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pects ” await development. These mines 
have been known and worked since the 
Spaniards entered this part of Mexico. 
To the west of the hacienda flows the 
Casas Grandes River, flanked on either 
side by enormous old cottonwood trees ; 
while for a background rise the immense 
peaks of the Sierra Madres, covered with 
snow, and breaking into all sorts of fantas¬ 
tic shapes as they extend down toward 
the river. 
The Corralitos Company is owned 
mainly in the United States, New York 
capitalists being the principal stock¬ 
holders. 
While at Diaz City I had learned from 
Dr. W. Derby Johnson, the ecclesiastical 
head of the Mormon colonies in Upper 
Chihuahua, that at the lower colony on 
the Piedras Verdes River a number of 
