El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-13

foremanship of E. A. Began, well
known and responsible mining man.
Tucson Citizen.
Mexico.
Near Matape the Sierra Mining
company have opened up their money
Maker" mine of free mining gold ore
that averages S21O per ton.
English imports of Mexican copper
for the last ten months of this year
were 3073 tons. In the same time
France imported 1725 tons from that
conntry.-Chihuahu Enterprise.
The bank of Jalisco started business
in Guadslajara with $3.50, 1000 in hard
money in its vaults. Before the doors
were opened government officials ex-
amined all preparations made and took
the declarations of the banks officers
prescribed by law to secure against
Irregularities
Sufficient money has been subscribed
in the City of Mexico to
start the proposed military, casino
q new club intended principally for
militarymen, from which all gam bling
shall be vigorously excluded. A ccm-
mittee is now looking for suitable
building in the hope of securing one
in time to have the new club begin its
existence early in the new year.
The pole setting gang of the street
railway company having finished the
setting of trolley poles on the Guada-
lupe line between the cathedral and
the Peralvillo gate, started Monday
on the Tacubaya line, working from
the plaza along Refugio. Coliseo and
Independents streets toward Belem,
from where the gang will return,
working its way back on the inward
bound track to the plaza. The work
is performed with wonderful smooth
ness and rapidity.-E Exchange
The emerald district of the republic
is near Tlaltaya, district of Sultepec,
some eighty kilometers from Tolucs.
There is much gold in that section
which used to be worked by Jesuits
who took it out and sent it to Europe
as copper for the casting of bells."
The Spaniards then got the property
and still exported "copper"" The pro-
perty was gradually allowed to lay fall
low. until at present nothing is being
done with it.-Monterey Globe.
Sebastian Camacho ia actively engag-
ed in organizing q company with q ca
pital of 1925, 900 for the exploitation of
q recent Mexican invention in the tan
merry liue. The company is to build and
operate q tannery equipped with the
most approved machinery and proposes
to make leather that cannot alone
compete in Mexico with the foreign
product, but also enter into COMPETE
ton with the same abroad.-Two Re-
publics.
After six months absence in the
United States, Rev. Henry Forester,
OF the Episcopalian mission, has re-
turned to Mexico and resumed his
ministerial labors. He was for some
time 10 New Mexico under the juris-
diction of Bishop Kendrick, where he
was occupied in q systematic study of
the Spanish and edited some historic
doctrinal documents regarding the
other labors of Importance to the
Church.-Herald.
A small propeller used by lingo
Noriega rs a.tug for moving barges on
Lake Chalco and in the canals, has
been fitted out as q miniature gunboat
and now mounts two Hotchkiss cannon
A trial trip was to have been made
with this gunboat yesterday on Lake
Chalco in the presence of prominent
military and naval men, in order to
settle the question whether q boat of
tnab KIM can be made useful as an
auxiliary to the navy in time of war
Two Republics.
The lazareto, or pest house, used
during the fever time, in the suburb of
this city, was publicly cremated Sun
day afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Globe
received official notice to that effect
together with an invitation to be pre-
sent at the execution. The building
together with all its contents, includ-
ing even the telephone, was burned,
aud every vestige Of the property en-
tirely destroyed. The officials
felt there was absolutely no fur
Their need for such an institution In
Monterey. as the fever seems to have
entirely died out. The government on
yesterday issued the last bulletin on
the fever situation. The bulletin says
emphatically that there is no more
fever Id Monterey, there having been
no new cases for several days, and no
deaths from that disease recently. 1t
is safe to say again that there is no
yellow fever in Monterey, and the city
is ready again to receive her guests
from the outside world. Health certi-
ficates are no longer necessary to those
leaving Monterey. Monterey Globe.
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