Show INDIANS MINING INDIANS MINING I QUICKSilVER ORE ALPINE Tex Jan 22 tB 2 22 By Y life Associated Press Pros Press ing in th the rugged mountains of west south south south- southwest west Texas stolid Indians Indiana today loday are mining for Its Ite it treasure of or quick Quick- Quicksilver quicksilver quicksilver silver the red blood ore are their their- fore fore- forefathers tore father fathers used as The miners minors live In villages that are aro silent as the th tomb Far be- be beneat beneat neat be-neat neat surface they spend their waking hours taking from the th hills a which civilization dis- dis discovered discovered dis discovered covered and dm as aa a its own and Waldron 90 SO miles from a a railroad are the center of ofa ofa ofa a district where the expected open open- openIng opening open Ing of ot a new mine may give elve Texas Texa first rank In the United Stats pro pro- production production production of ot quicksilver The rhe state now ranks second WORKED 30 YE RS For 30 years hardy men have been undermining the mountains for the cinnabar ore from which mercur mercury Is extracted One com com- company company pany has produced worth of shimmering metal dur- dur during during Ing dur-Ing ing the th last quarter of a century The miners are arc Indians an and 1 Mexicans and the villages ar are of adobe huts huta During the da day while the men are ar In the th ground the women r remain maln In tn the houses and the Is II rarely broken The Tho streets between the th rows rowl row of ot squat dw dwelling are deserted except forthe for forthe forthe the occasional oc appearance of an Indian woman carrying water In two rawhide bags bf suspended d from froma troma a pole a ro her shoulder In n prim prim- primitive primitive fashion USED BY DY SAVAGES s One ot of o the th mines mino contains contain an Immen Immense cavern which Is I reached by a foot toot ladder placed there ther years ago aco by the primitive tribes The surrounding bluffs are decor decor- d decorated decorated cor- cor with man many Indian pictographs and hieroglyphics hierOglyphiC In red pigment 00 |