OCR Text |
Show FAMOUS LOST MINES FOUND. Tucson, Ariz., Noyl ..9. A Star special spe-cial from Guaymaj, Mexico, says: The lost Tayapa mines, celebrated in Spanish Span-ish annals as having produced $80,000,-000 $80,000,-000 in silver and gold in the seventeenth century, which are described on Spanish Span-ish maps as being situated in northwestern north-western Mexico, about fifty leagues from the sea, near Dos Pilares, have been found. As far back as 1859 Robert L. D'Au-malie, D'Au-malie, a celebrated French expert, declared de-clared the location of the Cieneguita, in the Sahuria district, Sonora. to he identical with the lost Tayapa. The Spanish owners are said to have been the close of the seventeenth t !;,, . v and it is stated that for ion yV:; thereafter no one was allowed t- . :,:.,. that region. Explorers who have recently r M , . ,j from Cieneguita report having .,.,, j ered the old stone prisons, old ters and also stupendous work .. ,lu. plished by the ancients. |