Arizona weekly miner., 1875-07-16
WHAT I KNOW ABOUT MEXICO.

EDITOR MINER:-I have been feeling un-
 well for the last few days and not much
 like showing quill, bst will give you a short
 sketch of my travels in the Republic of
 Mexico. have been in every principal city of the republic, (with the exception of the
 City of Mexico), from Galajava north to the
 city of Cbihuahua and from there to Ures,
 the capital of Sonora, and on down to Mazatlan, the main seaport tewn of the State of Sinaloa. Of course your readers all know that Mexico is noted for its mineral wealth and productiyeness, but let us look at the life, habits, and enterprise of the people. Mexico is certainly one hundred years behind the times, they are deficient in railroads, tel egraphs and everything else in the way of enterprise, and I believe that Mexico has been degenerating ever since the war with the United States. It only requires tweHtv- fonr hours for them to revolutionize, fight and kill each other, and rob as though it was part of their religion.
 Durango is a beautiful city of some sixty odd thousand inhabitants, and when the bells in the Catholic churches commence ringing yeu could not hear yourself think. They are worse than gong on one of those Pacific steamers in the morning when one would like to sleep. From Durango to Chi huahua there are some parts of it good country, with nice little villages or towns. Chihuahua is nothing extra as a city, narrow streets and principally one-story build ings, but they have very fine church and probably forty thousand inhabitants.
 From Chihuahua on to Mesilla, in the State of Sonora, is wild country, most of it. went through towns that looked as though they were once inhabited by several hundred people, but when passed through not soul was living near them.
 The Mexican people are very much de- voted to the Catholic religion and their churches are magniicently constructed and very fine. lived in the republic for more than one year, and never was able to get correct number of the feast days they held in year-somewhere in the neighborhood of three hundred and sixty days was as near as could guess.
 They work their mines by the slowest pro- i cess, and p!ow their corn with forked stick | It is good day, good devil, God send Sunday, with them, and yet they love freedom. They think all and all of their country and you could not convince them that it would be | better for them and their country to be gov erned by the laws of the United States and | have protection for their lives and property and be rid of wars among themselves. We know they are not capable of self-govern- ment. and it is the opinion of many persons and writers that the United States will take Chihuahua and Sonora for their indebted ness. would not like such an arrangement. Take the republic,-let the government be rid of paying out millions of dollars to pro- tect her people on the Rio Grande, which she has done for years and will continue to do until the Stars and Stripes wave in the breeze in the City of Mexico. Let us con- struct railroads for them, put up telegraph lines, establish free schools and put them on the road to fortune and happiness, so that her people would feel proud of her, and when one of Great Brittain's subjects, or any