Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-06-22


blows with stake and uses his back for
wagon. One Of the McCormick's
reapers would exterminate this race in
a year.
RELIGION.
The people Of Mexico, Indians and all,
are Catholics, devotedly. There is no
slavery by law in Mexico, but plenty Of
it by custom; the Indians are whipped
over the blacks; There are 143 seperate
tribes in Mexico, and some thirty castles.
CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE.
There are only two seasons in Mexico.
AS there is not enough rain, the people
depend on irrigation. and spend much
money in forcing wheels and aqueducts.
The corn lands yield twenty-e ght bush
els for one but in good places, eighty
bushels for one The roads are bad,
owing to frequent wars and transporta
tion is carried on by caravans of mules.
Corn sells for from one dollar to two
dollars for every one hundred and fifty
pounds, there is no national market to
fix the price Of products. Birds, blight,
and fungus are the enemies Of Mexican
maize Ip the hot districts, the banana
grows bountifully. Humbolt says that
an acre Of wheat will supply three
men, but an acre Of bananas will supply
fifty. Mainoc, rice, olives, grapes, cap
sicum, are also staple products All
oar United States vegetables grow there,
the tomato being prodigious, and the
frizol, or brown bean, as big as pret-
EEL Pulque is the common drink we
mention this for the benefit of our ould-
be soldiers; it is made of the aloe. and
stands for our whiskey. The sugar plan
tations of Mexico rank among the finest
in the world coffee is also cultivated
a single tree frequently producing TWEEN
tyeight pounds.
GOLD AND SILVER MINES
The mines of Mexico have been wrought
from the earliest periods The early
| Mexicans before Cortcz knew how to
prepare them, and mined them precisely
as we do. They poss+ ssed, even then,
gold, silver, lead, tin, copper, and cinna-
bar, and used metallic currency, which
we do not do at present The mining
districts are divided into eight groups
all placed on the western slope of the
great Cordilera, occupying a space Of
twelve thousand square leagues. or one
tenth Of the whole extent Of the country
Tobacco and indigo, wax and cotton,
are indigenous. La 1858 there were
fifty-three cotton factories in the repub-
lie, with one hundred and thirty one
thousand two hundred and eighty spin
dies The water-power Of the country
is abundant The vanilla bean grows
wild there; ialap, cocao cochineal and
silk are in excess of the industry to get
them The semi-slave industry Of Mex
leo has ruined it. Under wise dispen
sation the fruits and products Of the land
would improve to a great degree.
COMMERCE AND NAVY
| Mexico has no commerce whatever.
not merchantmen, nor a navy a Yam
koe skipper going there, and buying out
plantation could soon become peer
Under the Spanish domination. the Mex
lean mines produced annually twenty
| three million dollars worth Of silver. and
three thousand five hundred pounds av-
erdupois Of gold The ,Mexicans mined
better than we have done We attempt
to use excellent machinery. but it can
not be transported on the backs of
mules, and most mining operations con-
ducted by Americans Rave failed there
Humb"lt says that '.when these su-
perb countries enjoy perfect peace, new
metallic deposits in quantities will be
discovered and developed =
A single family, that Of Zagoaga, de-
rived in five months from a small mine
out cropping, $4,O00,0O0, and one Juan
Flores, priest, in patato patch got
$3, 100000.
The Zaecatecano- Mejicano Mining
Company Of Frisuillio produced in 1871,
S1.o20, ,ll3, at cost Of S76l, 800 -
There were only one hundred and twen-
ty shares in it. Almost all the rich
Mexicans have been made so through
their mines. The total silver coinage
of Mexico in three hundred and four
teen years was 81, 667. SIS, S51.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
In 1915 our imports from Mexico
amounted to S9.490. 000; exports in the
same year, 50 028.000 Mexico i'm
ports linens, cotton goods. silks. wool-
ems, millinery, paper, glassware, quick
silver, and liquors. Business is carried
on by fairs to a great extent.
IMPRuY EMENTS.
There are no railways in the country
of consequence 4 road from Vera Cruz
to Mexico could be built for $3.50
| 00o.
FINANCES.
Nine per cent. is the government in
terests there of loans ordinarily. S25.-
| 100000 year was the common nation,
al expenditure, before the conquest of
Maximillian making national deficit of
seventeen million year,