Show I LUST FOR GOLD lEVES LEVELS A VILLAGE The Ancient Village Viage of San Antonio Falling Into Decay Lust Lu t for gold wi will soon cause the abandonment of the little Mexican ham let of San In Antonio Atonio on the east bank of the Yaqui river between La L Dura and ad In 11 the state tte of Sonora say a number of mining men ml who have re recently returned from the new Yaqui river placer and quartz district Two hundred years ago a band of hardy priests pret and their proselytes built builta buit a small mal chapel in jn the center of the present site le of ot San Sn Antonio and plant planted ed td the te standard of or the cross amid the fierce and warlike camps of or the Yaqui Indians who ho were living at the time Ume in the upper Yaqui valley valey As the year yer yer passed by the town grew gew in size 1 and became JL a stopping point pint for tor the travelers and explorers in their Journeying through the val yale valley ley toy with wih IU its It rich ric placers and fabulous wealth of ot quartz quarts mines The old In Indian Indian dian dma workings in La L Dura wore were re ye resumed resume sume by the Mexicans who thought they had bad found the Golfo Golo de do Oro spoken of in the chronicles of Monte Montezuma Montezuma zuma and the gold 1014 seekers poured in from all al parts of ot the republic on a wealth adventure almost at the first cry of ot discovery Xe Quest San Sn Antonio was founded early In the eighteenth t century in ln the ery days when whan the Spanish don drove the sons eons of the Incas before him In ln the tho never ended ende quest qU lt of ot gold It I had Its Is days daya of Spanish dominion Its I days daya of mission missionary ary ar zeal its tt nights nighta of native pillage and fire tre its It year yer of Yaqui fear tear Out of this turmoil of history is left loft a a vii vil vi lage lag of ot families who are minors miners and tillers of the soil noil in tho the river valley valey The mountains that rico on the tha th bluffs above the this river supplied the Spanish colonists colonist of the early earl supple days das with a great quantity of tho the precious metal that found Its Ia way into the suf fetes fetos of ef noted note cathedrals and the cof fers fer ens of the tha Spanish crown Every now and then thon following the heavy rains a landslide exposes expose to view an fn opening nigh bight up on the cliffs wIt witch m h is the tho mouth of one of these theBe ancient mines It I Is but a natural consequence that where the country Is ls ro po highly mineral lx with gold the river bed and valley valey should hould prove Irve profitable as a placer field and It is la in the truth of this fact that the late into of San Antonio is sealed Favor Chinese Miners Miner During the Yaqui Indian troubles it if is 1 a curious fact fac that while the tho killed kile and drove out of the rich placers in this thia region during the days of tha tb i uprising the Mexicans they the the Chinese to go onto the ground ani work it I What hat the Chinese have takes take takeout out of this thin ground will wil never be he but it has bal whetted their appetites for tor placer mining to such such an extent that they are now always the tho first to go into any region where placer ground Is II discovered dl vered The San Sn Antonio Atonio placer is an old channel of the Yaqui river which has shifted its Is course The Tho Spaniards worked down dawn the gulches from tho the mountains flowing Into this bed and the bed be itself Isel the Chinese following the Ue same eme methods method metod But Dut when the level of the workings got below the tha under underground underground ground grund flow ow of the Yaqui river opera operations operations lons had Iad to be abandoned Herman Heran Wendler endler a New York engineer representing representing eastern capital Is now testing out this ground grond to depth with Key Keystone Ke Keystone stone tone drills dri The values alucs have been found to run high enough to warrant operations with wih dredges on a a large scale San Sn Antonio is located on a portion of the area are Included in the denouncement for tor placer development and aa as a a result all al the buildings wilt will wi be b torn tor down the streets bored for tor gold and the Ute inhabitants given new homes hom which are to be erected on non gold bring land of Gold Thirst The destruction of San Antonio for tor its Is golden cellars celar la is li akin to the de do destruction of ot Cienega in the Altar Alar gold placer fields field where the tha city of inhabitants In the early days day of excite excitement excitement ment mont there away back in 1800 has been torn down for tor the purpose of extract ing the gold from the adobe walls wals of the houses housel and even the old church by the dry washing process Some day through American ity and American capital the gold in inthe Inthe inthe the cellars celara and walls wals of ot the houses of ot San Sn Antonio will wi be shining coins in inthe inthe inthe the strong vaults of Wall al street and ready again for tor Investment In tho the rapid development of at the slater sister fister lic Douglas Dispatch |