Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-18

now making giant strides. Long-aban-
doned mines are being reopened and rend-
cred productive, railroads constructed, large
areas of new land placed under cultivation
and manufactures Of various kinds estab-
lished.
1t is hardly fair to say that this progress
is due entirely to enterprise and capital
emanating from the United States. Eng
land, Germany, and the Scandinavian ma
lions have furnished large quota of i'm
migrants and money, and an important
share of the new growth has come from
the newly-awakened Mexicans themselves.
One feature of the new growth most
gratifying to right-minded Americans is
the rapid obliteration of prejudices which
bitterly against "los gringos." That pre-
judice was
THE NATURAL RESULT
OF the war between Mexico and the United
States, the loss of Mexican territory which
| followed the unholy struggle, and the
apprehension that some day another at
| tempt would be made by the stronger SISTER
Republic" to extend the line still further
southwark. Intelligent Mexicans are be-
ginning to understand that the passion for
annexation was the child of slavery, and
that it perlshed with the death Of its
mother; that politically it is no less the
hope of the American than the Mexican
Government that the line shall remain
forever unchanged, while commercially it
should be practically obliterated.
Regarding the newly-found anthracite
coal-beds of Sonora, General Mason, late
Surveyor-General of Arizona, writes that
large area of that State is underlaid with
coal pronounced by those who have exam
ined it, to be anthracite of good quality
1t is impossible to estimate the value of
this discovery in country where coal is
comparatively unknown and wood is so
scarce that in many sections it is pur-
chased per pound for fuel. Samples of
these
BLACK DIAMONDS
Have been examined in New York, Boston,
London and other commercial centers, and
in every case the verdict is the same
About six years ago two Mexican gem
tlemen endeavored to secure a title to
these coal fields, and obtained it, subject to
certain conditions. Some eighteen months
ago they succeeded in interesting New
York operators who recently put an ex-
ploring party, with proper machinery, on
the ground. As a result, large groupings
of coal appear at many places, over an
area of several hundred square miles, while
it stands out prominently on the banks of
streams and in deep washes
Estimates made upon the spot, with
full knowledge of the topography of the
country between these coal fields and the
port of Guyamus, understanding the cost
of labor and transportation, show that the
coal can be mined, and with railway be
delivered at Underwater, for 50 90 per ton;
and anywhere along the coast from Panama
to San Francisco, at total cost of about
81 per ton. In country where $50 per
ton Is not an uncommon price to pay for
coal imported from long distances, this
" find is of the utmost Importance
Another recent discovery in Mexico is
that of a Brazilian plant which is said to
have medicinal virtues that make it an
infallible
CURE OF CANCER.
Some time ago samples of the plant were
sent to Washington for experimental use.
| am told that the investigations were car
ried on under the personal supervision of
DIR. Townsend, then-if not now-Health
Officer of the District Of Columbia. The
doctor is said to have been guarded in ex-
pressing positive opinion, but in answer
to an interviewer, said: 81 have no hest
tation in admitting that in certain cases it
has given me very encouraging results.
My experiments have not yet gone far
enough to warrant me in presenting the
matter to the profession, and my reports
from others, into whose hands the remedy
has also been placed, have not come in
fully enough to justify me in making them
public at present"
Should this Brazilian herb have half the
medicinal virtue ascribed to it, its value
can scarcely be computed
FANNIE Is. WARD.