Show A LOST MINE FOUND rediscovery of a source of great wealth in ill the mountains DURANGO to rocky mt news may 28 thore there is much excitement in mining circles of this state and throughout northern mexico 0 or or the discovery of a long sought for mine that large larga sums to the early spanish minors miners who ascended the rio grande river before the discovery of the famous Santa eulalia mines and the founding of the cities of durango aud chihuahua narcisco jimenez a prominent merchant of presidio del norte norfe is the fortunate discoverer of tho lost mine which is located in the vicinity of what is known as san antonio canon this canon puts into tho the rio grando grande river from the south several miles above presidio del norto norte from r rom haskell station on the southern pacific railroad in arizona a wagon road leads down to and through green river eiver canon from wendell on the same saine road a trail leads across the wagon roal roa 1 and canon named and from valentine a trail leads through buy bay hawk pass there trails are very indistinct but it has been discovered that they an all lead to the ruins of a massive old fort and large smelting smelling sm elting works in which the rich oies of the lost mine were doubtless reduced tho the smelter has two stacks by strongly built and battlemented walls there aro are many thousand dollars worth of ore now on the dump fragmentary history of the place preserved among the church records of chihuahua show that the inhabitants of the nourishing camp were massacred by indians in 1457 mr jimenez spent several months in active search for the lost mine HO he finally found half a mile distant from the old smelter a small dump overgrown with brush in the side of a low hill the brush was nas cleared away and the entrance to the tunnel was discovered daveral tons of broken brol on and very rich silver ore was piled pile d up just inside tho tunnels entrance mr jimenez will work the property on an extensive scale |