Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-06-17

the city there is vacant ground, and as
dry as the city itself, which may be- had
almost for the taking. I was riding out
with friend one evening whenhe show
ed me square containing between five
and six acres, just in the rear of the Pla,
"a de Toros on the outskirts of the city,
and not more than half or three GUAR
ters Of mile from the public square,
which he had just purchased for four
hundred dollars. Why these lots are
no, improved and the city extended, ]
cannot easily comprehend.
PRODUCE OF THE MEXICAN
MINES.
The produce of the mines of Mexico
is qate as large or larger, now than any
other period, taking an average of ten
years, but nothing so profitable to the
proprie.ors, owing TO the immense in
vesln,fnts in machinery, and the greater
labor of raising the ores now compared
with the rude and inexpensive machin-
cry before used, and the comparatively
small labor Of taking out he ores. The
company which now owns the great mine
of Real del Monte have, in the last few
years, expended, in machinery and other
ways, several million of dollars. The
shaft of that mine is nearly thousand
yards deep Baron Humboldt gives the
gross produce Of the mines Of Mexico,
from 1000 10 1903, both years inclusive,
as amounting TO 81 35S, ,452,o2o about
twelve millions OF dollars per annum.
The highest amount, which was in the
yeal 1896. was S26 644,566. The pro-
duce oflhe year 1904 he slate at S24,-
100000. Mr.. Ward estimates the an
nual produce, for a few years prior to
1910, at S24 100000 After that period:
from the revolutionary condition Of the
courtry, it dwiudIed almost TO nothing
in one year TO three and Il half millions
Of dollars. The official returns for ehe
year 1912 exhibit an exploration Of gold
and silver, as registered at the Custom
Ii61se, amounting to SlS, ,500,O6U.-
The facility with which large values in
gold may be concealed, and thus clan
deslinely exported, and the temptation
to do so from The high duty o.! six per
cent on expectation, caused very large
amount 10 be smuggIed. That this was
extensively prac,iscd was known 10 every
one in Mexico. To torn any accurate
estimate of the amount of the exports of
specie, very large addition must be
made on this account. Three or four
millions would scarcely cover it. Add
10 these the amount retained in The
country, and il will be very safe to as
sumo the present produce ofllle mines
from twenty-five TO lwenly-four mil
lions Of dollars per annum. The whole
amoun, coined at The mint in the city of
Mexico since The Conquesl is s443, 900,
ooO. since 1000, S205 ,96S, $50. Mi
ming in Mexico, as every here else, is
Il ganr of chance aud, like all games
of chance, there are many more losers
than winners amongst those who play
at it.
It's risking very little to say thai if
Mexico was Inhabited by our race, The
produce Of lhn mines would be at least
five times as great as it now is. There
is not IA mine which would not be wor ked
and as many more new ones discovered.
In five years, with such population,
and only with an equal number with that
which Mexico now has, do not hesitate
10 assert that the mineral and agricul.
tural exports alone would nearly equal
all the exports of any other country Of
the world. The last time I examined
the tables npon that subject, the whole
exports Of the produce of British labor
was about two hundred and sixty MIL
lions of dollars per annuln. Mexico, in
the possession of another race, would
approach that amount in ten days.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Abiding to the bonita, or yellow fe-
yer, General L. say that according to
the estimate of those most entitled 10
confidence, less th'n five per cent Of
those attacked die. This estimate does
not include the patients in the hospitals,
for The reason that the general terror Of
being sent to tire hospital is so great,
that many are deferred from applying
for relief until their cases are beyond
the reach of remedies. Some facts came
under his observations which went very
far TO shake his confdence-never very
great-in medical theories. The uni-
versal treatment of yellow fever, by lhe
Vera Cruz physicians, is very simple,
and certainly y not very unpleasant-it is
nothing more than cold application to
the stomach. and lime iuice and sweet