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AbandBd Mines In Mexico May Yield
Millions Uifer Mder iv Methods f Work
-By-
Frank G. Carpenter
Mines of La Luz .Have
Hundreds of Millions and are How Okned By Americans Who Will Woric Them Again
MBXIOO CITY. MEXICO. June
21. Since I came to Mexico
my eyes have been bulging at
the stories I hear of the lost treas
ures of Merieo. They ootne from M
prospectors, from mining engineers ana
and from men posted as to the Mexican
mineral territory. At one College of
Mines, in this city, you may see gold
and silver from workings which once
turned oat millions, but are now filled
ith water; and in the government
records are notes of vast properoea
w hich have long since been abandoned.
When Alexander Humboldt, the great
scientist, traveled over Mexico, more
than a centnry ago, he counted 3tt0
mines, and I am told that fully 2000 of
these are not now in existence. Of some
the very records have been lost.
and they are amr known mttij by tra
dition. Abandoned Mlees.
When Mexico got its Independence
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(CpyrlhllS,lr Frank C, Carpenter)
by overthrowing the rule of Spain it
entered upon an era of revolution
which lasted for years. During that
time some of the most profitable mines
were abandoned. The water rushed in,
their works were destroyed, and for a
time their very existence was blotted
from the knowledge of man. There are
still many old dumps and the remains
of old workings, scattered here and
there, throughout the whole Mexican
territory.
Some of these old dumps are said
to contain fortunes. It used to be that
a mine had to produce at least $30 to
the ton to be worth operating, so that
rich ore only was taken and the poor
left on the side. We have in the
United States mines which are now
paying well at less than $5 per ton,
and the cyanide and new smelting pro
cess are bringing out tens of mil
lions of dollars worth of gold and sil
ver that formerly went to waste.
Treasures ef the AiteeM.
Many of the mines of the Aztecs are
still to be found. When Cortes had
conquered Montezuma he got him to
send his taxgatberers out over the
country to make records of the loca
tion of the best mines. They brought
back an itemized list, but it is doubtful
whether it was a true one. Cortex was
even less successful in his attempts
to find where the Aztecs had buried
their areasures. He tried to screw
this information out of Guatemozin,
the nephew of Montezuma and his son
inlaw. This prince was tortured by
fire to make him disclose the secret.
He at first claimed there was no treas
ure, but finally said that the gold had
been thrown into the waters. Cortez
then searched the lakes about Mexico
City, but his divers found nothing, al
though they dug up a diso of pure
gold as big as a cart wheel out of the
garden of Guatemozin.
The treasures Montezuma are still
undiscovered. They are said to have
been worth $80,000,000, and there are
documents, in picture language. Which
itemize the shields, helmets, sandals
and plates of solid gold, and the gold
grains and dust which were worth
this great sum. One tradition locates
the burial site of the treasure at Coyo
acan, not far from Mexico City.
What Certez Get.
There is no question as to the extent
of the precious metals of the times of
the Aztecs. The king who preceded
Montezuma, was a miser and he had
collected a treasure which, Cortez says,
was greater than that possessed by
any monarch of Europe. Much of this
consisted of grains and nuggets of
gold and gold utensils and trinkets.
Cortez had a great part of it melted
and cast into ingots. He sent one
fifth of the product to Spain, and
among other things, a gold cannon,
which the Aztecs cast for him. and a
platter of gold so big that a 200 pound
hog could have been served upon It.
He describes how gold was sold in
birds' quills as an article of merchan
dise at Montezuma's capital, and ex
patiates upon the great beauty of the
shields, helmets and plates which were
carved by the Indians.
Old Workings l'ay Millions.
Some of the best mining properties
of today are old workings which have
been pumped out and reopened. Take
the Real del Monte near Fachuca, in
the state of Hidalgo. That mine was
yielding millions, when we were fight
ing with king George as to the tax
upon tea. It has been abandoned again
and again, and it is now owned by
Americans, who within the past five
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Tnt'TeafdMont was owned 1
yeaaJoVa mule "-:
cam? 'SSra Jvohnn.e--of his ,
Urne! He loaned the king of Spain a
million dollars, and ' WJ"m w"
several warships "&, n
rotni-n the king gave him a title or no- i
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n p..i. Tnu may see his oust o
JheRfert o75,em national Pawnsh.p ;
here in Mexico City. He j gave .the
to the poor at a low rate of V
Count Regla once M"Lit talm fav
Spain to come over and vis it """tf
tag that he would V
his bedroom with Jrlkpd about
the paths upon which he walked about
the place with silver bars.
Fortunes I " WoB' ,.
