We found wagons hauling the mineral down the hill and returning empty, and in the mines quite a number of Sonora miners were blasting and driving for the beautiful ore (cinnabar).

It was then, and is now, a most valuable mine.

The adit of the mine was at the apex of the hill, which drooped off to the north.

We rode along this hill, and saw where many openings had been begun, but these, proving of little or no value, had been abandoned.

Three miles beyond, on the west face of the bill, we came to the opening of the "Larkin Company." There was evidence of a good deal of work, but the mine itself was filled up by what seemed a land-slide.