The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-07-07
A TRIP TO
MEXICO.
Hon. W. P. Tackett Gives an
Interesting Account Of His
Experiences in Mexico.
Continued from last week. }

lnlS properly Is Superihtehueu anu
directed, so far as its practical oper-
ations are concerned, by young men,
many of them from the South. While
there | had the pleasure of meeting
Mr.. T. Evans, formerly from Aber-
deem, Miss, a nephew of the late
Capt. J. J. Evans. He has charge of
the transportation department and
receives a fine salary. Wages of all
kinds are high there, and ordinary
Mexican day laborers receive from
$500 to $500 per day, Mexican
money, while Americans receive more.
Business Of all kinds appear prosper
ous, and any industrious and enter
prising young American can go there
and by attention and application can
succeed.
After spending few days in Ca
nanea we procured carriage, a pair
of good horses, Mexican driver
familiar with the mountains, canteens
with a supply Of drinking water, and
pair of Mexican blankets each, and
left on our journey for our own min
eral property, about 68 miles Instant.
Our blankets were bought in Cananea
and DR.. Johnson and paid $40 for
our two pairs. Mine brought home
with me. We travelled down the So
nora River until noon. stopping for
dinner at Red Mountain. The bed of
the river was but sand bed, only
occasionally the water came to the
surface, trickling down through the
sand, and again it was lost entirely,
to again appear some distance down
the river, and again be lost in the
sand. Where we stopped for dinner,
our driver took a shovel and dug a
little hole in the sand, and then took
his horses out to feed and water
them. By this time the hole was
filled with clear, pure water, and man
and beast drank heartily before We
ate our lunch. Our lunch consisted
of some food that had been prepared
for us by a Chinaman. After resting
for an hour, we proceeded on our
way, passing the village of Genober-
acha, where we saw the ruins of an
old copper smelter over a 100 years
old. Thence we proceeded on down
the river, and about sunset We reached
the town of Bacuachi, where We spent
the night. This is town of about
1900 people, all Mexicans. The town
is laid off in streets about Is feet
wide, and the houses are built entirely
of adobe brick. These brick are
about 6 by 8 by Is inches, made of
clay and grass, and sun-dried. The
houses are all small and low, none of
them being over IL feet high, and the
walls are unbroken. there being no
windows in the buildings at all. Our
supper consisted of tortillas. a kind
, of bread made of wheat, and very
thin like a wafer and some native
! beans, called by the natives frejoles.
The natives were exceedingly cour-
;teous and obliging. and in their lin
tied way did all they could to make
rus welcome and comfortable. We
were supplied with cots to sleep on,
and at daylight we were summoned
to breakfast. We had given an order
there the night before for half
dozen eggs and a chicken to use as a
lunch the following day. The eggs
cost us $1.00 and the chicken $l.50
The chicken had been skinned, as we
skin a rabbit, and boiled and stuffed
with Irish potatoes and garlic. We
ate but little Of that fowl, and turned
it over to the driver for his dinner
He set to work on it with hearty
goodwill, but soon he grew sick OF
it. and cursing the cook in a true
American style, he flung the carcass
over the bluff and into the river.
We reached Arizpe about the mid
die Of the afternoon. This is a town
Of some $500 inhabitants, is the
county site Of the district Of Arizpe,
and a town Of great local Importance
1t sits back about half mile from
the river, on beautiful table land
and is built Of the same kind Of adobe
brick and resembles largely all the
Mexican towns we saw. 1t was the
capital of all that territory ceded by
the Mexican government to Nhe
United States, and comprising tbs
present states Of California, Nevada
Colorado, Utah and the Territories Of
New Mexico and Arizona, as we'll al
the present State Of Sonora. Here