El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-14

~EXICO CITY, Mex June III
M want to tell you of the vast
AV4 quantities Of sold, silver and
conner which. Notwithstanding the I'E-
olution. Mexico is taking out or Uhe
earth. The rebels and the bancitu are
retarding mining in some localities tcI
most Of the properties are being Ilh
at their full capacity, ana the cutpuI
this year VIII run high into the tens Ct
millions OF dollars We have now, IL Is
estimated, more shan z22,0o0,0o0 -et Gooa
hard American dollars invested IN Mex
ican mines and our people are large
owners In ailnlst every mineral region.
There are American mining engineers
and pr0spect0rs even now investigating
some parts Of :he country, and / am
told there are many miner q, ~ TO '''---
which have hardly Deen s0uchea-
Worlds Treasure Vault
This land OF Mexico is the WOrLd
great treasure vault II mas Det- pr
ducing silver and gold Tor more ma
9T0 Years and since the discovery OF
America its total yield OF lhe pI SCL lg
metals mas been between 1olI anu ~
third Of all the silver now IN use upO-t5
earth and its total output or gold and
silver IS SO percent more man IL ~ ~
money which is now IN clrculatlon ~
4he United states. In other WOI as, u
Won will take all the gOlC COINS ia ti i
country. including the plliloh ~ -
treasury, all Of the SILVER NJ, G01-S 80 n
amounting to 500, 100000 or byy,vUV'vVy,
aU of the quarters, hair dollars anu
dimes. all of the treasury nOLes1 alL1
an OF the United states ana nallollaA
hank notes. all the gold and silver GER
rfffcates and, in short, every QO-laL
worth Of silver and gold com anu ef1
hit of currency, and shovel them 10
eether into one pile, LhaL PIE Wot s7
Rot ecr1aI the value by 500 or lOOO NH
lion dollars the money that mas come
ont of lLeLicC's mines me alnOu -
greater than all We nave ~ ~ - ~
banks and four times as plS as our Ia
The Output Increasing.
More than this, the quantity Of met
ais mined is steadily increasing; ~ ~
me history Of the country ana Ins-L o.
1908 was nearly as great 4oqay ne
800 ranks at the head Of the SILVER pro-
ducers 1t is fifth among all lhOse IN
y-nfch cold is mined, and TINS IS -
notwithstanding much OF me IllL i IS -
bv old and WasueIuI Hl5LnoeS anu f -
there are Localities conIal nlng, Lll-l 5 -
deposits which have scarcely Deeh
III Is said that three-fourths Of the
mineral possibilities are as yet une1-
plored. And moreover me Ll l -, -
rapidly going into the hands OF -Al--s ~ i
cans who are operating them after the
most modern methods The new sILtl-
--- nd tho eva hide process are taxing
the places of the mule crusners anu
nario methods; and the percentage U
gold and silver gotten Out on nc y.
is on the steady increase ~ W ~ -t-
mast 10 wears almost $6OO-UUUrUUy WOI u
81 gold and silver have Deen L@h , oo-
of Mexico, and in 1871 me me - II -
duced Welded sS1,000.0OO- since. ~ -
Mexico has produced more Lhan S1vVv--
COO 600 worth OF gold ana sllEeE, a---
there are now over 10000 mines IN, IN % %
Grafton. with something IKE -'0O0'oo'
acres Of mineral properties
sIexico's Big Silver Mines.
The silver mines Of Mexico have
formed the chief revenue OF the GO uH
try for more than century anu ~, -
ever before. Some OF the mines ~
Welded phenomenal quantities LLlo9,7
about Zacatecas have produced more
than 1000. 600, 600, and those o.
S--lfE-r1Fra have fielded four OF i've
hundred millions To-Day SILVER MN --t H
is going on all over the cOunlL4 - 4 --S
PachuCa district IN the STATE on LL- 80.
go has a large number OF proper LsS,
half of which belong TO the mo ueL
7T0r-a company. which is SUBSIDIARY
Of the United States Smelling and MIN
Ill me most Of these mines belonged TO
4T,a ATavfcaus who had been working
them for hundreds Of years Dy the olu
patio process me AIIlei-cels nv
nur in modern machinery Ihey are
going down far below the ueplhs
reached by the MeZicans, and DeIW cen
1903 and 1910 they mad palu over g.
100000 in DIVIDENDS. go.
in the same region are the santa
Gertrudfs mines, registered IN Great
Britain at a capital Of sl,5OO,OOg- ana
there are other companies when are
GuunajuatO and chihuahua.
In Guanaiuato the Americans have
renovated and increased the silver min
Ing Industry. which has been in opera
ton there for more than zoo years
They have sunk their shafts far below
those OF the NeXicans and have put I'D
enormous mills capable Of dealing with
hundreds of thousands Of tons OF ore
every year. They get their power from
mining with the most modern Hacnln-
erv. In 1911 the output OF that region
was more than S14.000,O0O-
Chfhuahua's Rich Mines
A little farther north in Chihuahua,
are silver mines which have been Oper-
arad for more than three centuries and
which are still working, the output OF
the district running now from one 70
two million dollars per year In THIS
regisn is the BatOpilas mine, which was
mOdernized by the late Gov Shepherd:
bv the American Mining and Smelling
company. and the famous Parral mine,
whose estimated output for the present
year VIII be $4,000 0OQ.
In San Luis POtOsi the richest dis
frfcr is CarOrce. which has silver and
lead mixed with gold. and in Durango
there are deposits formed Of a network
of silver veins mixed with iron and
other metals. In OaLaca there are