Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-25
Mexican Silver Mines

A New York Dispatch TO the Wash,
ington Post. says:
Now they've got it that Pedro Al
varado Is broke" said New Yorker,
VINO is engaged In silver mining at
Pinos Atlas, in the province Of Chihna'
hau Mexico Il read in the papers
o couple OF days ago that Pedro Al
varado, MeXico's noted mine owning
p"On.. was busted TO the final stage
OF bustedness, that presently he would
be- looking for a job for 40 cents
day. and all that sort of nane rot.
"Of course II isn't true. Hardly
ANYTHING that ever has been printed
in this country about Pedro Alvarado
is true. Even the stories about the
personally OF the peon himself are
hOpelessly muddied. A while ago ,
read, somewhere. that instead of H.
ing half-lndian gre aser-which h"
is-Pedro Is really a straight-out de-
scendant of pure Castilans-whtch IS
uura moonshine. First you'll read up
here that Pedro's mining holdings are
utterly yalueless, and then aga'h
volt. read that the mirHs he owns and
operate make the product OF Goiconda
and Ophir seem like the s~cepins'
of a tinplate factory.
Perhaps YOU recall that aboht
three months ago there was a spi"nhi'
ferrous paragraph adri:t in the news
papers to the musical effect that tn"
auriferous PeOn Pedro had begged
President Porfiio Diaz Of Mexico. Tor
the distinguished privilege Of paying
of the national debt of Mexico.
Pedro Was Fretfui.
The Mexican national debt Is
tr;flins little matter OF some hundreds
OF millions. and Pedro the peon was
represented as feeling fretful, not u
say perturbed. over the fact that Ms
beloved country owed anybody any
thing. and so--the yarn went OHIO
asked Diaz to let him square every
body up to whom Mexico owed any
thing 40 that the ancient land OF Mon
tezuma sould take fresh start ana
sail of once more on an even Keel
81 to speak.
President Diaz was represented az
having declined this magnanimoas Vi.
fer on the ground that he dldnt iee'
&c il he could exactly stomach the
idea of having the country OF whrh
he ia the boss wriggle out OF the
hands of its creditors through the
benefcence Of a peon, and all ike
that way.
Even more recently q good many
newspapers in this country. East ana
West urinted an offhand item to the
effect that a French syndicate hao
closed a deal with Pedro the peon
whereby the Calls syndicate was 70
take over Aivarado's mines for rnat an
su.b little piece CT gum and Cigarette
money SIS. O0O. 900 in gold. nos in mi's
tickets rain checks or tin tags, De u
understood, but in gold.
.These stories which gain creoehce
in the United States about Pedro Al
varado are exceedingly tiresome. II
occassonally b!ivcrting~ to MeSicahs'
ana Americans living in Mexico wh'
know the facts.
Pedro in HIS Palace
"AIyarado had been portrayed w
hero ,s a man so muCH Iicher than
anybody else on Garth mat ne "as
Mr.. RockcfelIer look like come cnet
IIv down and ont p' rscn standing WIS.,
fully in the bread line. Not SO ons
apo an American magazine-whict
was Of conrse imposed upon-puisis q
% a psct,re Of Pedro AlyaraSo
tSNe1ican palacr'-a chalk drawing q
/. hu;,d;nr of quit m impossible mag
| n;fccnce hooking like a sort 81 arch'
itectnraI cross between the Brussen
! and Patcrhof palace and the Lhraf!
~ ~or~ress in Washington.
TN this palace Pedro the peo' wa
-c,rason,ed a. having an ivory am
gold trimmed pian" In ever room, ~
Iclu;dinx the scull;on's- drawing TOW.
and II was told that In all OF the mu'
!ti.udiuous patois q the palace the''
-cre farhIe fountains sporting FTenc'
ncrfynes ana tolic- waters imporfe'
rom Carl by tho shipaoads and n'se'
nvcr the mountains on burro bach
xb,jiy regardless of cost.
| -su,omaiic harris were represen"'
nc being huiI; int" inches In the wan
,,ound the grounds 81 PEDRO IN
go. .naiacc' and the air vas sal
L. 10 vih,ar- day and night with Tn
.o,sc, strains 81 these ingenious mus
tcai contraptions.
when quality foiks-aecordins .
,hi, saue hashhreSh narra'iye-t"o
dinner with Prdro he was pictured
vcntinr csrriag' 5. zach drawn b. 81
80 init. siIvr- shod mules Wit
.oI, harness fittings. In fetch eac
-, ana rhcn the guests depart"
from the food r"i7o was portray
In. stalking zach one "a them IN 70
Icarri.rr and mul"s in which he va
ihroush, ioSpthrr with the gold dsshe
-Is-s ,hn Srcst had rarteEen 9