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Show MEXICO 7 By Frederic JL Haslrin MeXICO CITTWrcw eatioas sra . ea favored ia the Mttn ef miaerai Malta as atesiea. Ham-beldt Ham-beldt aaea called lata eoontrT I Ik trnaeara house af the world. Wkee oaa consider tkat a a told militoae have beea takes aat of iu gold aad silver miaee aad tkat three tourthe af all MfiKu aiaiaf tar rilory is aa yat aa- I al ai t ad Ham boldt a pictare doas ao aaam ta ba aaar-drawa. aaar-drawa. Cartaialy tkara sra bat faw of tha Batik vaad by ajodara eirihaa tioa tka ara aat foaad kara ia abwa-daat abwa-daat qaaatity. B-airiaa B-airiaa ita matala Maiira kaa rick da poaits af praaieua ataaaa, .its a p a I Biaaa boiaf famad tkraagkaat tka amrld fn tka abaa- at4 thmt aaarly tea miluoa bsrrala af ail wara oaaamd. Hot salt watar (radaally raplaead tka oil aad tha tow waa animated at 14,000 barrels per day. Tka oil boaiaeas ia Meiieo baa da-valapad da-valapad at a very opportaaa tiaM. Tka railroads af tka eoaatry, awiaa ta tka eoat af aeaJ, kara baaa pradiaposrd ta aaa oil aa fuel for tkeir aasiaaa. Tkc Takuaatapaa reata waa tka Irat railroad rail-road ia Mexico ta Biaka tka axpan-airot, axpan-airot, aad it proved ao aureaaaful tkat tka Mexican iroaaniiBaBt koraa to equip all af ita aooO milea af railroad witk ail buraina; eariaaa. All af the- sew eagiaea arriarad are equipped witk ail baraera. Burrars auida around tka gulf eaaet isdieata that tka aanply af ail ia greater thaa waa aat i mated aad. in abuadaaea will doobtleaa prove a treat stimulant ta every kind of industry. It ea happens that tke miaeral la ode af Max ire extead from tka Ameriraa frontier to the city af Oaxaea, along the !ise af tka Mexico esteaaioa of the Roeky auxaataiae, while tha ail ftelde earer the eaaataj plaias around the Elf f Mexico, thaa making the aa-s aa-s eoaatry a miaeral region, e There ara a great naay Ameriraa Briaiag aampaaiea eperating ia Mexico. Tka Ameriraa Smelting and - Befiaiag aompaay, iaearporatad Badar tba laws af New Jeraey, is tha Onggeakeim prop-ertr. prop-ertr. It aaa a capital stock of 100.-000,000 100.-000,000 aad waa tka pioaaer in the iatroduetioa of BMtdera smelting pra-esessa. pra-esessa. It is aow at tha kead of tke iadoatry ia tka republic. Ita smelters, located at Moaterey, Agiiasralieates sad Ckihaahaa hare a eombiaed eapaei-ty eapaei-ty of mora thaa 100,000 toaa af ara a year. Tka Bolee mine, operated under a Kreah ekartar, ia auppooed to be eoa-t eoa-t relied by tha Preark kouee of Roth sekild. It ia exemoi from all federal aad local taxes except si amp taxes nntil December of aast year, and from all ens tome aad local dues until 1942. The El Ore Mining aad Bailway company, limited, occupies a rather peculiar situation). situa-tion). It ia aa English aompaay which was organised to take Orer tba capital stack af tha Amerieaa Mining company, com-pany, incorporated binder the laws of the state of Went Virginia, aad tba Amerieaa Ameri-eaa Bailway and Xaimber company, incorporated in-corporated aader tha laws af tha state of New Jeraea. Ita profits amoant to approximately a sullies dollars a year. Tba anal miaea af Mexico ara amour daare sad beanty of tkeir pradaet. Mexico today eeeapiea Brat rank among tke aatione af the world ia the production af stiver. Its xaaaee bare beea worked from times as remote that evea tradition does aot record them. Long before tha Astee Indiana ewarmed down from tba aortk aad took siesta aioa af tha land af tha Telteee. stlrer miaea af seemingly inexhaustible rich nees aad baaa worked fer saeoanted years. When Cartas invaded tha land of the Moateeumaa be took frees it mora thaa serea milliea dollars worth of gold aad silver. Silver is eemetimes found In auggets af vaet proportions. One of these, discovered ia the etate of Sonera, near tba American frontier, weighed 1760 panada. Tba predaetioa of silver has eaaeed ta ba as prostable as it aaea waa, awing ta the d celiac ia tha market value af tba fanned metal. Tha aaaua! eatpnt af silver amounts ta approximately 77,000,000 peooa. It was hoped by tka Mexlraaa tkat the improvemeat af trade eeaditioBS in foreign markets would result la SB increasing demand for silver ia eueh countries aa India and Ckina, tha pria-eipal pria-eipal aeers af tba white metal. It waa tkought that ia eoaaeetioa with the gradually diminishing supply of bar silver it would bring about aa im-provemeat im-provemeat af arleea. Bat iust at the tha richest ia tba world. Ia working them tba apal-beariag at one is drilled ant with steal drills, brought ta the surface sur-face aa the hacks of peon laborers, broken lata small pieces witk hammers and thea aeat to tha lapidaries, wba palish pal-ish tha atoae. Tha richest opal regioa of Mexico is to ba found ia the section sronad Queretara, in eeatral. Mexico, where the "rock formations are ao full of opal that traces af tha mineral may ba saaa in tha etoaee need for building porneeee. There ara many varieties of opala aad they aall at figures varying from a few rente each to a thoasand neeee a niece. The Mexican peon has found that he can cover np tha defects of imperfect stosea try giving them a hath af ail aad tha traveler who bnya his supply of onals from aa Irresponsible Irresponsi-ble render is almost certain to be cheated. Tha jade of Mexico is foaad is a great away of tba ancient