The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-08

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- seen Of him here. He appears to be verv intel
4x4nt, and genesally has answered Questions in
straightforward way; but If questions were put to
eN In rapid Succession, FOR which he was not fully
the object of cross examination. know nothing
OF the object Of the counsel for the Defence and
cannot pretend to limit them in the manner asked
By the prosecution or TO ask them. before permit
question to be asked, the exact bearing Of which
do not Immediately see, to disclose their object.
Mr.. BaADLEY, 60 -witness.) Did Mr.. Barraean
hold office from the year 1S46 to the present
Ans. He believes he has had some commission 81
rank in the militia of the State; and besides this he
has held In the revenue department the Office Of
comptroller.
Cues. Ask him If the seal of San Luis potoa; has
been changed, and If 70, when?
Ans. He remembers the seal Of San Tp;a po+os;
being once changed in 1849. The seal of the sec
rotary Of the department was changed. and Also
that OF the governor.
CUES. When was the seal of the rovernmert
changed-in 1862
Ans. In August, 1916, in consequence of having
changed the name of San Luis Potosi from that q
a department" to that of . estate
Ques. Then the seal has been twice chanred3
-dns. From the year 1846--
Mr.. BRADLEY. Let him answer nv question it
10 a very simple one. and can be answered without
decentralization. Has the seal of the State been
twice changed?
Ans. He says the seal of the State has been
changed, az he has said, once In the wear 1s46 It
was not changed, because before that the State
was called department, and the department had
seal. 1t was changed from department to a
State, and then the State had one seal. which has
only been changed once
Cues. Was not San Luis State before It was
department?
.Ans. In the year 1924 it was called State.
Quss. How long did it continue State?
Ans. Until the year 1886.
year 1886 to 1886?
Question not answered.
CUES. Has be aver seen the seal of the State be.
fore the State was made a department?
Ans He has seen the seal used by the old fede.
ration.
Quss. Is that seal existing?
Ans. He does not know whether it exists or not
Ques Does the seal of 1876 exist?
Ans. 1t ought to exist, but he does not know
whether it does or not.
CUES When did he first become acquainted with
Governor Reyes?
An.. He cannot designate the exact date, but
he has known him since the year l84l, when he
arrived in San Luis Potosi.
Cues. Did Governor Reyes hold any public office
at that time?
CUES. What kind Of merchant?
Ans. He had bread-baking establishment.
CUES. Was Julian de los Reyes ever engaged in
mining3
Ans. He was.
CUES. At what time?
-Ans. About the year 1843.
Cues. For how long was he thus engaged?
Ans. He takes 1t that he has been engaged in
although in the latter years he abandoned his
mines and left them to the care Of his partner.
Cues. Where were these mines located?
Ans. In Guadalcazar.
Cues. When did he leave them?
Ans. In these last years, but he cannot designate
when. After having made fortune for himself
of $4,000 or more. he then delivered his mines
to his partner.
Cues. How long before he lived in San Luis Po-
tosi did he abandon these mines?
Ans. He says that he does not know that he left
off working them; but he left attending in person
on the mines.
CUES. At what time?
Ans: He supposes it must have been when he
took charge Of the government of the State.
CUES. Does he not know that he left these mines
before the year 1845?
Ans. He did not leave them before the year 1845
Cues. Did he leave them before the treaty of
peace?
Ans. He has said that he cannot positively fix the
date.
Cues. am aware of that, but am fixing PEI
RODS which may aid his recollection, SO that he
may determine whether 1t was before or after a
given period?
Ans That is what he cannot exactly say.
Cues. Did he hold any Office himself while Gov
ernor Reyes was working these mines!
Ans He does not know whether or not he had
an Office when Governor Reyes held these mines.
He has held Office when Reyes was governor of the
State.
GUS. Did Governor Reyes reside in Guadal.
caxar?
Ans. continued residences
Cues. Yes.
Ans. No: His partner, Richard Espinoso, lived
there, and Reyes made journeys, and returned.
Cues He says that Reyes was engaged in min
ing in 1843. When was he made governor?
Ans. In the beginning of lS47.
cues. What kind of mines were they in which he
was engaged
Ans. Quicksilver mines. He was the discoverer
of the quicksilver mines of Guadalcazar.
Cues. We're there no quicksilver mines known
there before he discovered them?
Ans. No. He was one Of the first discoveries.
He discovered very rich mines.
GUS. Ask him again whether any one had dis
covered quicksilver mines there before Governor
Reyes made his discoveries?
Ans. No. Although mines were not worked,
the ground was known being quicksilver
gion, because there mines existing of the old
times.
Cues. Did Julian de los Reyes denounce old
mine or discover new one?
Ans. He understands it was new vein he dis
covered.
Ques How long did it take him to make his for
tune theref
Ans. He might have made it in about ten or
eleven months, with all his expenses.
Cues. Ask him if there is a steam engine there?
Ans. None, nor tho sign of one.
Cues. Is there any iron machinery there!
Ans. 1t is not wanted. The quicksilver ores are
soft the earth.
CUES. want to know whether there is any iron !,
in Guadalcazar?
Ans. He believes not That is belief of his
own, because he does not know to what use they
could put it.
CUES. Is there not furnace in Guadalcazar in
which there are large iron retorts?
Ans He does not know whether they have ever
placed such retorts in Guadalcazar. He knows
that another miner tried them in the mineral town
of Durasno, but they had no effect.
Cues. want to know whether or not there are
large pieces of cast-iron used machinery in
Guadalcaxar?
Ans. In his opinion there is not, because he does
not know for what purpose they could be used.
CUES. Ask him whether or not there are in the
furnace at Guadalcazar nine large retorts of the
length of this tabe-say nine feet long, two inches
thick, and from eighteen inches to two feet in d.
of iron, and used in the furnace
under the direction of DR.. Tobinl
Ans. If such a thing exists he has not heard of
it. In order that question it is necessary
to have lived in Guadalcaxar for year or more.
Ques. Has Perex Geivez a mine in Guadaicazar!
Ans, He knows that DR.. Tobin agent for
Perez Gelves. that he had a mine there, that it
turned out badly, and that DR.. Tobin went away,
to Europe or California.
CUES l understand him to say that there ia no
authority which can take cognixance of a de-
nouncement of mines except the tribunal of mines?
Ans. He has said that already.
CUES. Ask him whether announcements OF mines
are not sometimes made in courts Of the first In
stAnce2
Ans. No, sir.