Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-09-09

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! pc citing. "NeFer mind, Don Miguel,
sal d the bronzed old woman, "yol
I shall have lrhiae yet that will max
i yo a a rich MAN, Notwithstanding al
J 20 ar present troubles, and which vii
| not onlylenable you to pay all You
Z debts, but leave you rich man int
the bargain. These rahlarks 50 Of
ten repeated, only drew a deep sigl
from 0 on Miguel; and although
there wa 5 an earuestness in the tout
and manner of the old w1man, little
or no attentio q was paid to them
and they were no sooner uttered
Tia Il forgotten At length she died
sol hewhat suddenly, and on her death
bed charged her only son Ga woodcut-
ter, who gained his livelihood by Car
Fryihg wood from the .cerro' to the
tow ND to inform the unhappy Don
Miguel, what S he had always intended
to have done herself, Qor from some
I'm known motives or perhaps former
kindness, she was grateful to him,
and determined to save him from
what he clearly confessed was incyi-
table ruin, although she well knew
her doing so would meet with the dis
appreciation of all her Indian race.0
that, in The "cerro" of ChanarcilIa,
some eighteen or twenty leagues to
1 the southwark and eastward of the
town Of Copiapo, there existed sill
Iver vein, unknown to any person ex-
leept herself ana her son, and which
She had often referred to in their
conversation when he called to rest
himself at her hut during his numer-
gus journeys to and from the mine
and the villa.
|. The son, in compliance with the
charge of his dying mother, made
known her wishes on this subject TO
Don Miguel, who Immediately ac-
companied him to IChanarcilIa, for
the purpose of inspecting the lode
already mentioned, but with little ez-
pectation of sec ing any thing like its
boast(d riches; but what must have
been Ills establishment Oh his arrival
At the "cumbre' or summit Of the
Hill, to find a solid mass OF silver
Standing about two feet above the
surface Of the tony ground, with
cross rudely carved GA the metal.
Tradition says the!knowiedge Of this
vein had been handed down in the
family from father to son, and from
generation to generation, who each
in lis turn vowed, on kissing the
cross, never 10 mike known or Gis !
cover its situation to a white man.
The once surrounding "caxa% or
walls ef the lode after Il succession Of
ages, had decomposed and fallen from
the silver, which stood alone, beau I
tiful and splendid sight to the as
UNHAPPY and almost blo-
keH-hearted old miner, WHO gazed on
il silence upon the white, metallic
mass. He turned Immediately to
the town Of Copiapo, where be took
out a .spedimentp' or document with !
out loss of time, giving a iegal right
to the discovery, and called the mine
ia Descubridora," by which name
ithas long been known il Ghanarcilla,
and up to the present day retains its
fimefor the abundance of rich silver
ore it produces. From this date
Don Miguel became rich and al
tered man, and the nervous debility
Of bott body and mind with which
be had been for some years afflicted
caused by poverty; distress and anx-
iety of mind, left him entirely.
The discovery of such immense
riehes in the "eerro' of Chaaarcilla
soon spread far and wide over the
Southern and neighboring districts !
If Huasco ana Coquimbo, and also
the provinces Of Cayo, on the East
era side of the Cordillera de los An
les, oneof the g united provinces of j
3aenos .Ayres where it is said, in La
2ioja and Fumati ina, rich silver MIN
rail deposits hay E been mi ct with.
From 5000 I'd 6,O00pfrsons from
he provinces soon hurrlI led to the {
pot, where they lived under the
tents, on phrt Of the
liIl, which in the mineral pf Chanar-
lila, is called s.Las Capas" to this /;
lay. Llrge masses OF itch native
liver. Of an almost Incredible size,
we're fbupd b these persons III every ]
at the foot as well as at the
ummit Of the .eerro; and the en-
Of bar silver, {ncarly pare
rom Copiapo to Valparaiso has since 5