Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-05

sugar-cane, aud is said to be palatable
when dostored up.
THE FARMERS BEHIND THE AGE
Thtlr iaruing imp ements, vehicles,
manufactures, furniture, ETC., We're
away behind the times Their plOws
consisted of a forked tree, one limb
was shortened and performed the part
Of THE shovel, the other was longer and
attached to the oX-yoke Their wagons
were generally made entirely
OF wood, not particle of iron about
the whole outfit, except a small, sharp
nail in the end OF staff which they
call "goad, and IL is used in driving
the oxen. Instead of attaching the
yoke TO the neck of the OK by a bow,
they lash 1t TO his horns by rawhide
thongs.
THEIR CRUDE MILLS.
They were behind the age in many
respects and all were eager to learh
how this aud that was done sin Amer
lea" They had made no improve
ments in many years. AS an illust-a.
ton of their want of enter.
prise, there was a water
power on one of the streams
that runs through Monterey of sufIi.
clent capacity to run all the mills in
North Mexico Ii was natural water.
fall, never vary ing, and had never been
utilized except to drive a small saw.
mill put up on the old sash cav plat,
which would saw about as much In a
day as one man could carry Off Large
pines were in sight and to be had only
Tor the cutting, and yet lumber, rough
pine plank, was worth Sl0 per hun
dred feet and all kinds very scarce.
THE YANKEES SURPRISE THE NATIVES.
couple OF practical mechanics who
belonged to the Ohio regiment on-
tanned sixty days. furlough
and leased this mill and
In a very few hours had the machinery
rattling away at regular Yankee speed
Many people gathered 10 see the won
dertul Improvement. The soldiers
made little fortune, and at the end Of
che sixty days fabulous price was de-
manded for an extension of the lease.
THE KINGS MILL.
Moline del Rey, the kings mill,
three miles from the city, Is a remark.
able structure. Ii is built of rock and
oemented In and out. A reservoir,
some two acres in extent. is built of
stoue ana cemented beautifully. This
reservoir Is used for cleaning and dry.
Ing. wheat, and can be filed with water
and then drained Cf in an incredible
snort time, leaving the grain exposed
10 the sun. The water that drives
THIS mill was conducted from the
mountains about mile distant, di-
rectiy from the springs where IL /
cuisines out. A huge stone wall is
Duilt irom the mountain, in the top
OF which was groove or hollow large
enough 10 convey the water. and at
the mill gave It "A fall of about twenty
ilve feet and emptled 10 into q huge
hopper and from there IL fell on the
water-wheel, which was the only piece
or machinery about the whole affair.
Yet, substantial and costly as the
structure was, the mill turned out
about as much flour In a day as an old
fashioned horse mill did when We
we're boys.
A NATIVE wOOLEN-aTILL,
The shawl and blank &c factory near
Saltillo was another point OF great In. |
lerest 10 some Of us. Ii had large and |
elegant stone buildings and the same
kind Of watef-power and facilities as
the mill before named, which was only /
nsed TO drive a machine to haekle or
head the wool before 1t was converted
into thread by hand. About one hun
bred and eighty females, mostly girls,
were Engaged IN this factory, and |
notwithstanding all the work was
done by hand, they turned out
large quantities OF zerappis and blank \
pc, the former as Indispensable to the
Mexiean's body as the latter is 70 the
The 2erappls mAnufac-
,ured here varied from two to fifty
dollars each In price, and the blankets
rom Two dollars as high as two hum
ired.
rhE MINING RESOURCES.
In our travels through tho states OF
Nuevo Leon, Tamsnlipas and Cca-
luiia, We found everywhere variety \
I ores. Tin and lead ore abound in
he Vicinity OF Ceralvo, and we visited L
liver mines In the vicinity Of
'iotorla, which had been
iorked many years before and
ad been abandoned. Amateur !
biologists and mineralogiatB pre-