The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-17
THE WORDS TREASURE VAINT

ing and Mining Company ~
ne most Of these mines halo,oa
sne Mexlcans. who had been wnrLinr
na, l LOT hundreds Of years BY the old
put n p,oos The Americans have
put IN modern machinery. They arc
gong down far below tho dsn,hs
reached by the Mexicans. and hetraan
aSoo and 1910 they had paid ov.r
>z.oOO, DOC in dividends.
IN lne same region are the Santa
6ei'rudls mines, registered in Great
DrItaln at a capital of $500. 600 and
there are other companie Viii 81" 80
doing we'll. "'h are
1uanahuatO and Chihuahua.
IN H~uanahuato the Americans have
ienoVated n increased the silver
mining industry, which has been N
operation there for more than 200
Years. lney nave sunk their shafts
Tar below those of the Mexicans and
have put up enormous mills canahle
Oh ueal1nS with hundreds Of thousands
OI TONS OF ore every year. They get
tnelr power from waterfalls $50 miles
distant and are mining with the most
modern machinery. In 1911 the out
put OF NAT region was more than
S14 ,000, 600.
A little farther north. in Chihuahua
are silver mines which have been on
Grated Tor more than three centuries
ana Wnlch are still working. the out
put Of the district unnine now from
one to two million dollars per wear.
In this region is the Batopllas mine.
which was mOdernized by the late
Governor Shepherd; the Santa Eulalia
mines, now controlled by the Ameri-
can Mining and Smelling COMPANY.
n the famous Parral mine. whose
estimated output for the present wear
will be $4,000, 600.
In San Luis Potosi the richest dis
trict is Catorce, which has silver and
lead mixed with gold, and in Du-
range there are deposits formed Of a
network Of silver veins mixed with
iron and other metals. In Oaxaca
there are more than a dozen mineral
zones, containing silver, gold, copper
and lead. and two of the mines there
have increased their production to
about $1,000, 600. There is also work
going on in Sonora, where in the past
was found the biggest lump Of silver
on record. It's weight was 2.75O
pounds, and it was discovered by d
poor Indian, although by a dispute as
to the ownership the whole went to
h crown.
The Gold in Mexico.
Mexico is now annually turning GU,
about twenty-five million dollars
worth of gold. The ountry has nev
beer as important in gold mining a:
IN silver mining, and today the bull
of its gold comes from silver vein:
which also carry more or less Of tn
yellow metal. The gold is a by-prod
uct of the silver.
J The chief gold-producing camp j:
! about Ell Orc, in the state Of Mexico
? where both French and English CAPT
tai are invested. This region is on,
z of the largest gold camps Of America
M it has some valuable mines. Thu
I Dos Estrellas has been paying owe
!. $1,000, 600 a year on a capital of $500,
I 600. and the Penoles has paid nearl.
100000 on a capitalization Of s125.
600. One Of the mines has a vein Q
s gold which,, in places, is thirty fee
wide.
There are also ~gold-bearing veins j
Sonora, SinalOa. Chihuahua, Oaxac
r and Lower California. In the las
e state are many placer mines. som
S of which are doing we'll. The mos
n Of M~ontezlma's gold must have com
q from placer mines, for one of hi
presents to Cortez was a Spanish he
met filled to the brim with grains q
gold. He also ent the Spanish gen
eral many ornam entS. shields and he
. NETS of pure gold, and two circula
plates of gold as large as carrlag
: wheels. The amount of gold take
from Montezuma and sent to Spai
is estimated to have been worth q
= least $1,000, OO0.
le Where Copper and Iron Are Kings.
In the future. however. the mean
metals are liable to gold ]
e the mineral production Of Mckee
ID The copper mined in 1910 and lSl
s. was worth more than all the gold pro
duced that year, and the iron poss
D bilities are such from the great irO
10 mountain at Durango that that grOs
ST metal will some day yield million
RS Today the three most important col
10 per mining enterprises are the Greer
81 Cananea and the Moctezuma and tn
Of Boleo. in Baja, California. The Bole
re mine has had a uniform output f
re nearly ten years and the Greer
20 Cananea produced in 1911 more tina
IN Al, 900, 900 pounds of copper. II
,e amount Of copper in sight IN WesteT
0. Mexico is beyond conception. ano tf
70 cOuntry is sure to be one of the grea
I'd est Of the copper producers TOR gel
90 eratiOnS to come.
1g AS to iron. new deposits or tn;
o. metal have been recently f0unO