42 MEXICAN RESOURCES. 



Mexico : Chalchitepec, El Oro, Ixtlahuacan, Sultepec, Temascaltepec, Villa del 

 Valle, Zacoalpaii. 



Michoacan '. Agangueo, Tlalpujahua. 



Morelos: San Juan de Dios. 



Nueva-Leon; Mienas Viejas, in the district of Villaldama. 



Oaxaca: Ixtlan, Penoles, Talca, Totoloapan. 



Puebla: Tetela del Oro. 



Queretaro; El Doctor. 



San Luis Potosi : Bermalejo, Catorce, Charcas, Guadalcazar,Matehuale, San Pedro. 



Sinaloa ; Alisitos, Atotonilco, Bacubirito, Birimoa, Cajon, Calabazas, Cantar- 

 ranas, Capula, Cosala, Chichi, Fresnos, Fuerte, Joya, Limon, Panuco, San Ignacio, 

 San Javier, San Jose de Gracia, San Lorenzo, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Sarabia, Tigre, 

 Tule, Yedras, Zapote. 



Sonora ; Aduana, Ala-mos, Baucari, La Barranca, La Trinidad, Los Bronces, 

 Minas Nuevas, Soyopa, Tesopaco, Zuviate. 



Zacatecas ; Bolanos, Carcamo, Cedros, Chalchihuites, Fresnillo, Mazapil, Noria, 

 Nieves, Sombrerete, San Juan de Guadalupe, Sierra Hermosa, Pinos, Rio Grande, 

 Teul, Pico de Freire, Zacatecas. 



The mineral districts given above are those from which was obtained the silver 

 coined in the mints of the Republic during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1S79, ^ 

 total amount of $22,067,855 



SuLPHURET OF SILVER is found in Guanajuato, Pachuca, Zacatecas and in Zacu- 

 lapan. State of Mexico. Ruby silver in Morelos, State of Chihuahua. Black silver 

 in Chihuahua, Guanajuato and Zacatecas. Argentiferous galenite in the greater 

 part of the mines of the Republic, 



QUICKSILVER. 



Cinnabar is found in the State of Durango : Pregones and Chiltepi ; State of 

 Guerrero: El Puesto, Jalisco; Guadalcazar, San Luis Potosi; El Doctor, Quere- 

 taro, and la Trinidad ; in the cerro of Tippocanes, State of Zacatecas. Hepatic 

 cinnabar in Guadalupe Atargea, State of Guanajuato. Guadalcazarite in Guadal- 

 cazar, State of San Luis Potosi. Onofrita in mine of San Onofre, State of Quere- 

 taro. Livingstonite in Huitzuco, State of Guerrero. 



By referring to Humboldt, we find that New Spain in 1803 consumed an annual 

 amount of 2,100,212 Troy pounds of mercury. "The court of Madrid, having 

 reserved to itself the exclusive right of selling mercury, both Spanish and foreign, 

 entered in 1784 into a contract with the Emperor of Austria. When the price 

 of mercury has progressively lowered, the worldng of the mines has gone on 

 increasing. In 1590 a quintal of mercury was sold in Mexico for 187 piastres; 

 but in 1750 the court distributed it to the miners at 82 piastres: in 1777 a royal 

 decree fixed the price of the mercury of Almaden at 41 piastres, 2 reales, and that 

 of Germany at 63 piastres." From an argument by General Rosecrans, before 

 Congress, in December, 1882, it appears, that, during thirty-three years, the quick- 

 silver-mines of California have produced 1,310,095 flasks, or 100,222,267 pounds. 

 California produces half the quicksilver of the world ; that of the Old World, 

 from the mines of Austria and Spain, being controlled by the Rothschilds, who, 

 but for the mines of California and Mexico, would seriously retard all mining 

 operations, to which this valued product is essential in the reduction of ores. 



