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Show LOST FOR CENTURY i Musty Records Point Way to Famous Fa-mous Gold Mine. With Nawly Dlaeevarad Dlractlona haft Whtre Mllllona of Dollara' Worth of Gold Mlnad May Ba Found. Arlipa, Mnlro. Tha famnua flan-ta flan-ta Toroaa nilna, which baa a record nf buying produced ore to Ihe value of morn than $10,000,000 gold during the Imtvr period of Hpaln'a control of Moxlco, may ngnln ronie Into prom. Inent notice after being loat for more than 100 yeara. The uiuaiy recorda of Ihla mine were found a few nionlha ago In the government arcblvva at Madrid, Hpaln, by I'alilo Iteaaia, who forwarded forward-ed a ropy of them to Miguel Ixin-gorlo, Ixin-gorlo, a mining engineer employed by one nf the cnmpanloe operating In Ilia Cananea dlatrlct, Ihla atale. The eilatence of Ihla rich mine haa bean a matter of roinmon knowledge lo many mining men In Ihla part of Meilro, al-moat al-moat from the very time thtit Ita location lo-cation waa loat. Hcorea of alteinpla have been made to redlacovor the property, bill theae ripedltlona have all proved frullleaa up to thla time. Mr. !oiigorln baa organised a party of mining men, nil of whom are Americana Amer-icana except liluiaelf, to go In aearch or the mine. It la anld that the ropy of Ilia record of the property'a production pro-duction alan cotitalna a coniplelo da-acrlpilon da-acrlpilon of Ita location, and It la thought that It will not he dimctilt to find It. It la atnted lhat there nra ' four men In Ihe exploring pnrty, and lhat they have employed guldea, who are. familiar with the country where the mine la ailplioaed to be Militated. It la kuown that the trailing olnt of the men who are employed lu the t U Hanta Tereaa waa Arlxpe. TbJ e-aeemlanla e-aeemlanla of many of the mineral io worked In the property are at 111 lying ly-ing here and the family trailltliiiof Ihe fabuloua rlchneaa of Ihe ora lid Ihe enornioua quantity that wail reduced re-duced are being told and retold ire It waa learned that the chancriire good of the property being opantlip. The owner of the Banta Tnae mine waa Ignaclo Munot, a ma)mf great wealth who lived at Oiurrtae. The abandonment of tho properly, ,a due to the rnlda of Yaqul and Anuaa Indiana. Theae redaklna niaaird many of the minora and Ihe rattuln-dur rattuln-dur fled to linurla, flrat aeallng ti Be entrance to the ahaft. Muniau lie owner, died aoon after thla, thai kr-mer kr-mer mine employee were acattfnd, Ihe ralda of the Indiana contajiail, and when It Anally became aafe main tn enter the region where tho fadiaia producer waa auppoaed to he aleaagd no trace of It could be found. The ealalence of the recorda af tie ancient mine In the government nrchlvea at Madrid la due to the fact that all ml ilea operate In Mexico during Hpanlah colonial dnya bad to contribute a part of their output to the crown. A careful record waa kept of the output of each mine. Ita location waa a mailer of official record rec-ord with the government. Dupllcatea of theae ancient recorda are to be found In the arrhlvee of many of the old towna and rltlea In Mexico. It la aald that the output of the Banta Tereaa mine waa ao thrge that aevernl hundred pack mulea were con-atantly con-atantly employed carrying the oro to Guaymaa, from which point It waa ahtpped by boat to reduction worka. The underground ayateru of worklnga la extenalve. |