Show WHERE PILFERERS OF ORE ABOUND N Interesting Description of Ok Old L. L Mining Camp in Mexico i. i i VEINS HAVE RICH STREAKS Thieves Open I rO I c t Near Dump I T and Connive With no I Miner f.- f. Ij 14 I. I D. D Combos Combes writing from the fa- fa ar a a. r 1 mou old mining mining- camp of chic Chihuahua to the El m Paso Times has the following follo to jay M ay of conditions ton there V This ol old mining camp Is suffering J nt at present from a n protracted suspension sion slon of activity It Is now no years cars since Ine It began an to attract attention an and morO more than worth of silver cr from Its r was taken so entirely away 1 mines as ns to not leave ea e other signs of sits Its once having boon been a bl big camp than r the several mills once running night nl and amI day but silent at pre present ent Not a I single le edifice Is tg there that could be said to give he an nn Idea of the wealth the town to has produced Three or four adobe buildings s are arc kept in a habitable condition anti and the rest are arc area a 1 lot of destroyed half ed hou houses s and huts usual huts usual where poverty rel reigns ns for fora a n. long long- time counting counting- scarcely The population i did It t as man many hundreds as once thousands Is supported in great part ore pilferers by the or which once found CI very rich plunder plumIer for most of the slIver veins of this re region re- re rich streaks often often often of of- glon gion have some vcr very or 01 3 to the pound of ten worth WOIth 2 ore One of their old tricks was to near tho the dump of or a amine 1 open a pro prospect to have o a pretext for their thell mine so as a presence night and 1 day a Then Ihen with the connivance either of or the boss bORS shifts shirts some of ot or J the men on the he the most mo t valuable ore would be shifted from Its channel finding its way Into their possession Tet T. T t of n a t Bonanza I L 1 heard lately a 3 i queer answer to know a do the qu question question- How o you when a mine tame is In bonanza It Is thieves abound In Its vicinity When hen especially with Such was the case little dl distance tance from situated a a. mines s r. r I. I Great facility in separating the town and to today today to- to factor Important p ores was an discover that nearly every l il day ay one ane can j. j knows how to test lest a ai peon on one meets tt t short hort time i sample of or ore In a a. very suspending Tho The principal cause for su of or running the quantity work was wa-s In some parts partS' of water vater encountered e. the mines these streams often being of such magnitude as to preclude the successfully possibility of or pumping hun hun- Imm immense im Im- The rhe locality Is dominated by an In which rests the big m mense nse pl plateau lagUna of San Juan For FOI several everal years year this lake has ha been filled to rains In the mountains abundant by b It Is but natural and surrounding It it drainage it surface that lacking mode should have ha some underground round mope As the distance frOm tr m the of escape to the mines Is less than laguna of or low ground It ItIs miles In the direction wh why a stream comprehend to tei Is easy abandoned abandoned of water should pour out an oneil mine The principal mines are arc the tho property property property prop prop- erty of Standard Oil on magnates and 1 the tho plea pica of lack of or funds cannot exist Immense of We Ve saw this phenomenon springs at a 3 long distance from high of or mountains and lakes especially es es- es- es J ranges rangeR at the southern ext extremity remit of the laguna plain In Coahulla at the foot of the Zacatecas range c 0 of moun moun- mountains n In Los Hermos an anti and other The thing occurs tn In Inthe Inthe points same the Sierra dc do Parras Parra whose geological cal formation is h of broken slate perpendicular per per- perpendicular varied by seaMs seams of hard Tock rock every eh eight ht or ten yards The I Immense supply of water which furnishes furnishes fur fur- tJ power for COl the Parras factories and irrigates surrounding lan lands s as ns far faras faras International railroad as the Mexican fifteen miles away awa is derived from this mountain b by tunnels and an In Increase increase In- In crease of or water Is found round ever every time the tunnel crosses a a. or rock seam eam sn m. m Some fome U Uchi ch Ore Shipped Very little mining i is done In Cost Cusi- at present although some ver very rich ore oro Is shipped steadily s from properties not worked on scientific principles It Is probable that a D. new Impetus will be given glyen shortly by the tho opening up of or the Reina y Juarez rez properties which have lately latel been bonded to parties who do do o not propose to sleep on their laurels This la is a 1 mine situated sit sit- about twelve miles south uth of or orthis this place place discovered about a 1 dozen years cars ago b by three charcoal burners The richness of oC the find was such that not nota a cent had to be put up by any of the tho first owners owners even even the thc c ex expense 08 from the tho posse pense c of or denouncement sus first rocks extracted Almost Almol 2000 of the th ore extracted was va accounted another million for or and probably disappeared The flue pre present ent condition of the property Is due to the bad system system tem of or renting on ro royalty alty and the bad ball faith of both renters and those I Ir r who had charge of oC tho the vigilance In the Interest of oC the tho owners |