The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-07

seldom exceeds ninety feet but II 10 variable and where
ven IL Is fifteen feet Some measurements have
gwen tho upper vein, in the San Juan de Dos Inc,
nine feet The entire measurement Of the three or
bearing veins averages thirty feet The MINES has
always been found, very easily kept free from water
alacaes being sufficient to drain the vein in the
dry season and eight or nine in the wet.
The Bernabe vein is situated between the veta-
discovered by the Spaniards II runs northeast with
inclination south. and ,raverses mountains OF
tase and for many years produced large quantities Of
silver. Its most productive mines have been Fan
Bernaoe Roadanera, Malanocae Guadalupe and Pere-
danera and Guadalupe mines, and such wers the
amounts Of silver taken from them that they
purchased shaft outside OF their limits paying ninety
thousand dollars for it, and this because made the
drainage a little more convenient This in 1890.
them, Blu, was reopened 10 l74o by Ygnaco Arrleta,
who, from the Chaverlstls gallery took single
week moro than six hundred thousand iollars In 1884
cura Rafael de las Pedras took the
three hundred thousand dollars and Antonio Tagos
took from the Peregrins gallery in the year. six
danera has given four onazas; and the last one taken
out In few weeks gave net profit OF one hundred
The Cantera vein 10 tho CITY, and trversss
the Bufa mountain In a direction north, 90 degs vest
From the point bends 70 the south, and associated
with the Quebrada vein Toe average thickness Of
the vein s thirty six feet but owing 70 the low yield OF
Its Ores which very abundant. IL has not been
yield OF the Cantera is from $50 10 $40 per ton
The mines, however, have ct times produced very
the owners received the title o Condo de santiago do Ia
Laguna He purchased enormous estates from the pro-
cesds, and accumulated from his mining properly
colossal fortune.
The Quebradia mine Is spur Of the Cantera vcin,
and here nature appears TO have been prodga Of her
expensive working. In 1897 company opened It and
derived profit. In Q short time OF $500, 000 Tn
Bordas ana Ansas' after u had been abandoned, re-
II produced them In this epoch than
$4,000 ooo Again abandoned, Il was, early in
who found II impossible 10 drain the mine With sixteen
maacates we'll served; and such the flow Of water
mat were spent IN .ne drainage before single
which this mine was worked at this epoch II may be
stated that there were employed thousand four
one hundred and thirty.nve IN the exterior works
There were, moreover eight hundred horses used for
the machinery, and these consumed annually eighteen
straw The mine at that time was producing about
thousand TONS Of weekly. the total expenses for
taking 1t out averaging $50, 600 per week.
visited the Quebradla mine a short time SINCE The
main shaft is just beyond the side of the Zacaecas
park, and many of the galleries are under the city.
and cling TO the main rope gradually lowered into
old mother earth. The shaft ABOUT six hundred feet
deep, and reaches to the floor oil La Luz The mine was
however below this TO depth OF nne hundred feet
There Is considerable water in the nine all tho galleries
were dripping but we're drained to the main shaft where
Cornish engine Of hundred and twenty horse power
effects the drainage This engine cost on the ground
Sl2OOO ana the cost per day OF keeping 10 running
$50. There are from five hundred to six hundred men
empoyed on the interior and exterior works The yield
OF the mine has averaged 100000 per year for
ten years. and has after reimbursng the ockholders
Tor the original OUTLAWS, paid them net profit Of
100000 annually. rhe extent of the mine is two
hoasand metres on the vein In one OF The lodes l
noticed that the wokmen getting that paid
5000 per ton; in others from $50 70 $160 per ton.
The average yield is $780, Much is worked that paws
but $40 per ton The average cost Of all hacienda
for extracting the metal is from S11 to $12 per ton
udng quicksilver. The orc Of the Queoradia held
In veins that run from one TO thirty six feet thick
Near the Quebradilla Is the Carncena. six hundred
feet deep After rembursng the original OF OPEN
holders The San Rafael on the same vein, Is doing
nearly we'll. The San Martin mine In the suburbs Of
the CITY, now worked by Dr. G. NJ. Provost, an Ameri-
can, from Philadelphia, Is paying at the rate 1t
is one OF the best mines in the whole district and
doubleday the best managed. Its very abund
ant, and average about hftyn dollars per ton. The
vetagraade muos, under an English Arm, also yield
ing splendidly; and although they have been very
much worked and require a very large capital to de.
veIop them successfully, there little doubt they
will provo M famous in the future az they in tho
past
being drained, and, from Of the upper galleries.
such promising ores found indicate another great
Many mines havo been worked In small way and
drained BY hide buckets or nalic1, until these
not buy the necessary machinery for pumping Among
these found the most promising OF all the Zacatecas
M "a ie san Doro e. Io
San Gonzao, No Pesada and Cayetano, on the San
Gonzao vein. The ores from these mines, which are
exceedingly rch average 500 per tom and abund-
ant while frequently large Quantities have taken
out paying from $500 to $500 per They have been
worked TO an average depth Of ono hundred and dfty
feet every mnc paying we'll TO the depth that the mis-
erable system OF drainage would permit
The following 10 tho amount OF silver produced ut
Zacatecas:-
From l64s to 1910. S5ss OH, $50
From Isl0 70 1918 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10000, 1853
From 1918 TO 1925. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 17el2475
FROM io<o 70 ioS< ................... ~ us. $40
Total 10 2S4 years $3.50, 043 1856
To this may be added average product
since 1882 OF 81 000. 000 which for thirty
i've years makes. I4O 600 O00
Making total product of............. $50 043 335
There are now some twelve IN mes actively worked
within radius OF i've IN les from miut aud these
are now producing about SIS SOC, 900 per year. Tho
coinage or the mint from TIT mines was the month
OF April OF this year Cls6sl, $500. 000 Were We TO
escaped coinage and has been smuggled out OF tn Q
country since the mines opened, We should find
that the Zacatecas district has produced since 15is
least 81 900, 600 900.
From careful estimate made by J. NJ. Bustamente In
1922 and corrected and repubshed in 1892 by G. de
Berees TO whose work am indebted for much OF the
above data 10 supposed that the average yield OF all
the Zacaecas since the discovery OF the mines has
been about $40 per ton This OF includes all
ores. Large quantities constantly taken from the
mines yielding from $500 to 81 900 per These are
counted the rst class Tho ord nary ores how
carse the reduction to the average above stated
here the Zacatccas mines give twice the
yield per averaged by the mines of the great Come
stock vein By Official report Gould and Curry averaged
for half Of 1893, $40 90 per ton: the savage mnc,
$40 S. yellow Jacket $50 81 Crown Point, s35 rs:
Hale aud Norcrcss, $43 IS The average yield OF the