Show DISAPPOINTED MINERS I Re urn Broke Prom the Deceptive Yaqui Fields Denver Dec 4A special to the Republican from Santa Fe N M says For the past 60 days scores of prospectors pros-pectors fioui Colorado and the northern II north-ern states have been passing through New Mexico en route to the Taqui II river placer fields in Sonora ire The i rush caused much excitement in this I territory and recently delegations of I mining men have started in there from Albuquerque Silver City Santa Fe and other points However Special Agent H C Flip f per of the United States land court 1 who returned today from Hermoslllo I and vicinity tells a story that will dis 1 hearten all the seekers after wealth in this new Eldorado He says hundreds of miners who have spent the last few I weeks along the Yaqui river are now struggling to get out and return to the United States The reports of gold discoveries I dis-coveries there have been greatly exaggerated ex-aggerated People who rushed Ins in-s med to think that a scoop and a I gunny sack was all that was necessary I to secure a fortune but said Flipper I while gold has been known to exist along the Taqui river for many years It is by no means a poor mans mecca I If it can be saved at all it must be done only by the use of expensive hy draulic operations hence the disappointment disap-pointment of the hundreds who have lately gone in there Most of the returning re-turning prospectors are expected to winter In the gold camps of New Mexico and Arizona |