Shortiy after count Regis's death a
subterranean river burst into the Real
del Monte, and it was rJJJgJJ
when Humboldt came. He descrweo
Its possibilities . w"J2SLfwwch
the basis for a mining craze L " wn
the property was caPltalL. " ,n
fered in England J, JwJ0 3
great demand and the 8hfJ"80,
Is high as 80.000ean to the open
market. Cornish miners oun!
over and shiploads of ,cto(ry
stalled. During the next :
000,000 were spent in operating the
property and the output was only
three-fourths of that ?t-lidlK
company finally went bankrupt and the
mine went into the hands of others,
who are said to have taken fomething
like J40.000.000 worth of metal out or
It. The men who own it now tadto
pay several millions 1" assements be
fore they could make it again pay. but
up to July. 1910, they had received
$4,405,000 in dividends.
Wonderful Mines of I I-
.itAnt r:ionfiinii.tA. which
are now turning out millions for Amer
ieanTortrfnatea through the discovery
ottne La Luz mine, out of which more
than $800,000,000 in silver was taken.
This mineral region was known to Cor
tex and the La Lux mine was discov
ered lS 1547? only 55 years after Colum
Ls made his first voyage. It was
formed by a company of Spanish sol
diers, who made a fire on a rock to
keep warm and were amazed to find
puddles of silver amid the flames.
They then investigated and found
that the country about was full of sll
er They besan mining with Indians,
earning the sacks of .ore to the sur
face by means of a notched pole. Bach
indian had a bag of this ore on his
backed he climbed with it out of the
mine In this way hundreds of mil
lions' of dollars' worth of ore was taken
out Another mine more lately dis
covered right near the La Ltox was the
Valenciana. From 1760 to 1887 this
mine produced more than $300,000,000
in silver, and it was mined in the same
rude way.
Botight by American.
Later on these mines stopped work
ing, and became f Uled with water. They
were then bought by American syndi
cates, and are now being operated with
the .best of mining machinery. A great
electric plant has been installed, the
power for which Is brought for more
than 100 miles; and some of the old
dumps are being worked over. It is
claimed there Is enough ore in the
dumps to keep the smelters running
for 12 vears without going down Into
the mines, and that the average cost of
production will be less than 50 cents
per ton. Among the companies now
operating there are the Guanajauto
Consolidated Mining and Hilling com
pany the Guanajauto Development
company, the Guanajuato Reduction and
Mines company, and the Guanajuato
Amalgamated Gold Mines company, all
belonging to T-'nited States capitalists.
The Batopllan and Farrnl Mine".
Other mines which have been oper
ated for hundreds of years and which
are In existence today, are in Chihua
hua, Zacatecas. Sonora and elsewhere.
The Ba topi las mine, which boss Shep
herd reclaimed, had been operated for
generations before him, and the mines
of Parral. one of which has given the
peon mining king. Alvsrado, hU mil
lions, was in a territory which was well
known at the time Cortex died. In 100
the mines there were operated by 7000
miners, most of whom were Indian
slaves; they worked under the lash and
for a century or so sent a steady
stream of silver across the ocean.
The work was so hard that the In
dians revenged themselves by flooding
the mines, and they remained unusued
until Americans pumped out the water.
A Peem Miniate King.
As to Alvarado. he was bitterly poor
until he made his great strike. He is
now worth tens of millions, and there
are some who put his possessions at
$75,000,000. I am told that he first
bought every' luxury he could think of.
building a great palace, which he filled
with pianos and canary birds to such
an extent that it was known as the
house of song. He also became charita
ble, and one Christmas day gave away
100,000 silver dollars, piling the money
on a truck and scattering It about
among the peons of Parral. This Is
the same man who once said he 'would
give $10,000,000 to the poor of his coun
try. He even offered to pay the na
tional debt.
Another bonanza king took out 55.
000.000 ounces of silver from one mine
In 12 years and then went to Europe to
spend it. He lived as extravagantly as
ne coma, out leu svuraiuwia im ir
000,000 for his heirs to fight over.
Stories ef Lest Mines.
The extent of the mining territory
here is so great that you can get tra
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 go from there westward as far as
from New York to Boston. The best
mines are on the western slopes of the
mountain.-, at from half a mile to a
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 prospector's
best chance is to take one of the dis
used workings or lost mines and follow
it back to the original vein. I am told
that there is a 12.000-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. There are a number of old Spanish
mines which are worked out and others
which cannot be located. One of these
is the Tiaopa, which the Fima Indians
claim as once the greatest mining
property of all time, but of which the
records show no existence. Wonderful
stories are told of the San Nicholas
mine, in Tamaulipas. Which was aban
doned at the time of the struggle for
independence. According to tradition,
this mine was so rich that the streets
of the town were paved with silver, on
special occasions, and silver bullets
were cut from the ore.
