The Yaqui Gold Fields

A Nogales dispatch of recent date says: "W. P. Harlow, of the well known firm of Harlow & Cowen, of this city, Capt. T. O. Cox, a noted mining expert from California, W. E. Pomeroy of Phoenix and R. J. Hartman, a prominent attorney of Prescott, have just returned from a visit to the Bonancita placer mining region in the country ceded by the Yaqui Indians in their recent treaty with the Mexican government. These gentlemen assert that none of the accounts of that region which have heretofore gone out have half described what is to be found in the Bonancita valley. The ground is pay dirt from the grass roots to the bed rock and varies in depth from 18 inches to 40 feet, and wherever bed rock is reached it is very rich. In several places a shovel full of earth taken from bedrock and carefully washed yielded nearly $2 in coarse gold, many of the pieces being as large as buckshot. A party of Colorado citizens who are here have offered Messrs. Harlow & Cowan more than $100,000 for the concession they hold, they to retain an interest."

Mr. H. T. Richards of Sonora, who is at Iturbide, is completing his arrangements for the construction of a large irrigating reservoir near Hermosillo. It is intended to water at least 100,000 acres of land. The project is being carried out on a large scale and will be another one of those substantial enterprises which American capital is contributing to Mexico. Speaking of the Yaqui gold fields, Mr. Richards says the gold is there, but in most instances it will require large capital to develop it. However, he considers it a profitable field for the prospector; in fact, gold placers are found along the entire west coast.—Two Republics.

W. D. Richardson, one of the leading civil engineers of the world, passed through Yuma this week on his return to California from a visit to the Salt River valley where he is interested in the production of canaigre. He stopped over one day to visit his old-time friend Senator Ives. After investigating the State of Arizona Improvement Co.'s canal scheme he did not hesitate in pronouncing it a great and feasible project. Mr. Richardson is largely interested in a company that is spending three million dollars in the development of the canaigre industry at Rialto, California, and when that enterprise is placed on its feet he will turn his attention to Arizona in the furtherance of his interests here.—Sentinel.