Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-06-07
The Famous veta Szadre Lode.

The lode was discovered by til
= carly Invaders on the Is h day o
April, 1858. Its pr~d duct of silve
4 WAS at one time so great that it WA
j., the cause of political discussion ant
an army has at all times been sta
toned near Guauajnato.
For fourteen mics this geological
wonder traver>cs the mouutuins, tn
crevice showing at its most remote
= discoveries the same comma ding
app tnrance that Distinguishes ii at its
largest and richest openings As fan
north us ProyIdentia, The mineral is
identical with that q Gurndjuato,
while he great works of Sircta upon
the south proves conc lu-lvcly the
power IF the vein here is no per
cepiible difference in any of the ex-
pl0red ore lOdes, the mineral of
Falenciana is the mineral of Rayas,
berg that clIss known a free MIL
ing ore, which has made The name
OF Nevada known to millions in
mi"ing circles. l speak couscien
tldu-ly When state that in my esti>
mutton the mineral DO lies of the
Neta Madre are c,ntInuous for its
ent re length Alth 1ugh broad as
serti"n .nSidering the flbuIous
am UNITS ready extrac ed, | hold Ia
the belief that the prnsp r ty of this
vein has not yet pas, it i fan V
The mines have never been worked
or explored in the manner their mag
nitude demands, AMI today their
m 'thods of opera ions are the same
they W. re 200 years ago, which can
scarcely b. credited, for in this, the
"Ce fury # Advance" there should
be 10 such toll and suffrriny< as |
have seen during my recent visit.
Upon this vein there are 1 100 men
emp oyel il picking upon their
backs, from the depth of 900 feet,
the or of the mines, and | do 1t
do our mr2hi .ery full justice when
l say that ten men, with hosting
power, can raise more ere than this
army OF slaves, for 1t is. but a system
Of slavery.
The vein is worked in the most
miserable manner imaginable, and |
so compiler ed arc the works that |
Were person 10 lose himself, he |
would die IL horrible death, for there
are bat small chances OF his ever |
secin" the light of day again. In |
the Valenciaua AMI Rlyas min
there are over 5000 works, nggrc ga
Ting fully ninety miles OF drifts,
slopes, tunnels ard cross cuts, SO
g"u"ed and cut up that The cltacombs
of Paris are scco11 Try.
These whrls extent over an area
of 4.500 feet in length, b. an average
os 400 feet in d -plh (calcul.ing
the two mines togcthcT; the width
varies; the average ore loa Is in R "
are 300 feet, carrying a DO y Cf
ore IN places The entire distance, and
where SUCH was the C sc the work
inss are bs>t described by ccmpar-
ing them with the cells II honey
comb the intervening ground be
tween the executions are m IS .es of
ole, While among the refuse in the
dark and gloomy corrid 'rs the ara
millions of cargoes of valuable
mineral. The emi-ent Francisco
GleI ME, the director -in-chi,f OF
thee mine-. Informed me that in
C ming out some pas ages b, tive,
MelladJ and Rayas he extract
so, eco cargocs OF ore that had been
left n the cells by the old Spaniards,
and it his opinion, also that OF
Ygnacio YDarguengoila, director of
Rayas, that in Vaienciana, Mellado
and Rayas there arc to-day full So
100000. not To mention the amOunts
in The intervening bodies.
These old wor kings have exposed
bodies Of mir eral of magn ,tude
never equnlied, and if there is 10 be
discovered the myIhol,g cal fnun-
tain that will cIusc silver to lose its
commercial value, l think it will
prove to be the 'Veta Mrdre" 1t is
a in that $50 years of steady W. rk-
i G by thousands through a raj n of
terror, war AMI famine, his never
ceased to send to the world
stream "f glittering metal, and is to-
day producing millions, annually
giving work to ten III rusand men and
t>si ting IL town of si\ty-seven
thou and people.
While the Co-nstorks lived and
hourishel it was called the or, attest
vein of the globe, but alter yielding
! 29l ,000,000 and enricAIng MANY
thou and , it lies tod y like q dead
viathan with but The gl,rr nf
p ist t. hand down TO pos Gritty, and
the PIT five Years has been mail. y
worked by ,ntrIbntions from tlIn-,
interested in lis fu ur,. Were it.no.
for This assistance the miles Of lev. J.
a ID drifts wonl1 on be filed with
debris and voter and wen the pro-
duct or $l,145 300 which was its plo-
Duct on in 1881, wruld never again
be equ led, while on tho other hand
the graId old 'Veta Madre" stands
lo-d y III a f1ourishing concitiol.
rvcn uader its primitive manage
ment, with the glorious record of
s950,OOO, 900, and wealth not yet
III III d. 1t is true the product o.,
of the ComStOckS was mrde within
tweIty-three years; sill, every con
veni nee and st ient;fic discovery was