San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-01
SCENES IN WONDERLAND.

From Monterey to Trevino-Scenery
Spanish Combines and Mi
Bers-City DOts-Personal.
To the San Antonio LIGHT:
MONTEREY, July IS, 1891.
On Sunday morning your cores
pondent was invited by Col, John
Grace. the general superintendent Of
the Monterey and Mexican Gulf rail-
way, to take q trip with him to Tre-
vino, at the junction of the Gulf and
/. & M. railway. We lett Monterey at
7 a. m. and reached Trevino few
minutes after 10. Soon after the
passenger train on the I. & Nj. came
In from Porfirio Diaz and right behind
it WAS the pay car with squad of
Mexican soldiers aboard to guard the
train. AS water is scarce along the
line of that road all trains haul an
extra fat with water tanks on.
The country between Monterey
is picturesque; there are noun tains
on both sides OF the road and
many ranches in sight of the
cars. Ia many place we saw field of
wheat. oats, corn and sugar cane. AS
they do not have any cold weather in
this section they raise from two to
three crops of corn year on the same
ground. All kinds of vegetables
grow there the year round.
Trevino is destined, in the near fu-
ture, to become place of some im-
portance. 1t is located on the edge
of beautiful valley; the soil is rich
and will produce all the cereals that
are grown in this section. But of late
years this scope of country has suffer-
ed from drouth, and at present the
ground is parched.
The road crossed over several creeks
between Monterey and TrevinO, and
at two of them we saw q large force
of men putting in stone abutments
for iron bridges. Messrs. J. r. and
w. w. Price, of Monterey. have the
con tract for them, and the iron water
tanks of the Gulf road. The founda-
tions of the iron tanks are built of
black marble which they get from
their own quarry at Topo Chico.
FOUND SPANISH COIN.
On Wednesday last while the work.
men, who are engaged on the "Al ar
iente y sur de Monterey" street rail-
road, were grading near the intersec-
ton of Washington and Zaragoza
streets, they dug up . box that con-
tanned ancient Spanish coins consist
ing of dollars, halves, quarters and
reales of the day of Philip II. of
Spain. AS he assembled to throne in
1ESn the an;no a Duar uaoro old
The men did not know the value of
the coin and they traded them off for
new Mexican money. The find
amounted to about $400.
MINERS AND MINES.
This week we met Mr.. Thomas
Gilgan, of the City of Mexico. who
WAS on his way to Tampico. He in
formed us that he was interested in
the san Jose Mining zone, which is
situated in the San Carlos municipal
ity, which is about fifteen
miles from Linares on the Monterey
and Gulf railroad.
This concession embraces 25x30
kiiometers and has attached to it 5000
acres of valuable land. The conces
sion from the government gives them
the right to import all kinds of ma
chinery, wagons, carts wheelbarrows
and in fact any thing that is neces-
ssry to work the mines, and haul the
ores to the railroad. This Is
the only company in Mexico that
has been allowed such privileges.
This zone embraces eight mines,
that were worked by the Spaniards
until they were driven out by the re-
volution Of 1910. Ore recently taken
from those mines have been assaysd,
and show the following results: No.
/, 80 per cent. copper to the ton and
traces of gold; No. 4, SO so gold to the
ton; S and 6, $3.50 to the ton on sur
face; at q depth of 10 meters, So 70; 20
meters, $3.50; q meters, $50. to the
ton. No. about the same; No. 8
contains gold, silver. lead and iron.
The vein in this mine is meters
thick and 500 meters long. This
mine is considered the richest of the
lot, for it has yielded $2l. As gold, and
1915 silver to the ton. Some native
silver has been taken out of it. It
was named by tho Spaniards "Rinon
de oro," or Golden Kidney.
Ore taken from the surface assayed
ga of silver. II per cent. of lead;
5 meters, "a IA of silver, rs per cent.
of lead; 10 meters, 40 ounces silver, 80 |
per cent. lead; Is meters, 80 3.4 ounces
silver, and 30 per cent. lead. These
mines are situated where they have |
an abundance of wook and water, |
and they have q good wagon road
from the railroad depot to |
the mines.
They also own the "Magis-
rortral" copper mines which |
are situated within thirty |
niles of the city of chihuahua,
,tate of Chihuahua.
This week we met Hon. Jose Con
:ales Trevino, of Via Laredo, state Of