The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-03
PASSED THROUGH.
General Aguirre, Consul at New Or
leans for Honduras.

Among Yesterdays eastbound passen-
gers was General j. M. Aguirre, re-
Gently appointed consul-general for
Honduras at New Orleans. The general
is on his way to New Orleans, but
will first visit Philadelphia, where he
will be Joined by his wife.
General Aguirre is we'll known in this
country, and has been one of the promi-
nent characters of Honduras. When he
was only % years of age he was a
member of President Medina's cabinet.
This was in 1868, and he filed the
responsible position of minister of for
eign affairs. He has twice been elect
ed to the Honduras congress from the
department of Olancho
In 1880 he was sent to this country as
the confidential agent of his govern
ment in relation to the Bahia Cor Bay.
Islands controversy between Honduras
and Great Britain. and that prevented
him from serving in the constitutional
congress in that year, to which he had
been elected from the department of
La Mosquito. The year previous Eng
land had attempted to regain posses
sion of the Bay Islands, to which in
1880 she had relinquished all claim
by the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and she
y
out her purpose on the pretense that
british subjects were being interfered
with. To prevent her from Selling the
is ands Honduras appealed to the Amer
lean government, choosing General
Aguirre for the important mission.
He is very strongly pro-American and
anti British in his views, and, being a
jour- alist and an author, he has pub
lished, among other works, in Spanish,
a book called Uncle Sam in Pontifical
Robes, ana John Bull destitute of At
tire" which has been translated and
published in New York in the English
language, For while General Aguirre
was the EDITOR of La Graceta, the daily
official orgs at Tegucigalpa, and at
the same tine he edited two weeklies,
one of which was entirely independent
The generals wife, to whom he has
been married six years, was two and a
half years in Central America. She
comes from an Ohio family and has a
decided literary bent, being widely
known as Gertrude Garrison, the con-
tributor to Belford's Magazine, the
Arena and the Washington Post.
Honduras is enjoying an era of pros
perity under President Vasquez," said
General Aguirre. 1.-The new president
| is very intelligent mana man of
great mind. He is a lawyer and is
also one OF the best soldiers in Spanish
America. He has been in this country
a great deal. most Of the time in New
York, and was one of the five ccnces-
sionaires of the Newfoundland rail-
road.
Il have not been in active political
life for some time. I took this Office
more because my wife cannot endure
the Honduras climate and also because
lit gives me an opportunity to attend
TO some private business. AS l wa ;
coming to the United States anyway
thought might as well accept the
position. At present / am devoting
myself principally to literary work and
studies
quite a number of American min
ing companies are now engaged in de-
veloping the mineral resources of Hon
duras, which are very rich. The Rosa
LA mine, for instance, which is being
worked by a company with capital
stock of S4,50O,000 in shares of SO each.
is paying from 80 to 50 per cent. in
dividends. That mine turns out both
silver and gold-20 per cent. gold-and
has been running since 1880. Mayor
Burke. of New Orleans, who was the
amalgamator of the Times and Demo-
crat of that city. is one of the leading
mining developers in Honduras