New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-14
LETTERS ON NEW -MEXIC0u.NO, |.
mtve,aI wealth OF the Territory = second
only 70 California.
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like ours Of The Union, are wide OF the marx
Locked I'd in mountains and deserts SIS il by Ma
lure, and its borders forever brstling with ths
aDoes Of hostile Indiana, it was to feeble, inert
Mexico. ike silver casket Of vast, u1c0unted
treasure in the grasp OF q dragon She bad n@l'hei
the daring no: potency to face the encounter ana
win the prize With our bold, entefPH'lns sod
powerful Union lies The magic force to diaenthra'
.bis enchanted land and pour the light oil IN
telligence into the gIltefing depths o! nef ore
csverns.
grant YOU full leave to smile incredulty now
II vo1 will consent TO ember .his prediction 81
The dsy il calls for fulfllment New-Ae&loo-I
hope in Its day Of ederaI baptism they viii ma
better nsme. and keep it out Of the class OF NeR-
etc gtetes-but that region we now term New
Mcxico will, when admitted as State, rank
,,e41 IN California in mineral 1csath. The har-
yssts Of her mountains will DO in aiming coin
They are there and are only waiting the hour and
toe men to bring them forth in copiouE abundance
Every practical miner, every scientific man who
bss visited the country concurs in the almost uni
yersal presence OF silver In those huge Valleys and
assures that furrog the mountains With their daep
wrinkles. Copper lsys about visibly at the eur
face, in great masFeE, west OF Albuquerque, and
other places; not 10 mention host OF other miner
as Of high yslua in commerce and the arts, which
are heaped up In these stern and sterile hills as IN
wnrslo uses, ia quantity and purity hitherto un-
,v,noc,cd in the moss favored mineral regions.
silver however, il the prcdomineting gift, aud AR
GysrA should be the name of New Mexico, for she
a. or sil BE- the silver State as undenisbly as Cal
ilornis lie the golden enc. There is ths oliEeronoe
in the gathering Of the ustats-snd this in her
former lswess, unprotected state, placed au
inlpagsihle chasm between the nine hac
yests of New Mexico and the Capitalists
who done rad the power 20 make them fruitful
God is found in particles and Jumps ss II sHeated
up from the depths OF its primitive layers through
the pores and qualifications Of The earth in pure
fever drops, in the fervenoy OF those Tui5hty vol.
clnc commissions which precsdeg mans history.
Silver coursed up in fuller and more connected
ldea through the wounds and riffs OF the heaving
earth, but boiling stresnets melted and carried
with them In their flow large sloyE OF the baser
miuerGls. Silver cooled In veins that meander
through the mountains, cast up by the same earth
Quake thrOes that scared the precious metals from
their lower depths, and these veins sre always
adulterated by foreign substances, and often 80
overpowe fiDgly that there Ia not enough silver
present 10 pay for their working. To follow up
these ipto the Garth and protecute their lehc Tor
hundreds Of feet beloa She surface; to break up
tbs nike d minerals fused and baked by voc&nlc
beat; TO aepGrate purify, recess: aud prepars for
market the pure silver Is an affair oil scloDce and
capital very different FROM taking up pan OF
earth and washing from it the graduated god.
Strong arms and willing heart is sufficient cap
ita for the sdventurer in the gold degings. The
required art 10 soon learned there. Silver demands
q more complicated preparation, bus when that
preparation Ia once made the returns are sure aud
bs ample as In the gold fields The English com.
paniea who employed the requisite capital and
science to pump ont some water flowed and aban'
,)oued mines in Mexico have realized miliona from
| Investments Of thousands Thls capital thls
| soieuce this system, can now be applied to the
country On and west OF the upper Rio Bravo under
this security OF strong and stable Government.
Thia region will now have what 1t 20 much needed,
an outlet and inlet through safe and friendly
untry This want has repreHsed and hemmed IN
her resources lik she iron baru OF cage, bnt now
cur Government must ex anime and indicate routes
OF communication between tho old StGtes ana the
Pacific, and the most direct route mist aklit the
silver REGION Capital or associated lQbor the
bett and most productive capital that can be en-
Dloyed in mining, will pause on its way TO study
and develop the immense capabilities OF NeW-
Mexico II an accurate comparison can 90 lnstl-
tuted il would probably be discovered that the
silver mines Of Mexico have returned more liberal
profits In proportion TO the capital employed, than
the sold nines, though there has been no applies
tlcn 10 the overwhelming returns Of California. 1t
simply infers, that as capital Is applied in larger
proportion in silver than in gold minen, the capital
ist hsR the sursg advantage in the former
Esgle PAS ir not in the mining region; IKE the
Seminole Chief, Wild Cat, it eis in the gates aud
asks tdines Of the day Gill; while IN no way
personally concerned in New Mexico or her for
tunes, til impogaible not to note the unanimous
concurrence Of every kind and claFa OF authority
in testimony Of the teeming mineral wealth of the
Whole regon north and weat Of u.s. The poverty
md Ds NJ the neOnle In kufnI0S il To account
s about az unanimous. give one example, and
rather a favorable one, from my own knowledge.
Vest OF and ct no great distance from Eagle Pass
10 valuable and we'll known ailver mine, owned
by physician. Spic& Of pure silver, the size OF g
mans little finger, frequently occur in the veins,
and altogether 1t is rich and productive mine, but
it is subject to the great evil OF all mines that are
puzzled TO any depth-the principal lesdg are Sub
merged and tbs water has to be continually
pumped out 1t iE now done by mule power and
the mine iE languidly worked ENTHUSIASTICALLY
when the professional duties OF the proprietor are
not pressing. The expense OF s proper pumping
apparatus and its osher concomltGDts, would cost
from SIS 600 to $40 000--snd this Last Is large es
innate, which could soon be raiEed from the Minis
itself under vigorous management, but neither the
Doctor nor anybody else among the MexicanS will
do anything with it until some European miner
CONES along and takes it off hia hands. Than, az
in SO many other instances in Mexico, fhe udicious
application Of few thousand dollars in machinery
and Il reasonable amount of Systematic effort will
convert this neglected mine into Z steSdy fortune
ef thousands year. There are ten thousand
such openings in New Mexico and when ii can do
go with security the means Of development will
Coz in and this Territory Of little value will be
come the second mineral State in the Union.
CORA MONTGOMERY,
JENNY LIMBS CHARITY CONCERT AT BosroS-
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