St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-28
MINING IN MEXICO.
Money Will Flow In Now That the
Banditti and Indians Are

Checked.
Philip Delgado, of Montery. Mexico,
who has been in the city several days
on business connected with mines in
the state of Zaeatecas, remarked to a
st. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter in ref
erence to the mining industry OF Mex
leo: IL look for very large influx of
American, English and German capital
into the Northern states, especially into
Sonora, Durango and Chihuahua,
during the next three or four
months. American capital in particu
lar is coming i'll with great rapidity, and
within few months very large num-
Der OF mines will be operated by citi
Zens of the United States. The sup
preston of revOlts has had most eX-
cellent effect, not only on the industry
on the mining interest. The gangs Of
banditti who terroriZed the country
were not robbers, as that term is under
stood in the United States, but occupied
more the position of rebels against the
central government, while being gener-
ally friendly with the people of the state
III which they originated, and i'll which
they had their strongholds. The most
marked characteristic of these robber
bands was their anti-foreign feel
ing, and they would go miles out
of their way to rob or kill an American,
leaving far richer booty untouched be-
cause it belonged to their friends and
fellOW-countrymen. OF course the
mines, lying among the moul tains and
remote from settlements. were espec-
tally exposed to their raids, and no one
unacquainted with the condition of the
country can appreciate what draw
back this has been, particularly in
Northern Sonora. Not much has been
heard of it, because the system of ter
rorism that has prevailed has prevented
prospecting parties from going into the
mountains, and their great mineral
wealth has remained practically I'M
known. But recently, owing to the eff
forts that have been made by the cen
tral government,
THE BANDiTTI
have been nearly completely put down,
and an uneXampled number of pros
pecting parties have gone into the
mountains along the northwestern Dor
der, and the reports that they made
were so favorable that leases and pur-
chases of number of mining proper
ties have been closed, at least dozen
agents for mining machinery firms are
cost Of shelters and stamp mills, and by
July the whole country will be hum
ming with industry. Contrary to the
general impression, Durango and
Sonora are about the oldest min
eral districts in Mexico. In every
direction can be seen the traces
Of old workings and the rude mud fur
naces used for roasting the ore can be
met with by the hundreds. The coun-
try was abandoned, not because the
mineral gave out, but on account of the
raids of the Apaches. These savages
used to pour down over the border every
summer, especially after the United
States troops checked their raids north
of the line, and their atrocities depopu-
lated districts which were previously
most populous. The miners were
most exposed of all. and it was upon
this industry that the curse of Indian
depredatlonS fell most heavily. When
one mine was raided and all the work
men killed, an entire district would be
abandoned and some of the richest min
eral lands in Mexico have been I'M
touched for the last twenty years on ac-
count of a few hundred ApacheS. But
these lnroadS have been put an end to
forever, and now the Americans are
streaming into this section. backed by
ample means, and with all the latest APP
pliances.
THE COUNTRY
has already been very thoroughly pros
pected; the adobe furnaces furnishing
an excellent guide to the experts in
their Investigations, a great deal of
development work they find ready to
their hands, and consequently more
rapid advance in the task of producing
mineral may be looked for than is
usually the case in new country. In
vestOrs are not slow to recognize the pc
culiar advantages offered by the min
eral lands of Northern Mexico, and by
fall a development will be seen which
will astoniSh every one"