Indian tombs of the republic la tha shape of oddly vrrangnt amnlete, masks and beads. Jade at aaa time was used for filling the teetk of Mexican Indiana. Many skulls of undoubted aatiouity kave beea found whose teetk were inlaid with pea-green jade. Borne of those teetk, takea from hulls ta Yucatae, may ba seen ia the Pes body museum at Harvard university. Oays exists in large deposits around tha city af Pueblo. The aays worker ef that eity ara among tha moat famous ia tha world aad tha curios made by them and sold in the ahopa of Mexico ara ia maay intrfaoeeo perfect epecimeae af the lapidary 's art. Oaa may buy a senveair paper weight of onyx for a few cents or a opieadid mantel ornament orna-ment easting hundreds af doilara. The interior of the new et.000,000 poetoffice building ia Mexico City ia finished in ones from tba Pueblo miaea. The architect ar-chitect of this structure was an Italian, bat tha work waa exernted bv Mexican workmen, aad their efforta in interior time that it seamed aa if thia hope waa ta ba realised a sew competitor appeared on the eeeae, aad silver went still lower. Tha extension af a railroad rail-road ia Canada waa tka in ease af dia-eoveriag dia-eoveriag rick deposits af silver mixed witk cobeJt aad nickel. Ia 1010 the output af these minea araouated ' to one aixth of the world a total production produc-tion af silver. Tha coat of mining aad treatment ia so amall aad tha assay ia maay of tka veins so great, ia some eases averaging mora thaa S0O0 ounce per ton, that tka effect af this discovery discov-ery aaa baaa to drive tba price of silver sil-ver down aad almost swamp th world's markets. Mexico suffer most severely by thia, owing to the fact that ataay af ita atiaea p reduce ao thing but silver. But what Mexico is losing ia silver i betas made sp ia th prodaetiea of gold. Last year the output af the Mexican Mex-ican gold minea amounted to 45,000,-000, 45,000,-000, an increase of ,0K,000 ever the year 10 and 1007. Thia Inareoee la partly daa to tk discovery of new miaea, bat mainly to tha further application appli-cation ef tha ryaaida process to the treatmaat af gold silver area. Tk Seal del Ore mine in Mexieo is aaa af the largest gold minea ia tb world. It ha beea worked from a period far astedatiac the Bpaaiah eeeupatioa sad i etill prodariag large quMtitiea af the preeioua metal. Thar ara upward of 1000 copper mines ia tha republic, eosae en them possessing depoaita af rimirhable rich-seas. rich-seas. Those at Canssaa ara said to ba tha third largest ia tha entire world. Tba annual entpat af copper spproxiaatea jlJ)On,000. Tba territory terri-tory of Lower Califeraia fc seated ef tha Urgaat output from a aisgie mms last year, evea ourpaosing th record of tha (ana aea miaea. Thia was the Boilee miae, with a product ioa of 11, 000 metric toaa of aoDoer. Tha United Btatea is tha principal consumer of Mexican copper, using a early one-haU of the entire eat put. Nearly all of tha ether metale which ara produced in tha Uaitod statea ar also found ia Mexico. Tba production of petroleum promisee ta beroaae aae of the leading industries af the eoaatry, eoaa-try, tha regioa between tha mouth of the Bio Grande nad tha penineula of Yucatan appearing ta ba underlaid with vast quantities af it Only recently re-cently aa oil well was opened nbt far from Tampiro with a flow which places it ia the front rank of oil prodtrcinf wells in th world. It waa feared for awhile that it would ba impossible to cap thia vaet stream of ail, but after many days of strenuous work tha efforts ef-forts were sunccsafnl. Two years ago tha Pennsylvania Oil company waa engaged en-gaged is drilling tha Doa Bocae wall, located fifty miles eouth ef TetnpifO and tea mile in lead from tha gulf. When th drill had reached a depth of 1124 feet it apparently penetrated a ehaaae) connecting with the oil bearing bear-ing stratum. The gaa pressure blew out the tool aad cawing aad the spouting spout-ing oil took Ire almost immediately, continuing ta burn for nearly two months, daring which time it waa est I decoration ar ngardedr by competent judge aa among tha fineet examples of such work in the world. In come mine verr modem profess ef handling th material and extracting tha metal ia need, while st other minee the aam aid processes that were used centuries ago are etill ia aee. Peons etil) carry tha par dirt out af tha minea oa "chicken ladders" as they did ia tha day of Spaniah rule. It la thea t oread eat sad greaiad into powder with huge stnns rollern. drawn by mules. After beina rowdejrecL the dirt ia carried car-ried to a paved court. Whoa it ia about two feet deep, handaful af ealt, blue vitriol aad quicksilver ara strews over it in ejuaatitiae anfficient to produce proper amalgamation. Then a herd of mule ia drives aver it nntil tha whole becomes a mase af thoroughly mixed mud a process often requiring as maeh aa four weeks. Tkea it is carried to tke was b era. The silver-mercury amalgam, amal-gam, being heavy, remain behind, while tha mud ia wnahed eat. Then the amalgam is carried to a diatillery, where the silver aad th mercury are divorced, the silver ta be made into ln-gota ln-gota of pure metal, aad tha ouickailver to become the affiarty which steals aa-other aa-other lot ef ailver from ita age-long rota pan ion dirt. Tonam tow M exica.' VL BAJLWAT DBVaTLOPMnrT. |