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were all operated by natives who had
been reduced to a practical slavery; and
that enforced service was an import
ant cause of the revolution of 1850,
which overthrow for thirteen years the
Spanish domination: but the mining of
turquois was a very small item compar-
ed with that of silver. The great tur-
quois mine was in what is now called
the Turquois mountain, or Mt. Chal-
chuitl, 20 miles south of Santa Fe, and
in the debris around this are still to be
found the stone hammers used in the
ancient operations. After the return of
the Spaniards, by al unwritten agree
ment, no mining vas attempted and it
was not until 1879 that a short lived eff
fort was made by Americans to reopen
the abandoned workings. A few years
after, a Mexican discovered the mine
about three miles to the northeast,
which has since been the greatest pro-
Queer in the world, and has attained
wide celebrity as the Tiffany mine. 1t
is mostly owned by New York people,
and is understood to have produced
over $780, 900 worth of gems. Still later
the Grant county mines, part of which
belong to the Azure Turquois Com
pany, We're opened, and more recently
the mine in the Jarillas, operated by
Mr.. DeMules. l have been quite famil-
lar with the history of all these modern
enterprises, and so far from the mines
being ''bathed in blood the excavation
Of turquois is about the quietest kind of
mining, and the only death that I ever
heard of in connection with it, was that
of a very worthy miner named Maddux,
who was killed by a sad accident in the
American Company's shaft.
The article says that Mr.. DeMules
discovered his mine after amending eff
forts to evade the jealous scrutiny of
the natives, warmed into fierce jealousy
by the padres On the contrary it's To-
cation was entirely uninhabited, and
certainly not more than one priest lives
within 100 miles; and if there had been
so, they as well as the natives" would
have welcomed any new industry and
aided it's development. The article then
tells us that men connected with the
American Turquois Company and the
Azure Turquois Company have seen
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yond belief. Yet the murderers never
were punished except perhaps by fall
ing a victim to revenge instead of jus
tice.'' If those men saw such murders,
it may have been in some other state or
country, but was certainly not in New
Mexico, as they never occurred there;
and the implication that murder is not
punished there is as preposterous as it
is slanderous. 1t is matched by the fol-
lowing choice sentence. "As there is no
law there but force, the assassin has
probably followed his victim.'
New Mexico is still a territory, so
that all of it's judges are United States
officers appointed by the president.
They are thus free from any of the in
1uences which sometimes affect an
elected judiciary, and their character
has uniformly been high. The courts
are as impartial as any in the land, and
justice is melted out by no uncertain
hand. or course. some rough charact-
ers are always found on the border, but
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country, of the size of New Mexico, Git
is larger than all New England and
New York together) where the people
are so peaceable and so little crime ex-
lists. Life is much more secure there
than in eastern cities. | have lived
there for nearly 20 years, travelling in
all sections, frequently alone on horse
back, and have never thought of carry
ing any weapon more effective than a
pen knife. The native people, ordinarily
called M~exicans, although they have
been American citizens for over so years
and only the aged ever knew any other
flag. are essentially law abiding and
respectors of authority. The last issue
of the NEW MEXICAN, the oldest pa
per in the territory, contains this SEN
tence, which fits the subject so well that
I venture to quote it: New Mexico is
freer from murder in proportion to it's
population, than nine out of ten of the
other sections of the Union, as may be
found by watching the criminal records
of the country"
Pardon the length of this, but it seems
only right to correct such mis-state-
ments. 1t has long been usual to locate
n particular tough story of frontier
life in New Mexico or Arizona, and We
do not especially object to these as long
as they are simply humorous; but when
our people are branded as a set of muir
derers, our courts as n%onentities, and
our territory as having n law but
force it seems time to call a halt.
L. BRADFORD PRINCE.
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