MEXICO. Two of the Lost Bonanza Mines Discovered by an American.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

MEXICO. Two of the Lost Bonanza Mines Discovered by an American.

A Liyrr^u to Calico " Print " says : " The discoMiy of two of the lost Mexican bonanza' mines by an American party of prospectors has boon announced. Humboltlt and Hamilton speak of the fabulous wealth obtained fiom these mines by the Spaniard*. They wcic worked up to the middle of the last century. In 1736 the Indian 5 , swept over Morthern Mexico and destioyed Chihuahua, and all the miner.-, were dihon out. The Indians had control ot the country so lung that the records weio lost. Recently Lieutenant Kipper, formerly of the United State- army, \V. K. (ilenn, of Illinois, and Captain Allen Mclntyre, of Chicago, went out on a sun eying expedition 'in the intciest of a Sonora land company, and in an old chapel found maps and other data. Dividing into four small parties a thoiough search was begun and Mclntyre^ party located what is believed to be the La Yopa silver mine, in the midst of thmwuuK of ruined buildings, among churohe-, and forts. Within a radius of four mile*, aie 920 workings, old Spanish furnace^ and ion-, of slag. A few days later Bow er<-\ party reported the discovery of Ouaynopa, in the heart of the Sierra Mad re mountain*. Around it are the ruins of 118 arastivi-, Ad\ ice* from Nogales confirm the report and state that great placer field? ha-\ c bet n located where the Jesuits of a hundied yoar-. ago found fortunes for the church. (Ircat excitement prc\ oils in mining centtes."