Sorry wolf, no raw hamburger or innocent damseles for lunch, but --:

You posted -->...."I thought Jim WAS Keegann".

Easily confused my long fanged, friend, both are bull headed. snicker

For those that are interested in the property up at Santa Ana , near Yecora, part of it belongs to Mexican and International History.

Don Jose de La Mancha

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The story of Tayopa and the Jesuit involvement in the north western part of Mexico and the US is a fascinating story of international intrigue. murder, and Jesuit famed secrecy, which still exists on any relationship or reference to Tayopa.

The Tayopa story has followed three developments. The first Tayopa was in the vicinity of Guaynopa / Guaynopita. Later they found an even richer zone, so they moved their headquarters to this area, just west of the present Yecora. They took the name of 'Guadalupe de Tayopa' with them and renamed this new mine 'Tayopa'.

" part of this zone is presently being developed by Jim voisin of 'First mexican Gold Corp".

As time went by, they found an even richer zone to the South East, and so moved their headquarters there. Again they took the name of Guadalupe de Tayopa with them and called this new zone' Tayopa'. The Santa Ana operation was renamed 'Guadalupe de Santa Ana'.

The new Tayopa is the one of the legend, the basis for Frank Dobies book "Apache gold and Yaqui silver". This is the one that I have. It was opened in the 1500's and was in Bonanza until the Indian uprising of the 1630's when it was closed. To date I cannot confirm that it was ever reopened, but, in any event the Zone was so rich that they opened various mines and established their head quarters there. These mines were not run by the Jesuits themselves but by their coadjutors. Thus they could honestly say that they did not own or operate any mines in Mexico. In this light the Mission priests were never involved in mining, in fact they probably never knew of this part of the Jesuit operations in Mexico, a sort of "need to know only " operation,

To feed this enormous amount of precious metal to Rome they established a system of way stations across northern Mexico, one day's travel apart by loaded mule, from the collection stations to a small bay just below Matamoros for trans shipment to Rome on Jesuit ships. The pattern was basically, a mule train would leave one way station for the other with a record of it's cargo. Upon arriving at the next way station, it would be compared to what was being delivered, placed in an underground chamber for the night, the men and animals would be fed, then the next day this procedure would be followed to the next one..A few of these unnamed way stations have been found with the last shipment still underground where it was left in 1767 when the order for the arrest for the Jesuits was enforced.

As time went by, this vast flow of metal was too great a temptation for the Jesuits so they formed a plot to take North America away from Spain with the Dutch. When the king of Spain found this out, it was the basis for his infamous expulsion of the jesuits in 1767, not for mining and not paying their taxes, but for insurrection. The form of carrying out this order confirms this. An instantaneous arrest of all Jesuits at a certain hour and date. For simple mining and tax violations etc. this would not be necessary since the Jesuit mission priests had no where to hide. They could have been arrested at leisure.

While the Jesuit society in Rome knew of it almost at the moment of the signing of this order by the King, they chose not to reveal this to the mission Priest, since to do so, would reveal the extent of their court involvement and intrigue so the Mission priest was considered expendable to protect their other interests and was rounded up with historical references.

The next period that Tayopa appears is during the French intervention in Mexico, Napoleon installed Maximilian as Emperor. This was for two reasons, one, he was after Tayopa to rebuild France. He had the French engineers plan a RR to Tayopa. This was being started when the revolution against Maximilin commenced. Part of this data was confirmed by documents, and by Carlotta, his wife, being the Daughter of the King of Belgium, who in turn had close ties with the Jesuit society in Rome, and Maximilian's personal advisor was a Belgium mining engineer sent by the King of Belgium. They had not found Tayopa when the revolution broke out, but with the documentation they had, it was simply a matter of time, they would have had it by the time the RR was completed to the area..

So there Tayopa sat, while hundreds of prospectors, Geologists, mining engrs, and adventurers searched for it, many losing their lives in the process. Even today there are groups forming to search for it, not knowing that I had 'found' it a decade ago.