Rock Heaim Sprinkled With Geld.
There is no doubt but that tne old
methods f mining have left fortunes in
silver an gold on the dumps. Many of
the mines were far away In the moun
tains and transportation was so costly
that only the best ores could be worked.
Tne methods were rude, the ore being
crushed between great stones, and the
metals taken out by the patio pocesa.
These methods are still used In some
of the mines worked by the natives.
1 have seen them gettine out siler
by the patio process. The ore Is first
ground to a powder and mixed with
water, until it forms a kind of a mud
Then a mixture of vitriol, salt anil
quiclvsiUer is added and six or elcht
blindfolded mules arc driven around
through the mud for hours until the
mm silver has crore through every
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silver itself remaining in the furnace.
Mining The.
A great deal ot silver and gold is
stolen by the Mexican miners. The aver
age Artec has but little idea of property
rights, and he takes what he can find
as a gift from Ood. In some of the
mines the workers are BearcheJ by
three different sets of men. The peons
will conceal the metal under their arms,
under their toes, in their ears ."
fact, in every other conceivable place.
They are barefooted and barelegged
and in many cases work almost naked.
. i ial ..a than nrecUCIOtn.
In some of the old native mines they
carry the ore om upon -
many places they sort the ore .Before it
is crushed or treated wUh quicksilver.
Of the 3000 mines counted by Hum
boldt in 1800. not one, was worked sci
entifically, and a large part of the in
creased product of the country today
comes from the modern mining meth
ods introduced by the foreigners.
Mexican Mining Ias.
I have received many inquiries as to
..- ti ... n UatIiw Thiv are
simple and practical. Every camp has
its boara wmen toons miw ""-,
of the miners: and foreigners hae ths
same rights as natives In denouncing a
The ordinary mining claim Is "allj
a pertenencia. It contains about lto
square meters or about 2 1-8 acres; and
it can be held by taking out the proper
papers and paying at the rate of .
Mexican currency, for each SS claims
per year. The title of the claims are re
corded in the department of fomento.
and patents for them are issued by tne
general government. The mining laws
are more liberal than ours and claims
can be held whether worke dor not. so
long as the taxes are paid.
l'earls Knitted on Karma.
Mexico is now producing a goodly
amount of pearls and also of precious
stones used in the arts. The pearls
come from the Gulf of California, the
oysters being found on both sides or
the peninsula by native divers and also
being cultivated on farms.
The fishing is under concessions from
the Mexican government, and one com
pany, which has the largest pearl farm
in the world, is now employing In the
harvesting season more than 1009
hands. The oysters are planted, the
eggs being placed In artificial channels
where the young can be protected from
their natural enemies. As they grow
they are taken into deeper water and
kept in large boxes or cages and there
left to develop. "
The harvest Is ready at the end of
two vears, at which time It is said the
shells are at their best and contain the
best pearls. It is also said that the
pearls disappear after that age.
Th-ee kinds of pearls, yellow, white
and black, are now being found. The
yellcw ones are of the least value, the
white ones come next, being worth
about J20 a carat, and the most valua
ble are the black pearls, which are
worth $300 a carat and upward.
One of the biggest pearls evr fcucd
here was three-fourths of an inch in
diameter. It was taken to Paris and
sold to the emperor of Austria for ..10,
00. A black pearl from this 'egion.
valued at $25,000. went first to Madrid,
and was given by Spain to Napoleon
II L Another famous Mexican peari -n as
ot rose color. It was found about :00
years ago and was sold in Europe for
$50,000.
Mexican OnnI Mines.
Mexico has mines of fine stones. In
cluding emeralds, topases. garnets and
amethysts. The most profitable are
those which produce turquoises and
opals. The turquoises come mainly
from Zacatecas. and the opals are found
near yueretaro. where I once stopped on
my way to Mexico City. I saw there
hundreds of peasants at work in the
mines. The opal veins He in strata,
scattered through a matrix so hard that
dynamite is used to dislodge it. The
countrv. Is so rich that traces of the
minerals can be seen in the stones used
for public building purposes.
Some of the opals are stolen and sold
bv the workmen. Teddlers have them
for sale at the stations, and even on
the streets of Mexico City. The ped
dlers wrap the stones in black velvet or
black paper, and when they show them
It Is under the rays of the sun, which
bring out the full brilliancy of the gem
at first glance. One has to be very
careful In buying opals, for many of
the stones are cracked, and the cracks
concealed bv soak In sr them for a night
or so in olive oiL The finest stones
go to Mexico City, and some of the best
are sent to Europe and the United
States. They bring all kinds of prices,
from a few cents to hundreds of dollars,
according to their siie, color and the
brilliancy of their opalescence.
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