El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-12

A terrible causalty occurred in the
Barranca del CObre on the 18th ult.
By . landslide of terrific proportions,
| in the arroyo in the Barranca, q whole
family. consisting of q Mexican, wife
and four children, we're swept into
eternity in the twinkling of an eve. A
] tremendous pile of earth and rock COW
I cred up the arroyo. and no effort was
| made to recover the bodies.-Enter-
prise.
A Mr.. Lohis has recently opened up
Q valuable gold mine few miles souto-
| west OF the famous gold district of
Jesus Maria, now called Ocampo, in
western chihuahua. He was recentiy
offered 2O-stamp mill, to be put up at
the mine and fully equipped for a one
fourth interest in the mine, but de-
cltned the offer, and is turning out
| such q large and steady stream of gold
through four arrastras that he will
soon be able to buy a mill.-Exchange.
| M. S. Hudson, who has just been re-
leased from prison at Toluda, was in
the city yesterday en- route to his old
home in Indiana. Some months ago in
| q difficulty, with which Mr.. Hudson
was connected, two Mexicass were
killed, and Mr.. Hudson and others
were arrested and charged with the
killing. After a trial in the courts, the
case against Mr.. Hudson was finally
dismissed by the supreme court. He
feels, naturally, greatly relieved over
bis release and is going back to his old
home In the States. Globe.
Hon. Matias Romero last week paid a
visit to the Porfirio Diaz institute. q
military and industrial school for de-
pendent boys, in Morelia. Before leav-
ing the school, whose fine condition
elected his unstinted praise, he wrote
the following in tie visitors' album:
The education of the sons of poverty
is one of the chief necessities of our
country, and the government which
makes provision for the same and uses
Tor the purpose such resources and ele-
ments as are available, is rendering q
positive service to the nation, the good
results of which must be felt before
very 'OnR. For this reason 1 consider
the efforts made by the government of
MichOac an in the establishment, main.
tenance and development of this in
dustrial school deserving of all praise.''
To say that Mexico is an extremely
rich country is mere pl altitude: one
knows not yet how rich it is. It is al
30 an extremely backward country.
Taking mining as an example. The
appliances common in the exercise of
this industry are of the crudest pos
slble description. Pumping machiu.
cry 1s practically nnheard of. and to
depart from the old world system of
descending shafts by means of primit-
i've native ladders is undreamt
of. This sort of thing cannot last,
and as soon as outside capital is intro
duced, there will come with it the
modern plan. The question for US on
this side to consider Is: Who Is to
supply that plan? It goes without say
ing that huge amount of the capitol
will be British; it Is by no means 80
certain that that money will be ex-
pended In the purchase of machinery
made here. And one factor of which
may initiate against this Is posi- biIity
OF American mining captains being in
troduced. The American miner is a
commercial traveller for American
machinery. He Gays it is better than
ours; which shows that he is patriot.
We are content to let him say so: which
shows that we are asleep, In dealing
with Mexicaps, 1t is desirable to bear
In mind two faces; he is q gentleman In
the first place: and in the second, he
will go straight as q die so long az al.
milar treatment is accorded him.-The
Consular Journal, London.
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