The New Era. (Marfa, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 1, 1911 Page: 3 of 4
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MEXICO'S 1ME3AL WEALTH
MY F. J. HASKIN.
Few nations are so favored in
t tie matter of mineral wealth as
Mexico. Humboldt onee called
? as country the treasure house
f the world. When one oonsid-
. 8 that untold millions have been
one-sixth o' the world's total j ican frontier to the city of Oxaca,
pro luetion of silver. Tiie cost j along the line of the Mexico ex-
of minim; aal treatment is «to' tentension of the Rooky Moun-
nmall and the assay in many of j lions, while the oil fields cover
the viiH so great, in !*omi cases i the oostal plains around the Gulf
averaging more than 3)00 ounces'of Mexico, thus making the en-
per ton, that the effeot of this dis- j tire country a mineral region.
Direct from the sun-kissed cotton fields
covery lias been to drive the price
of silver down and almost swamp
the world’s markets. Mexico
suffers most severely by this.
aken out of its gold and silver: to the fact that many of
lines, and tha* three-fou ths of
nil Mexican mining territory is as
jet unexploited, Humboldt’s pic-
t ire does not seem to bo over-
drawn. Certainly thore are but
; w of the metal* used by modern
civilization that are not found
! ere in abundant quantity. He-
irs mines produce nothing but
silver.
But what Mexico is losing in
silver is more than made up in
| the production of gold. Last
j year the output of the Mexican
1 gold mines amounted to SI >.000.
000, an increase of $9,0)0,000
ides its metals Mexico has rich j ov®1’.t*,e )’carj 1306 and 1907.
leposits of precious stones, its Fhia increase is partly due t» the _____
P«l mines being famed through- di"?0Iver-v of n«w mines, but ore a" year
at the world for the abundance main|y to llie ‘urtliur application
mid beauty of their product. | t*10 cyanide process to the
Mexico today occupies first
nk among the nations of the
orld in the production of silver
.3 mines have been worked from
me8 so remote that even tradi-
:on does not record them. Long
efore the Aztec Indians swarm-
i ] down from north and took pos-
-ession of the land of theToltecs,
s Iver mines of seemingly inox-
) austible richness had been
worked for uncounted years,
/hen Cortez invaded the land of
le Montezumas he took from it
more than seven million dollars
• orth of gold and silver. Silver
* sometimes found in nuggets of
ast proportions. Oue of these,
discovered in the State of Sonora
;;ear the American frontier,
weighed 2750 pounds. Tiie pro-
action of silver has ceased to be
s profitable as it once was, owing
to the decline in market value of
he refined metal.
The annual output of silver
mounts to approxim itely 77.000,
*00 pesos. It was hoped by the
4exican9 that the impr ivements
n trade conditions in foreign
Markets would result in an in-
creasing demand for silver i i
treat.neat of gold-silver ore.
The Real Del Oro mine in Mexico
is one of the largest gold mines
in the world. It has been worked
from a period far antedating the
Spanish occupation, and is still
producing large quantities of the
precious metal.
There arc upward of 1000 cop-
per mines in the Republic, some
of them posessing deposits of
remarkable richness. Those at
Cananea are said to be the third
largest in the world. I'he annu-
al output of copper approximates
§20,000,000.. The territory of
Lower California boasted of the
largest output from a single mine
last year, even surpassing the
record of the Canenea mine.This
was the Bolleo mine, with a pro-
duction of 12,000 metric tons of
copper. The United States is the
principal consumer of Mexican
copper,using nearly one-half the
output.
The oil busiuess in Mexico lias
developed at a very opportune
time. The railroads of the coun-
try, owing to the scarcity of coal,
have been predisposed to use oil
as fuel for their engines. The
There are a great many mining
companies operating in Mexico.
The American Smelting and lte-
fiuing Co., incorporated under
the laws of New Jersey, is the
Guggenheim property. It lias a
capital stock of §100,000,000 and
was the pioneer mine in the in-
trodujtion of the modern smelt-
ing process. It is now at the
head of the industry in the Re-
public. Its smelters, located at
Alonterey, Aguasoalieotes ; n 1
Chihuahua have a combined ca-
pacity of more than 1,300,000
The Boleo
mine, operated under a French
charter, is supposed to be con-
trolled by the French house of
Rothchild. It is exempt from all
Federal and local taxis except
stamp tuxes, until December of
next year, and from all customs
and local dues until 1942 The FI
Ora Mining and Railway Co.,lim-
ited, occupies rather a peculiar
position. It is an English com-
pany which was organized to
take over tlio capital stock of the
American Mining Company, in-
corporated under the laws of the
State of West Virginia, and the
American Railway and Lumber
Company, incorporated nndor
the laws of the State of New
Jersey. Its profits amount to
approximately a million dollars a
year.
