Between 1906 and 1908, González Salas participated in the Yaqui Wars as chief of expeditionary columns and fought in Sierra del Bacatete on July 25, 1906, Aguaje y la Burra on July 29, San Lorenzo y El Tunal on December 29, Los Arrayales on May 1907, and Algodones Canyon on April 26, 1908. On July 4, 1908, he marched to the Bacatete camp where, on behalf of the chief of the 1st Military Zone, he began talks with the ringleader Luis Buli to obtain the surrender of the Yaquis but was unsuccessful with this.
