Geological Report and Map of the San Juan Del Rio Ranche, in Sonora, MexicoWrightson & Company, 1866 - 86 páginas |
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Geological Report and Map of the San Juan Del Rio Ranche, in Sonora, Mexico Cincinnati Association Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
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abandoned ancient mines Apaches argentiferous Cañada cañon certify CHARLES DENMAN Cherunivava Chihuahua Cincinnati Cinco Commissioner Municipal concession crest CUMMINGS CHERRY Cumpas debris denounced Department of Sonora depth diorite District documents dollars DURAZO EDGAR CONKLING encasing rocks erected excavations extent fissure formation four leagues gambucinos gangue gold Grant Guaymas Hermosillo heurigo Huacal hundred Imperial Mexico JESUS PROVENCIO Joriquipe Juan del Rio lands of San located measurement ment mesquit metalliferous Mexican leagues Mexican yards mill mineral veins Mining Association Minister of Fomento Moctezuma months mountain Nacosari North north-west Northern Sonora Official Surveyor Oputo outcrop Pinal porphyry present productive profit quartz Ranche reál remit rich Rio property Rio Ranche rubbish San Juan San Juan del San Nicholas San Patricio San Pedro scoria SEAL Señor CHERRY Sierra Silver Mining Sub-Prefectura sulphuret superior surface taho timber tion Toapatz triclinic Valenzuello valley VICENTE PROVENCIO vicinity wagon road West width Yaqui River yield
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Página 62 - Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this Seventeenth day of September, AD 1866, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Ninety first.
Página 62 - United States of America, Department of State. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: I certify that the copy hereto attached is a true copy of a resolution of Congress, entitled Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the original of which is on file in this Department.
Página 58 - I subjoin,) and that I have adopted nothing upon mere verbal report. The States of Durango, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa, contain an infinity of mines hitherto but little known, but holding out, wherever they have been tried, a promise of riches superior to any thing that Mexico has yet produced.
Página 65 - In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 2d day of June, AD 1863.
Página 57 - Not immediately finding the principal vein, they divided the money, and discontinued their works. The mine is laid open from the surface 400 yards in height. Tradition says that the first discoverers found the vein of virgin silver half a vara in breadth, that it was abandoned in the Apache war, with the vein as described above two varas, and ores of seventy marcs per carga. The richness of these ores appears almost incredible, but when we consider the great quantities of bars of silver that Sonora...
Página 59 - Arlzpe, (about 36° north latitude,) in a situation possessing great local advantages, a fertile country, the vicinity of two large rivers, and a communication by water with the Pacific. The mines themselves were formerly celebrated for their riches, and the capital required to bring them again into activity is very small. The specimens which I have seen of the ores extracted from them, almost induce one to adopt the theory, that the proportion of silver contained in the ores increases as you advance...
Página 47 - RIVERS. — The Yaqui is the largest stream in Sonora, and perhaps the only one which may be deservedly termed a river. It takes its rise in the mountains near the Arizona boundary, and flows in a southerly course. "HARBOR OF GUAYMAS.
Página 59 - ... the North ; a theory which is very generally believed, at present, in Mexico, and which is certainly confirmed by the superiority of all the Northern ores to those of the richest districts in the South.
Página 58 - ... Sinaloa, to the North and West, — the ores of the mine of Santa Juliana (which does not exceed seventy yards in depth) appear, by a certified Report from the...
Página 57 - That the great mineral treasures of Mexico commence exactly at the point where Humboldt rightly states the labors of the Spaniards to have terminated, (above latitude 24°,) is a fact now universally admitted by the native miners, although heretofore but little known in Europe. The states of Durango, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa contain an infinity of mines hitherto but little known, but holding out, wherever...