The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-08


made South Africa famous. He was
one of the worlds greatest philan-
thropists, leaving large part of
his great fortune for the education
of the youth from every country,
and was recognized as one of the
= richest and most successful miners
of the world.
Extract from speech made by
+ him few months before he died:
''In my opinion the richest min
ing countries in the world are Mex
Mexico And while Providence has
cast my lot in the opposite section
of the globe, / am not blind to the
consensus of opinion as expressed
by scientists and experts that Mex
leo will one day furnish the gold,
silver, copper and precious stones
that will build the empires of to-
morrow and make the future cities
of the world veritable new Jerusa-
lens.
II may not live to see the full
fillment of this prediction regarding
Mexico, the land of Manana, but
many of you will, and II you are
wide awake, as l believe you are.
you will avail yourself of interests
and positions in the rising tide of
the worlds wealth from the mines
of that Aztec country in the western
world"
AS an illustration of the richness
of Mexican mines it may be said
that one camp alone, the ancient
city of Guanajuato, has produced
two-fifths of the entire amount OF
silver current in the world, and this
by the most primitive methods and
without the aid of the vast amount
of capital now available for the
opening and development of mining
enterprises.
Mexican mines made Spain the
richest empire in the world and
France, England and the United
States have been greatly enriched
from the same source.
The development of the mines
there has been slow owing to wars
and the instability of the govern.
ment. The war with the Spaniards
the French and the Americans, ant
the numerous revolutions among
the Mexican people themselves hav'
all retarded the development of tn,
mineral wealth of the country.
But there has been recent grea
change in the conditions in Mexico
1 the wars have been stopped, tn
revolutions suppressed and our lit
tie sister republic is again takin,
rank as the greatest mining countr.
in the world. American capital, Am
erican machinery and American
skill and energy are now dominat
ing its enormous mineral resource,
and the official recorded production
Of $4,000, 100000 will be far ex
ceeded in the near future. TIL.
crude and primitive methods for re
duction OF ores, which in many cas-
es did not recover over so per cen
Of the values, are being replaced by
the most up-to-date methods.
Formerly a land of revolutions
capital avoided the insecurity of in
vesting In Mexico, until the presen
stable government of Presiden
Diaz. Millions of dollars of Ameri
can moneysH now being invested IL
Mexican mines, and their enormou.
production which formerly enriched
the grandees of Spain will be great
~ increased and hereafter be pait
to enterprising American Investors
The awakening of Mexico is an &C
complished fact. She has aroused
from her slumbers and is agair
leading the world in the production
Of the precious metals. The secont
conquest OF the land Of the Monte
zumas Is now on, not by force o.
arms this time but by the pleasant
persuasive, irrisistable influence o.
the almighty dollar-the American
dollar. Cecil Rhodes prediction IL
being fulfilled to the letter and ths
Americans, the most wide-awake
energetic and enterprising people OF
earth, are reaping the reward.
Guanajuato, Mexico.
"Guanajuato, founded In 1864
owes its existence and prosperity tt
the fact that 1t is in the centre Of
THE GREATEST MINING DIS
TRICT IN THE WORLD. Ency
clopcdia Britannica. (vol. xI, Page
206.)
;. Mining has been carried on In
i Euanajuato for three hundred and
fifty years.
Its deposits of gold and silver
have been world-famed for centur.
les; a Frenchman took cut OF one
mine in 1743, $4,000 100000, and
out Of another mine in 1853, $12,.