The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-04-02

els are filled with silver, gold, quicksilver, copper,
iron, and all sorts OF miRe rails Coal is also found IN
some parts there thousands Of streams OF water
with healthy for drink and waters their rich
plains Of wheat and grain during the dry season.
The largest and airest Estates all over the country
said TO belong to the church, does in fact very
large portion Of all the fine improved property in the
whole republic IL is estimated by the most sensible
in the country, that the value OF the property
belonging TO the church is between eight hundred
and thousand million Of dOlars-dlvided as fol-
lows:
Their planta,ons and farms. SOamill.
Their real estate, houses and churches, 800 "
Their gold and silver, in coin, in images,
candlesticks, paintings, affairs, &c. &c, 3o0 "
800 mil
lions of dollars. The interest such an amount Of
gold and silver alone is enough 10 mpoverish nation
If the country was peOpled by any other race than
those now occupying il, il would be the most pro
ducve and richest of the world II has greater nau
raj resources and more of them than any other spot
Of earth.
The immense quantities of silver and gold in the
churches sufficient to impOversh the balance OF
the earth, and to make the Benton drops scarce
Oh, that we had some of it here in these hard times,
for the loan bill 10 be founded on How easy II
would il be to borrow the money then
The silver mines, or at least the larger ones are
worked mostly on English account. Real DelMon
te, the celebrated mine Of Mexico, and once
the richest nine in the world, and the mine they say
Sir Francis Barring was engaged in, Is now be.
ing worked to profitable advantage The amount
of silver made there is from eighty to one hundred
thousand dolIare per month. They have. gone to an
immense expense in putting up five or six immense
large engines, and ! am informed the company are
some four or five millions in debt. They have not
made any thing for some year, until very lately but
they have opened new shaft and find the vein We
ry rich indeed. The mine belongs to the estate OF
an old Spanish Don. called the Condo RegIa. AS
foreigners not allowed to hold real estate, 1t Is
leased at very small sum for great number OF
Fee AzAr El,ocr ftn
establishment or farm, the Spaniards call 1.-The
pascienda, is one OF the very richest and hnest Oh
Mexico.
There isa great numbero of small mines al. around,
in the vicinity of Real del Monte which are worked
by the old Mexcans and Indians, and the silver ls
melted out in the old Indian fashion ; it is very
simple operation, and it is enormous the quantity OF
silver that is made by these small miners. These
mines are worked by horse power, and as soon as
they get too deep 10 be worked to advantage, they
are abandoned, and new shaft sunk. The veins
generally run north and south, but there are some
times veins running east and west and when vein
is once struck, they can take the direction, and go
of some miles, and open new shaft with most
perfect certainty OF finding the same vein.
The miners are paid much better than any other
aborers of the country. They are paid 80 cents per
day, and tenth Of the mineral they raise, which
they sell.
They are a poor, mise inble set of beings, (the
miners, and 60 down in the mines and remain there
five or SIX days without ever coming up; they then
come up and DO not go down again until all their
money and mineral is gone; they then are ready to
60 under ground again.
This country is SO rich in every thing that it would
take year to enumerate its vast resources, and did
the Angle Saxon only have sufficient hold on II
to make an impression on its works, il would cause
the whole world to wonder at its wealth.
You ought to 60 down there and look at 1.-THE
women Of the country are much very much superior
TO the men in every respectively are as fine formed
women as are in the world, and have a particular
ondness for having foreign husl ands, but TO marry
them you must adopt their religion and customs. r
can't write you any more for the present, tor II
vantages fear there would be too many want to go
there and it for these hard Tines
even to mention gold and silver makes tears come In
our eyes.