El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-21

years have made II pay some INNS ll>S
$4,000. GOO in dlFllellus- s -r-
mo Real del Monte was owned 100
years ~ hv a mule driver named Ter
rerOs. He developed Ine NINE ana -
came the Coal OH Jonhhle OF ms
time Ne loaned the king of spain q
million dollars. and presented him WIN
ee'v-r-a1 ---grshiDs fully equipped IN
return the king gave MN q ny .t. On mt
biIifv. and he was known as I1e GU my
Of 1a-Ia You may see ms ouS- On
~ go f +be national paWnSnlp
here iu Mexico City He gave w
money to found that ms u.-ol-- ~
sum was 100000 ana Jue 60 ,C7,e,-
heat The insurers by lOanlnS none
- of q low rate of interest.
Co-r+ PegIa once asked Ine hlHS vi
Spain TO come over anu - lie Of
ing that he would plate IHe +" 90 -,7,r-
bis bedroom with silver anu 49, 80
the paths upon which ne "'l-l-1~
the place with silver paIS-
Fortunes Lost and Won.
e.bor+1,- after count Regla's deaIn
s771,+e-~eDaar river burst into the L'eaL
del Monte. and it was TuU5 5L-.o-it,s5
when Humboldt came 49, r(,---,7slf
its possibilities and ms IePol Trbi,b
the basis for a mining cIaAe III
the uroDertv was caplJdllleu GU
fered in England The StoCh " - 5,I-j
great demand and the S3VU sA1l - 80
as high as SSo,Ovu eecu IN tro71e-T1f
market Cornish miners were DIous77-l1
over and shipIoads of machlheA 30
stalled. During the next 20 years 80
100000 were spent IN opela---t7 IL
property and the output WaS ~
three-fourths of that anlou -
cO-nnar-- finally went bankrupt ana the
mine went into the hands OF O.I 49,,
who are said to have taken SUM -
like $4,000, 600 worth OF metal -
if The men who own 1t now Aau 20
nav several millions in assessments pc
fore they could make 1t again pay, ~
mn to Tu1v. 1910. they had received
81 ,405, 600 in dividends
Wonderful Mines Of La Luz.
The mines about GuanaJuato, when
are now turning out mllllOnS LOT <ALLl'-
cans originated through the discovery
~ +ha ia Luz mine, out of which more
tFa1 $500 100000 in silver was TAKEN
This mineral region was known 70 VI
tez and the La Luz mine was QlscOF-
cred i'm l547. only So years after GoluIn-
bus made his first voyage II W.
formed by q company Of Spanish Sol
dfers. who made a fire on a roCk ~
keen warm and were amazed TO lllo
DuddIes of silver amid the flames.
They then investigated and 1ounu
that the country about was ruu OF sll-
yer. They began mining with lndlaus'
carving the sacks Of ore 10 the sur
face by means OF q notcneo pore L'IL
indian had a bag Of this ore on ms
hack and he climbed with II out or the
mine In this way hundreds OF NIL
lions Of dollars worth of ore was taken
Another
covered right near the La Luz was Jle
Valencfana From 1850 to 1857 TINS
mine produced more than SSO00Oo0Oo
in silver. and it was mined In the same
rude way
Bought by Americans
Later on these mines stopped work
ing. and became filled with water Iney
were then bought by American synQl-
Gates. and are now being operated with
the best OF mining machinery A sIe-I
electric plant has been installed lHe
power for which is brought Ior more
than 100 miles; and some Of the old
dumps are being worked over IL Is
claimed there is enough ore IN the
dumps TO keep the smelterS running
for u years without going down INTO
the mines. and that the average cost OF
production viii be less than 90 cents
per ton. Among the companies now
0peratine there are the GuanaJaulO
Consolidated Mining and Al-llnS COM
pany. the GuanajautO DeVelopmenl
COMPANY the GuanajuatO Reduction ana
Mines cOmDauy. and the GuanaJuaJo
AmaIgamated Gold Mines company. all
belonging TO United states capitalists
The Batopiias and tnrrnl Wines.
Other mines which have been oper-
ated for hundreds OF years and which
are in existence today, are in Chlhua-
hua ZaCateCaS, Sonora and elsewhere
The Batopilas mine when boss SAep-
herd reclaimed. had been operated Tor
generations before him, and the mines
Of Parral one of which has given the
peOn mining king. Alvarado, ms mil
lions was in a territory which was wen
known at the time COrteZ died In 41uU
the mines there were operated BY lOOU
miners. most Of whom were indian
slaves; they worked under the laSn ana
for q century or so sent a STEADY
stream Of silver across the ocean
The work was so hard that the in
dams revenEed themselves by flooding
the mines. and they remained unusued
until Americans pumped out the water
Peon Mining king.
As to AIvarado. he was bitterly poor
until ne made his great strike. lie IS
now worth tens Of millions and there
are some who put his possessions at
$4,000, 600 ] am told that he flrst
bought every luxury he could think or,
building a great palace, which he filled
with pianos and canary birds TO such
an extent that il was known as the
house of song. He also became charlta-
BILE and one Christmas day gave away
10O0 600 silver dollars, piinE the money
on truck and scattering II ABOUT
among the poems of Parral This is
the same man who once said he would
give S10,0OO,000 to the poor of his coun-
try He even offered 10 pay the ma
tional debt.
Another bonanza king took out 3d.
600. 600 ounces of silver from one mine
IN j. years and then went to Europe to
spend it. He lived as extravagantly as
he could. but left something IKE SOU
100000 for his heirs to fight over.
Stories Of Lost Mines.
The extent of the mining territory
here is so great that you can get ira
ditiOns of lost mines from all parts OF
the country. The mining regions are
TO be found in almost every states, but
the principal ones are in central and
western Mexico. They run from the
border of the United States as far
down as OaXaca, a distance as long as
from New York to Oklahoma City, and
they so from there westward as far as
from New York to Boston. The best
mines are on the western slopes Of the
mountains at from half a mile to
mile and a half above the sea level.
Gold is spread over a vast area Of the
Sierra Madre. and there are placers in
Sonora and elsewhere The prospectors
best chance is to take one of the dis
used workings or lost mines and follow
it back to the original vein. / am told
that there is a 12,0OO-acre ranch in So
nora every square yard Of which gives
color to the prOspectOr's pan. The
source of this gold was looked for for
generations. and was finally found in
a hill 10 miles away. but the vein had
been worked out. Some day the old
ranch may be run through the mill for
the scattering bits Of flour gold it con-
tains.