Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-04

carvings. This largest pyramid is re-
markable for symmetry rather than size,
for the polish of its stones and the exact
regularity of their cut
The base is perfect square, each side
being eighty-two feet. The perpendicular
hight is about sixty feet, and, like all
Mexican teocallis, the mound is composed
of several terraces. A huge stairway of
fifty-seven steps leads to the top, up which,
no doubt,
VICTIMS OF THE SACRIFICE
Were marched to the beat of serpent-skin
war drums.
The entire State of Vera Cruz is mount
ainous, except a narrow strip along the
coast, and is watered by many rivers, all
emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. There
are also seven considerable lakes-a great
rarity in this thirsty country, and what,
with internal water privileges and the
Gulf of Mexico for its eastern boundary
Vera Cruz ought to be the most prosperous
State in the republic.
Besides Tuxpan and Vera Cruz, the
other seaports are Nautla, Tecolutla, Alva-
RADIO, Tlacotalpam, Santecomapan and
Coatzacoalco. Mining has not been ex-
tensively carried on, owing to the indo-
lence of the people. In the Jalapa dis
trict, gold, copper, lead, iron and coal are
found. In Tulancingo, gold and silver
in Orizaba, photographers stone, sulphur
mercury, gold and Puebla onyx; and in
Tonalixco Sierra de Zongolica), diamonds
have been discovered.
A great deal of coffee is grown in the
State, especially in the neighborhood OF
Jalapa; besides, rhubarb, yuma (quinine)
cotton, tobacco. vanilla, etc. Among the
products are dried fish, hides, ebony, rose
mahogany, cedar and tulip woods, indigo
cochineal, sarsparilla and jalap There
are also good many cotton factories
some of them turning ont as much as 5000
Kilograms of thread per month and 5000
pieces of cloth.
The State is divided into eighteen can
tons, or counties, and contains five cities
of which Vera Cruz is the most important
Jalapa the most beautiful, and Orizaba
Cordova and Panneo perhaps the mos
interesting-the last-named town being
one of the oldest places in Mexico. Be
sides these, there are, according to Mexi
can classification, y towns, 734 villages
237 haciendas of great landed estates, anC
9I3 cultivated farms. Government land i,
here valued at the rate of AZ cents pei
acre-a price far above the average.
Orizaba is the State Capital, and has be
come quite a manufacturing town, will
10000 inhabitants. The Mexican Tele
phone Company has exchanges in Cordova
Orlzaba, Vera Cruz, Jalapa, Tuxpan anC
Minatitlan. The town last named i
situated on the left bank of the Rio Coat
zacoalcos, and though containing less thar
5000 inhabitants, is one of the larges
shipping places for mahogany, cedar anC
festic.
The educational advantages of this por
ton of Mexico are very good. The State
supports 726 public schools, with an aver
age daily attendance of $4,000 pupils. Fol
higher education, there is at Vera Cruz
seminary for young ladies and the Insti
tuto Vera Cruzano; at Orizaba is State
college and girls high school at Cordova
Is female seminary and Il preparatory
college for boys; at Jalapa is perpetrators
college, and another at Tlacoatalpam al
Santa Iuca is an academy, and scattered
about the State are five private academies
The steamship lines are numerous that
ply between this coast and other ports Of
the world. There is the Alexandra line
from New York, the Morgan line from
Galveston and Morgan City, a Mexican
line between Vera Cruz and Minatitlan
the Harris West Indian) line from Liver.
pool, the Imperial German Mail from
Hamburg, the Royal Mail from Southamp-
ton, the French Transatlantic from Ma
zaire, the French from Marseilles, the
Spanish (Antonio lopez from Cadiz, the
Spanish marquis del Compel from San
lander, and an Italian line from Genoa.
As for the railroads, if half of those now
projected are ever finished, the State will
be marked with lines" like a checker
board. FANNIE B. WARD.