Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-12-09
A RIVAL GOLD REGION.
FROM THE houston (rrx4s) TELEGRAPH.

! FHoM THE HOUSTON ITExAsl TELEGRAPH
The public mind has been lately greatly with III,
Of the wonderful productions of the gold region
California but may credit the traditions Of the Indians
and the historical records of the Spana the gold region
Texas the Rio Puerco, rich in the precious metals
the celebrated mines of Feather River, in Alta Cali
onia 1t is the vague traditions of the Indians only mol
the records OF the Spanard that attest the value of the mines
OF Pueco The ruins Of extensive city reared in ancient
days. like the famous Tadmor Of the DESERT rise in lonely
grandeur in this wild region, and bear silent but positive te
mony that something than agriculture was the basis Of
Its prosperity In the midst of wild and almost sterile
gon the urre SPIRES and domes of this populous city
still remain, but destitute OF thing that betokens civilized
life. The wild deer, antelope and mustang brouse the her
bage which uxuany in its deserted Streets and the
savage Camanche Koway pitches his rude lodge beneath
is now dismanled rampars This city is the Gran Quvra
OF the Spanard and founded after the conquest OF
Mexico by Cortez II is well established fact that the
Spanads penetrated into this region and established flourish
ing settlements at very early day and almost Immediately
after the city OF Mexico and adjoining provinces We're
nzed into Spanish vceroyay The Spanards of that day
were not stimulated by desire acquire agricultural wealth,
and they made few settlements in districts that destitute
OF valuable mines OF the precious metals Their conquess all
had one obect-mneral treasures. Gold and silver were
sought for in ell parts of the New World where their
could penetrate The country around Gran Quvra arid,
woodess plain and there spring water stream within
ten miles OF the city, There Of cultivated fields
For what object then hesehuge erected The
answer must be found in the character Of the Spanish
qberos and their history They erected for mining pu
poses There is still tradition current among the Mexicans
that there several millions of pounds of gold and silver
collected at this city, when the terrible instruction OF the
Indians broke out in the month Of August 1850. The city
was surrounded by immense army Of ndans and after
long siege all the inhabitants murdered except two, who
escaped tell that the inhabitants had been slaughtered and
that the immense treasures of gold and silver buried in
the ruins An of this lately published in
the Maamoos Flag and need not make further COM
mens respecting it. Our here show that there
positive evidences that there rich mining region the
Puerco and hope, by calling the attention of enter
prsDg felowcizens the subject induce of them
TO explore this region and possibly they may be rewadedw
as full success that which has attended the explorations in
California The chain of granite mountains that stretches
southwark from Taos to the mouth of the Pueco, resembles
In its geological features the chains of the Anahuac
tans that contain the richest gold mines Of Mexico Several
Pacrs have long been worked in these below Santa
Fe and large quantities Of gold in small grains have been
washed from the aurerous sands in the valleys that traverse
them This country the home OF the Aztecs previous to
their migration to the capital of the Montezumns and it pro-
babe that they first learned the of working gold mines In
this region The traces of their ancient cities still found
extending from the Pueco by the Casas Grandes, beyond
Chihuahua westward to the Pacific As the Spanards, SO
after the capture of the city of Mexico pushed
quests directly into this region may be regarded an ndl
cation that they considered this country the I'll Dorado from
which most OF the immense treasures of the Montezumas were
drawn The Indians knew that the thirst for gold that
acuaed the Spanads their conques and they concealed
their mines that had stimulated their oppesso to invade their
county The mines OF California, those of Chihuahua, and
and those OF the Puerco similar each other and the
geological formations, far ascertain, similar
The mines of California have been less worked than those OF
chihuahua, and this may be the that they at
sent more productive This may be the also with the
PQeerS Of the Pueco and future explorations may reveal in
the desert regions of Northern Texas the true Ell Dorado
that the Spanards induced seek for by the Indian ira
ditons but which the Indians although exposed TO excruat
ing fortunes, would never reveal.