I40 Reminiscences of 



Biscaina vein $ 16,341,600 



Santa Anita vein 21,347,210 



Valencia vein 31,813,486 



Rayas vein 85,421,014 



Veta Madre vein 225,935,736 



"The Pavellon vein when first opened was said to 

 have produced $20,000 per day for five years, when a 

 torrent of water from the mountains filled its shafts 

 and swept away the improvements. It was opened 

 again, and for the succeeding ten years yielded S6o,ooo,- 

 000. In 1696 it was once more abandoned and not 

 opened again until 1787, when it was vigorously 

 worked for eight months. The ore taken from it in 

 that period yielded $11,500,000. The different mem- 

 bers of the noted Fagoaga family are estimated to have 

 received during fifty years' working of two veins over 

 $16,000,000 in profits. 



"That the great mineral treasures of Mexico com- 

 mence at the point where Humboldt rightly states the 

 labors of the miners to have temiinated, is conceded 

 by those familiar with the country north and south 

 and the natives themselves. We may be surprised 

 when considering this fact, that such localities, known 

 to be so much richer than the interior sections, should 

 have been so long neglected. 



"The extreme northern mines of Durango and Chi- 

 huahua have been proven as vastly richer than those 

 of the interior. It is upon the records of Mexico that 

 one Sefior Zambrano, proprietor of two mines at San 

 Dimas, Durango, paid as the king's fifth upon the 

 silver raised from the two mines, from 1783 to 1807, 

 the simi of $11,000,000. Nothing but the extreme 

 richness of the ore could have paid the royalty of the 



