The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-01
MEXICO'S BOSS MAGNATE.
TIE AMERICAN DETELOPFR OF 4 NEW
AND IMPORTANT INDUSTRY.
He's from Buncombe County. Where, he
sAysJThey RaIse;Good Yankee Traders.


much education. he has become pretty deep
thinker by contact with natural mon and the
forces OF nature. He has arrived at conclusions
he never read of In books which have taken the
scientific people whole lifetime TO reach.
like that class OF men much better than do
crammed scholars. Mr.. Cooper, come here"
classify as 10 derivation or race. He was rather
small, smiling. with his skin showing ten
his eyes he looked to be Mexican,
Where do you live. MIR. "copper"
between the City OF Mexico and Guatemala l
w Oh. YOU are the man who ls lining our
hotels and houses with Mexican onyx ,..a
YOU s R hS0 S got EsW e aE Ssa
SniS%$! Dem :h%ii 60 back to Mexico. the
Why, sir. shall ship .l;Gol;3o6 % worth So6 Of
self; but shall make a good profit on It. lam
not no, down there Tor the study OF poetry only
"Where do you come from, Mr.. ,Cooper2"
From Bunoombe county North CaEolina I
%e2c6 from s al IL nat Country around Ash.
Vile, which is the Lords delight, was the land
e % hah sooG S0rR
have been trading SINCE was boy When
little t boy SSed anm Ia no nd whe eha ,h s
around tie letter 2 and the tiger around. tie
them On mails Just where they live
/ was married. where do YOU suppose I took
ny hsr d to the so Go% MSnt x o IN
somethinE new, and not be one Of these here
commonplace brides TO run OIL to baltimore or
Bftn we % me ane t en- 0fp1h have p so %
residue, to it. SO, filled up vessel with
tpny t,rira I'm IN n hinfa nd mn,
%enSG $,ss5}%ss Of "sosSSs' os SfI
Soaer s0 ny Cod rn% Thso % 'Ru as well
up the Congo, and I barlered my, accord!ons
taEgerS 79e6rSs Ne had seen in the P5ime G
fetch a tagger skin, hardly dry; right of the
tree, where The black fellow had stuck it w.
Buncombe, county man, wasn't it?n'.
Il suppose you have heard Of ChoHan? Not
heard OF Chopani Where have you lived2
inei him. chona ,nO was vas in the coniederste
army and when the cause was lost he went 10
Mexico. They were lighting down there about
public and the other side tor NaNimiiap. The
conYseguence was, the pay intended Il for tho
an was Il smart teller. SAYS he TO the Pay
master: Here. give me $4,000 and will settle
r rS A' on one on n0 SIDE ES' and said fook
yer; don't you want to be my irendY
20 dGW
to me and git it. and don't stampede the Pay:
masters. We can live together down yer all
the other side and told hi9, that When he got
hungry, and wanted to make little raise. to
each side that he would tell the other side
when their enemy was approaching; The COP.
out when the other side was coming H. War
g and en- GnGR Rs was
business, and jned him."
us ChonRn q prosperous man p
Lord bless you; he is worth 100000 He
where the vanderbllts and Astors and all these
only hotel on the American PRINCIPLE with
everything bang up. TO DO found in Mexico,
we haul it by OK teams some fourteen
miles, Tint brings US to a railroad. Then We
lHad it upon cars and take It to Vera CWEHS
blessing it is for Mexico to have opened as she
d a. during the present month the new route t9
Mexico. 1t is on the axis Of the traffic between
Mexico and the United States much more
Nera Cruz is nothing but a roadstead and
hardly that, Why. had e pay for demurrage
some time ago in time to deliver 1t under .
contract. You see. l send this onyx to the
good deal Of it to Germany, much to England.
and in the United States we have orders for
e p h s41 ,G GGgaE9 10
the, uses are extending. These beautiful lamp
tables have a square foot or 80 OF it inserted.
with all that magnificent onyx which covers
I he saloons and reception rooms, one OF the
% Stow aons 0hS ast SS yns h iar
It. Now. Tampic9 Is up a, river some
have to do is to drodge tho rivers mouth and
deepen the inlet. and You can come light up
and 3 Ite at Tampico TharyeS and load anything:
kind Of President for Mexico. What do they
want to be having elections nIl tho time for
Diaz won't have anything but the republic. but
he he, knpows. Ike old Oliver gromwei! thGt tn,
in behalf of the people
brother Cooper tell mo Just what onyx is?"
Jews and OF the old ana New Testamenls /
wrote an article some time aEo showing every
In ba aS Gn each oSer
for it. The Book OF Revelations refers to the
hoaye1y thrones &G mTIe OF onyx It makes
WHICH has Scrpnra antiquity. Ha! ha hal
I will tel you what l. Is; 1t is the troppinGs;
stalacital caves. You know what q stalac-
lite IS? 1t Is the escaping carbonate Of lime
imp egnated drops fell 10 the floor and made
what are called stala%mites. Tell mo that
this ear:h is only 5000 years old. Why. we
can compute to some extent how long L took
those separate drops OF water TO fall. fall. fail.
until we have these great deposits OF onyx.
After tho staagmltes wero made. some great
subterranean fire under the ocean arose and
baked the substance. Thore you see the iri-
descence. the iodine. all sorts OF oceanic phOs-
thi ngs IN the onyx. Yes. sir: they
fSSm rafan by Dropping IN Gayerns and then
then up came the onyx"
Is there anything else you have down there
compared to this onyx namentnton?"
Yes: we have wonderful agato stone.
which Is conglomerate OF carbonate OF lime
with pebbles in 1t and silica added. 1t taxes
on 1t the most exquisite tints. We are begin
ming to get that out and send It as AN adjunct
to the onyx. Mexico Is a wonderful deposit II
exquisite minerals. The ilro and the water
and all the chemical elements seem to have
had picnic and tho dances got burned up.
and we are digging he carnival out"
" What do you get for this on X -
-" We get for 1t about 81 u square foot In form
Ike these marble tiles ppon the floor; That is
what Il sells for In tho Sintrs here after being
shipped at wholesale In large quantities; We
get for 1t in the raw state, us We ,hlP i WITHOUT
polishing 1t at all, 81 or s. u cubical foot. We
on3t undertake to polish 1t in Mexico We
S1st load y up on ne shlpS ara sena IL 70 the
" low do you got 1t out Mr.. CooporW
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