doc
uments have been presented to
Congress formally accusing Rafael
Yzabal, governor of the State of
Sonora, of being responsible for the
violation of territorial domain.
The accusation refers to the en
trance upon Mexican soil of Ari
zona Rangers, alleged to have been
in the Governor's convoy at -the
time of the Cananea riots.
The exact terms of the accusing
documents are not as yet known
and their being made public is
awaited with much impatience by
the people here.
The Opera Season.
During the present week the
people of "ambos Xogales" have
enjoyed a real treat in the several
performances given by the Italian
opera company Ettore Drog y Cia.
which stopped at the line city a
few days, en route down the west
coast of Mexico.
The reportoire included "Car
men," "Faust," lLa Tosca," "Cav
alleria Rusticana," etc., and every,
opera was well rendered.
The prima donna Signora Rosa
lia Challia has a fine voice, well
trained and exquisitely modulated
and she is a finished actress. She
is well supported by the tenor,
Miguel Sagaldi, and the baritone,
Jose Torres Ovando. The costumes
and accessories are elegant and tit
ting. Taken altogether the com
pany is well worth' the patronage
that is assured it down the coast.
Visiting Silver Mines.
Tuesday Mr. .1. L. Sheperd was!
at Nogales, with Mr. Chas. A. Dei-i
hi I and Capt. George Kegelme ver,
two prominent business men ofCo-j
lumbus, Ohio, en route to La Du-
I ra, on the Yaqui river, to visit the !
'J he president of the Zambona ! silver mine in that vicinitv, owned
Development Company is Mr. W. ! by Mr. Sheperd, in which "the two
S. Cranz, who was a partner of I gentlemen contemplate taking an
Colonel Greene in the Cananea j interest.
For Sunday Closing of Stores.
A committee of clerks composed
of Mr. Pablo Soto, Mr. Juan II.
Arismendez and Mr. J. V. Gonzales,
have submitted to the ollicers of the
Board of Trade and the city coun
cil men a proposition for the clos
ing of all stores on both sides of
the line in Nogales at 8 p. m. on
week days, except Saturdays, and
ail day on Sundays, and met with
the most hearty approval of both
those bodies.' They now desire a
meeting of all clerks, to be held on
Sunday, October 28th, at 10 a.m., at
the club, to appoint a committee
to present a petition to all the
merchants and gain their consent
and endorsement of the plan.
The object is a very worthy one
and deserving of the fullest success.
The clerks' working hours are long
A Cold Wave.
The cold wave which struck this
section the fore part of the week
occasioned unusual activity in the
ranks of the hardware men and
wood dealers. Everyone who had
a room to heat wanted his stove
put up immediately, and a load of
wood to heat it, and owing to the
scarcity of help and fuel most of
those of our citizens not already
prepared for cold weather were
obliged to content themselves with
heavy under wear, overcoats,
shawls and variegated hlankets,un
til Old Sol saw fit to relieve the si
tuation, which fortunately lie soon
did, and we are again enjoying
the glorious climate of Greater
Arizona.
Telephone Connection.
The Benson Press states that
work has begun upon a telephone
line connecting that place with
Tucson. As Henson is on the lines
of the Consolidated Telephone A:
Telegraph Co., that extend to
Tombstone, Bisbee, Solomonville,
Clifton, and other points in Co
chise and Graham counties, the
short line now building will be the
connecting link bringing that great
region in close telephonic commu
nication with the rest of Arizona.
and arduous, and they should have
at least one day of the week to
spend with their families in relax
ation and rest, a nd we doubt not our
merchants will readily agree to the
arrangement.