Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-03
NEW sERIEs.-VOL. l. NO. IA.

d. ter that the application of steam power ,
,. the working Of the mines would great
is facilitate operations and render the bus
70 ness more profitable. The system
5. large companies, it Is thought, would a
7, SO be an himPOrtant improvement in Ii
i mode Of conducting the business, as
J. present the mines are mostly in Il
hands Of men Of limited means who a.
!, not able to undertake a large system
i arrangements.
s With regard to the trade ofthat repior
I some useful information is given, goin
r TO show that BY an interior route fror
5 the State Of Arkansas to chihuahua, tn
mining districts Of that department nigh
! be better supplied with goods than from
the Ports Of the Pacific. The annua
consumption of Chihuahua dues not fal
short of three millions; the supple.
come mostly from England, although the
nearest sea port on the Pacific is six hun
dred miles. distant, and the transporta.
tons is over difficult country. The
writer gives an account of an expedition
which he undertook with two other mer-
chants in April, 1889, with a caravan of
five bundled mules and seven wagons,
from Chihuahua 10 the frontier of Ar.
kansas. He says:
"Witbout any track whatever, and
trusting solely to chart and compass,
with which we were provided, we ex-
pected to encounter some obstacles 10
the passage of carriages, and were pre-.
pared with iron instruments for the pur-
pose of removing them. We feared that
we should meet with water only at great
distances, and that we and our animals
would suffer greatly from thirst. What
was our surprise, however, and with
what pleasure did we see the road level,
firm, and covered with pastures, with
streams at distances Of two, three and
four miles, and regularly supplied with
fOrds! Thus, sir, our new route is the
best and shortest that we could desire
between the two countries. We travel
ed generally from one water course to
another, where we passed the night, ap-
pretending that we might not meet anoth-
er at suitable distance. The greater
part of our stages were from 3 to 10
niles and few of Is. Accordingly we
observe, that from chihuahua to where
we reached Red River, about so miles
on the other side of Fort Coffee, cannot
exceed six hundred miles, and, conse-
quenIly, eight hundred miles to Fort
Smith or Van Buren, on the Arkansas.
eff the Government of the United
States would grant the drawback on
The merchandise which is exported BY
The new route, have no doubt that the
whole commerce of Chihuahua, in ali its
would be made through that {
part Of the United States; because they
might be imported as far as Fort del
NOrte IA place Of entry) in 40 or so days
in wagons, at less expense than from q
MatamUras and from the ports of the K
Gulf of California, on mules. However, I
am ofthe opinion that great part Of
what is consumed BY the States of Du- .
rengo and .Tacaticas. not less than four '
or five millions, could be furnished them !
~ the new road, at more moderate pri- t
'es than that at which they obtain them I
trough the same chanRel at chihuahua, t
It second hand, loaded with large COM I
MISSIONS, freights and great delays. So J
hat this trade might assume an impor- I
ance worthy of great consideration.
The cotton cloths imported into Mex i
20 are equal in amount to one-half the 8
alue of all the imported merchandise U
sed in that country; and 1t is stated that b
preference would always be given to
he cotton fabricks of the United States I
n account Of their superiority to the t
;nglish. These goods would constitute il
n important article Of the inland trade. r
hut i'll the opinion Of the writer draw. g
ack Is necessary On commodities thus s
npOfted into Mexico, without which the ii
afiic would not flourish to any thing n
ke the extent which it would other ii
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