G'morning Hard luck, your coffee is ready, join me.
The gentleman that filed on Los Remedios, did not know that it was one of the Tayopa group, just that it was a rich antigua - old - gold mine.
To get to it, he had to tavel through extremely rough, rich minerslized country, which was bandit saturated from the revolution days. A version of "how are you going to keep them down on the farm, after they have seen Gay Paree" from WW-1. they woudn't return to their farming .
He traveled though very rich country to eventually end up at Tayopa, where, after making friends with the local Indians, they led him to the partially collapsed portal of Los Remedios.
He then returned through that rough, bandit infested country to Hermosillo, talked a suveyor into returning with him, surveyed the property, certifying that it was of economic value, then they returned to Hermosillo.
This was an adventure in it's own right, worthy of a book.
He never returned, always hoping that things would calm down, but they ever did, until just before I started exploring the region. The property was eventually declared free for further filings due to lack of tax payments in 1923.
He was from Oklahma city, nothing more has ever been developed, although I do intend to follow this up soon. Who was he? What was he like? What happened to him that he never returned?
I found his old momument marker and was successful in developing the faint remains of his writng enough to warrant a trip to Ocampo, the local mining region office. See attachment #1. Original as I found it, #2 is where someone else had cleared the momument of brush, but the data is no longer visible.
At that time the road to Ocampo had just been renovated by the gov't , but still it was an adventure in itself. When I went to the office it was closed. I finally located the agent, a lovely gal, and she graciously opened the office for me. It seems that the mining division of Mexico was closing down many of the outlying offices. She had packed all of the mining records of almost 100 years in very dusty cardboard boxes which were to be sent off within the next few days..
I spent the next 5 hours covered with dust, searching the old records, before finding his filing.
So I had his survey data, I know knew exactly with in a meter or so, of the entrance to Los Remedios, but it still wasn't time to call attention to Tayopa so it remained status quo.
In fact it is still so.
Will have to tell you of the similar 11th hour reprieve in securing the title of Tayopa itself ehehe, and of the return trip from Ocampo when the 7 th of march thingie was seen quite clearly.
Don Jose de La Mancha
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