The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-10

Col Ramsey has been engaged in explorations
in the interior aud on the coast of the Plclfc
His discoveries have attracted considerable atten-
ten In Mexico, as his encounters with the rob-
bers were published in all the papers before his ar
Tival IN The city, So far as his geographical and
geological researches have extended he has m adj.
no secret OF them; but his projects in which 1t is
known that the government feels some interest,
have not been discovered. With the present fever
tor speculation IN this Guy, his descriptions have
afforded food for conversation, and his Charts
specimens, and statistics have been examined with
much interest. Some of his assertions are re-
marksbe, and will cause a little surprise in the
United States. HIS charts OF portions OF the coua-
try sre unlike IN several important particulars, the
European and American maps Of Mexico. For
instance, he declares that in the State Of Pueblo,
the river Nasca, rs II is called in the American,
and loper In the European maps, does not exist
But that the streams which are encountered at the
city of Puebla and Cholua run south and
parallel to near the meridian of Mescula, in
the state OF Mexico, when the Puebla stream
turns 10 the west and receives the other which
has passed CholuIa, Atalisco and Matlmoras
Alter these streams Join, they form the Poleano
rver. This river still continues Its course TO the
west, through the State of Mexico, and near to
thr city CT Mescala Ii has now been joined from
other tributaries pouring in from the north and
south, and changes ITS name to the Balzas. After
meeting The Zacatula, II pursues Its course, under
that name, into Michoacan and receives the wa
tiers of The RIO Grande of the south, and bending
10 the south, the Pacific the point of Ia
catula. As the boundary line is not correctly laid
down on the last maps published in the United
States, more careful description cannot be
given.
AS this statement is at variance with both the an
Gent and modern maps of Mexico his chart is a
curiosity. Here Is river almost Us long as the
OHIO, not laid down, and unknown in Europe and
America
His specimens of minerals are equally interesting
and novel. In The valley # this river there seem
10 abound immense and valuable mines of gold, of
silver, OF copper (wlth twenty per pure gold),
and cinnabar. The hill OF loadstone he says was
known at the time of the conquest, and he regrets
that he had no time to visit the veins of TIN and
Lead, which were worked three hundred years ago,
In the northern portion OF this interesting region.
But his discoveries do not stop with these mine
rails. His specimens of anthracite and bitumlnous
coal will be attractive In the United States In
relation TO this mineral, It now seems from his in
vest2ations, 10 be as abundant in Mexico as in
Pennsylvania. Below the Atlantic range of noun
talDs at fifty miles from the coast, the anthracite
coal fields are found and on the Pacific side the BIZ
luminous are equally plentiful.
whenever commerce requires these mines to be
worked, they will be accessible from Vera Cruz
and Acapulco; and on the Pacific side coal will
not be more expensive that II is IN New York.
company Is now forming in the city of Mexico,
composed principally of Americans, merchants,
and others of enterprise, to transport California
through Vera Cruz and Acapulco to San Francisco
In 80 days The stock required Is estimated at
$500, GOO, and is nearly all taken. II Is suppos-
ed that passengers with their baggage can be car
ried for $500. The road ftom Vera Cruz TO
Mexico is now in excellent order. The most ex-
tensive repairs have been made upon il by the indl
viduals to whom it belongs. The road TO Cuarna-
vaca has also been greatly improved The whole
distance will be made in stages and hteras in fit
teen days. The line would, II sad go into opera
ton soon as the rains and consequent sickness
were over in Vera Cruz. Possibly the first passen-
gers will leave New York in September. The as
ISOLATION is called the Atlantic and Pacific Com
pany, and they calculate on 10000 passengers
annually, We learn that the men composing 1t
can do all they profess to do, and the preparations
TO carry out their project on magnificent scale.
IL now takes from forty to sixty days to go in
which will be saved in the route taken by the com
pany, as well as a great distance on the Atlantic
eide. II is the calculation of a shrewd American
head, that railroad in Mexico will not pay in fifty
years.