San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-12-27
SCENES IN WONDERLAND.

SCENES IN WONDERLAND.
The Americans Will Celebrate
Christmas The Gambler Must
Go-Mincrs and Mines-ShoL
Under the Bed-A New
Hotel for Topo Chico
Personals.
MONTEREY, Dec. %, 1892
To the LIGHT:
The Americans are making prepsr-
ations to celebrate Christmas and
New Year on grand scale this year.
If the programme, as has been
mapped out t, is carried out it will sur.
pass anything of that kind that was
ever projected in this city. OF this
we will nave something TO say in our
next letter.
THE GAMBLERS MUST GO.
We have been informed that as
soon as the mayor elect Is inaugural.
ed, that one OF the first orders that
he will issue is to serve notice on the
American gam blers aud their roper
ms that they must leave the city.
This means that they must leave the
state. OF late there mas been q num-
Der Oh that class OF men i'm the city.
and if the reports that have reached
the officers elect be true they have
made some big hauls, and many =
railroad man has been beat out Of
their hard earned money. Those
gam blers had their strikers who
were paid for leading the rail-
road men into the gam bling
rooms. They will have to
60 also. The officers have the
names of all of them. There is every
reason to believe that some Of the
saloons will be closed Slso.
MINERS AND MINES.
We promised in our last letter that
we would give write-up of the
miners and mines In our next letter.
We then stated that we met more
mining men i'm the city that week
than we ever met at any one time be-
fore.
One of the youngest and most prom
inent of the miners that we met was
Prof. A. Marriott, superintendent of
the Iguana mines. which are situated
in the VallecilIa district, about TWEEN.
ty-two miles east OF Lsmpazos. Prot.
Marlett came here about two and
half wears ago and opened an assay
ing office. Soon after the Guggenheim
Bros. concluded to erect q smelter in
Monterey. They employed him to go
to Catorca and take charge of the
mines and ores that they purchased
in that district. Alter he got them in
working shape they sent him into the
tat Of and nnrannn tor
the purpose of examining mines and
purchasing ores. He continued with
them until the Fort Scott Mining and
Smelling company, of Colorado, was
reorganized. This company is COM
posed OF some of the wealthiest CAPT
talists Of Monterey, Laredo. Colorado,
Ne W York and Philadelphia, and
they selected Mr.. Marlett sas their
general superinteDd dent, TO work and
develop the IguAna mines. Before
leaving for the mines he lett the fol-
lowing memoranda tor US: The Iguana
mines were discovered and worked
bv the Spsniards as early as 1852.
But In those days they were frequent
ly interrupted by the Indians who
looked upon them with SUI picion,
and many bloody fight occurred,
and many persons killed on both
sides In those days the kings of
Spain imposed tax of per cent on
all the ores that they took out, and
the records show that over S5O, 900 600
In taxes were paid the kings: This
record also shows that over Sl20 .OO0,~
900 silver ore was taken out of those
mines. But as they had to fight In
dams, revolutionists and bandits they
abandoned the mines and obliterated
all signs of some of them and left the
country. There was no effort made
tn reopen them until 1887, when
Messrs. d. Milmo and Sam Gahn, Of
Laredo, Texas, and others denounced
them and discovered others. In that
year we saw in Laredo some of the
richest native silver ore that we ever
laid eyes on that came from those
mines. We saw nuggets of almost
pure silver, and silver threads run
ming through others that were as
thick as No. II wire.
Since Prof. Marlett took charge of
mines he took Outore from one mine
which assays from $50 10 $3.50 per ton:
from another $4,000, and a third Sl3,
600 per ton, and from new mine
which mas been recently discovered
they took out 700 pounds of ore that
IL valued at "a so per pound. He ex.
poets to get out of that mine before
rhe close of the year over 10000
worth of ore. They are now working
q large free of men and after January
lst, 1893, they will increase the force.
They also expect that the Mexican
National Railway company will build
q branch road from iampasos to the