The opal mines of Mexico .are
the richest in the world.In work-
ing them the opal bearing stone
Cottolcne is pure in its source; it comes from the cotton
fields of the Sunny South, and is made from pure, refined
cotton oil.
Cottolcne is manufactured in a cleanly manner, amid the
most favorable sanitary surroundings.
Cottolcne is packed in a manner that absolutely insures its
freshness and prevents it from absorbing dust and odors of the
grocery. We have such faith in our patent air-tight, friction-
top pail that we guarantee Cottolcne to he fresh and satisfac-
tory, and your grocer will refund your money if you
find it otherwise.
Cottolcne is worth more per pail than any imita-
tion, because it is richer, will go one-third farther,
and is most economical. Why take chances with
inferior imitations?
I*tom Cottonfield to Kitchen — Human Hands Never
Touch the Oil From Which Cottolcne is Made
Made only by THE N K. FAIRBANK COMPANY
and extracting the metal is used,
while at other mines the same olo
processes that were used contu
ries ago are still in use. Peons
still carry the pay dirt out of the
is drilled with steel drills, brought mjnea chicken ladders as they
to the surface on the backs o. | <di<j in the days of tiie Spanish
peon laborers, broken into small rule lt is then 9prea<| out and
pieces with hammers and then .ground to powder with huge stone
sent to the lapidaries, who polish ro|lcrs, drawn by mules. After
the stone. I he richest opal being powdered, the dirt is car-
region in Mexico is to be found ' rie(j to a j)!lVoj COurt. When it
around Querataro, in Cential ;9 abc>ut two foot deep handfuls
Mexico, where the rock f°iri,1,a~ |of salt, blue vitriol and quicksil-
ties sufficient to produce proper ! of pure metal and the quicksilver
amalgamation. Then a herd of j become the a Hi n it y which
tions are si full of opal that
traces of the mineral may be seen
in the stones used for building
uch countries as India a id Chi-1 Tehauiitapec route was the first
:ia, the principle users of the j railroad in Mexico to make the
vhite metal. It was thought that! experiment, and it proved so sue-
n connection with the gradually I cessful that the Mexican govern- , purposes. There are many van-
liininishing supply of bar silver I me'*t hopes to equip ail of its eties of opals and tliep sell at fi r-
*■ -----*--•-----*—* -- •--------- j 80)0 miles of railroads with oil j urea varying from a few cents to
pesos apiece. The
Mexican peon has found that he
can cover up the defects of im-
perfect stoues by giving them a
bath of oil, and the the traveler
who buys his supply of opals from
an irresponsible vender is almost
certain to be cheated
In some mines every modern
process of handling the material
nules is driven over it until the
whole becomes a mass of thor-
uighly mixed mud—a process of-
ten requiring as much us four
weeks. Then it is carried to the
washers. The silver-mercury
amalgum, being heavy, remains
behind, while the mud is washed
out. Then the amalgum is car-
ried to a distillery where the sil-
ver and mercury are divorced,
steals anot her lot of silver from
companion—dirt.
ver are strewn over it in quanti-1 ^ho silver to bo made into ingots
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t would bring about an improve- | 80)0 miles of railroads with oil ( ures varying from a few cents to!
uent of prices. But just at the burning locomotives. All of t lie I a thousand
time that it seemed that this hope nevv engines ordered are oil
was to be realized a new eompsti burners. Surveys made around
’or appeared on the scene, and j the Gulf coast indicate that the
silver went still lower. Tiie ex- j supply of oil greater than was es-
ension of a railroad in Canada j timated, and its abundance will
was the means of discovering rich | do ditless prove a great stimulant
deposits of silver mixed with co- j ^ ’ every kind of i dustry. It so
bait and nickel. In 1910 the out- happens that the mineral lands
put of these mines amounted to I of Mexico extan 1 from ttie A ner-
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Kilpatrick, H. H. The New Era. (Marfa, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 1, 1911, newspaper, April 1, 1911; Marfa, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth994267/m1/3/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .