The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-30
IN UNKNOWN MEXICO.
The Backwoods Regions of the
Aztec Republic.
COFFEE RAISING AND PROFITS.
fucatan and It's Observation-Disclosures
Pyramid in the World-The Gulf
Coast and It's Future Seaport.

might be given to the whole of the Mexican
republic. The country contains states
which have never been explored. 1t has
vast regions which have not been trodden
by the foot of the white man. The Mexi-
cans themselves do not know it and we
Americans have not the slightest concep-
ton of it. Look at the size of the country.
If you will take all the Atlantic states
from Main to Florida and sew them into a
crazy quilt your patchwork will not cover
much more than half of Mexico. 1t is one
fifth the size of the United States, includ-
ing Alaska, and some of its great states,
whose Inhabitants are Indians, are as big
as our best territories. Take the vast
mineral region of Sonora. 1t is as big as
Kansas and it has climate and soil very
much like that of lower California. 1t adj
joins Arizona and it is said to be full of
gold and silver. | met an American miner
who had made something like million
dollars in mines in the central part of
Mexico and he told me that the great
mining region of the future was Sonora
and that the greater part of it had never
been prospected. Such mines as have
been worked are not far from the sea and
these have produced fortunes in the past.
The Carmen mine was worked during the
years between 1920 and 1880 and it pro-
duced during this time $25. 000,000. The
Babicanora mine has already produced
S3l 100000 and there are other mines which
are tu5nlng out great quantities of
ore. Sonora has but one railroad,
branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Re system, which runs from the Southern
Pacific to Guaymas on the Gulf of Califor-
MIA. This territory has other minerals be-
sides gold and silver and Is one of the
favorlte prospecting fields along the West
coast. Just below it is the state of Sina-
loa, not quite as big as Ohio, which is also
full of minerals. 1t has one mine which
has produced $s5,000,0 900, and which still
turns out ore yielding from $S5 to $115 a
ton. Any ore that yields over $50 ton
will pay by the rudest of mining methods,
even in Mexico, and we mine a great deal
OF ore which runs less than S. per ton.
There is another mine In Sinaloa that has
turned out 100000 tons of ore, and this ore
has averaged at least $50 ton. This is
the Tejo mine. Its present output is about
twenty-four tons day, and its ore will
average at the present $125 ton. There
are great many Americans now going to
Sinaloa, and | understand that they are
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state is full of dye woods, and hundreds of
tons are being cut monthly. 1t has some
of the finest of furniture woods. and ma
hogany and ebony are used by the poorest
classes in building their huts. The cap
ital of the state is Culiacan, and there is a
little railroad running from the coast to
it. There are number of American resi-
dents at the capital, and they have, un
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UNKNOWN ELDoRADos.
How many Americans have heard of the
state of Guerrero? 1t is one of the richest
mining regions of Mexico, and it is said
that its soil is crust of silver and gold.
Here the first mines were worked by the
Spaniards, and the country contains hum
dreds of abandoned mines today. 1t lies
on the Pacific and it is only partially
known. 1t had one mine which produced
5000 ounces of silver in a few years, and
it is surrounded by great states which are
now being for the first time carefully in
vestigated Oaxaca, just below it, is now
being penetrated by the Mexican Southern
railroad, and this will bring a vast gold
bearing region into the market. The state
is the one in which President DiaZ was
born, and it is the one which will be on the
Tehuantepec ship railway if il is ever COM
pleted. 1t has vast areas of good land, and
| know a half-dozen American capitalists
who expect to make fortunes out of the coal
fields, which they say they have discovered
in it. Coal brings about $26 ton in Mexico
City, and there are said to be fine iron de-
posts in near proximity to these coal
fields. The climate of all this part of Mex
leo is very fine and the capitalist who
would buy some of the agricultural lands
along this route would make q fortune
The public lands are worth from 20 to IS
cents an acre, and they will raise coffee
and sugar and all kinds of grains This
new railroad Will, and does already tap
the mining regions of the state of Pueblo.
which contains both silver and gold, and
one of the finest specimens of gold ever
brought into Mexico City was shown to an
American business man there by an In
dian from this state about a month
ago. 1t was a nugget of solid gold as pig
as your fist. The American entered into
a contract with the man for the develop
ment of the region where il was found
and he travelled with him on horseback
for several days. when the Indian told
him that he had forgotten the place. This
was of course lie.
DURANGO AND CHIHUAHUA.
Durango and Chihuahua are among the
better known of the mineral regions of the
Mexican states. and they are both being
worked with great profit. The mine oper-
ated bv Boss Shepard is said to be turning
ont $4,000 a month, and il has turned out
$500, oOO. goo in the past. The same state
has another district which has yielded S60,-
600 coo of silver, and there is mine near
the city of Chihuahua which produced
more than $l0.000,000 a year for thirty
wears. There are number of Pittsburg
men who are working the Durango mines,
and capitalists from Denver and Kansas
City are investing here. The Candelaria
mine in Durango has yielded about 500
600 600. and there are number of old
mines which are being reclaimed in this
district. The state of Coihuila, which adj
Joins Texas on the north, and which is
bounded on the east by Chihuahua and
Durango, is another good mining region.
liz has two mines which average more
than S274 per ton, and the Santa Rosa
mine has produced as high as $500 ton.
An American company is working the
Santa Gertrudis mine, and this has pro-
duced as high as 81 ,0s0 a ton. This same
state has coal fields which {. L. Hunting
toms Mexican road now taps, and new
railroad will shortly be built, | am told,
by him through this state 10 Monterey.
The state of Jalisco Is another rich mining
country and am told that tin mines have
lately been discovered here. There Is said
10 be A tin mountain in this state which
averages IS per cent. of pure tin. and with
the rIdest of methods they are taking out
about COO pounds day. The mines are
about 100 miles from railroad, but the tin
IS so pure that they are liable 10 come into
with the mines OF Dakota and
Cornwall