Railways in Mexico Continued. 



Me'rida and Peto Railway, 203 ; Sinaloa 



. and Durango Railway, Merida and 

 Campeche Railway, Merida and Valla- 

 dolid Railway, 204 ; Tlalmanalco Rail- 

 way, San Juan Bautista and Carrizal 

 Passenger Railway, San Andres and 

 Chalchicomula Railway, 205 ; Orizaba 

 and Ingenio Railway, Santa Ana and 

 Tlaxcala Railway, Cardenas and Rio 

 Grijalva Railway, 206 ; Toluca and 

 San Juan de las Huertas Railway, Vane- 

 gas, Cedral, Matehuala, and Rio Verde 

 Railway, Merida and Izamal Railway, 

 San Marcos and Nautla Railway, 207 ; 

 Monterey and Gulf Railway, Cordova 

 and Tuxtepec Railway, Maravatio and 

 Cuernavaca Railway, Salamanca and 

 Santiago Valley Railway, 208 ; Monte 

 Alto Railway, Valley of Mexico 

 Railway, Puebla Industrial Railway, 

 Mexican Northern Railway, Mexico, 

 Cuernavaca, and Pacific Railway, 209 ; 

 Federal District Tramways, Veracruz 

 and Alvarado Railway, 210 ; traffic and 

 receipts of Mexican railroads, 211; 

 subsidies paid by Mexican Government 

 to June 30, 1896, 212-20 



Read & Campbell, Messrs., contractors 

 of tunnel, 276, 277 



Real del Monte, 15-17 



Religion in Mexico, Catholic clergy and 

 convents, 92, 93 ; in politics, 94 ; 

 Catholics of to-day, 94, 95 ; Protestant 

 missionaries, 95-7; Protestant churches 

 established by Mr. Henry C. Riley, 

 96 ; statistics on Protestants, 97, 98 



Revenue, increase, 137 ; difficult to get 

 data, 138 ; statistics of, from 1808-67, 

 139 ; statistics on, from 1867-88, 140 ; 

 statistics on, from 1888-96, 141 ; Fed- 

 eral appropriations from 1868-95, 142 ; 

 sources of, import duties, 143 ; addi- 

 tional import duties, export duties, 144 ; 

 custom receipts, 145, 146 ; internal 

 revenue, 146, 147 ; direct taxes, 148, 

 149 ; of Mexican States, 150 ; of mu- 

 nicipalities, 152 ; of Mexico in the year 

 1896-97, 245 



Rice, how cultivated, 53 



Ruins in Mexico, Uxmal, 80, 81 ; Pa- 

 lenque, Cholula, 81 ; Teotihuacan, 81- 

 83 ; Mitla, 83 ; extract from Sir Vivien 

 Cory on, 83-5 



Sanchez, Father, plan for tunnel, 270; 



plan condemned. 271 

 Sandy Plains of Mexico, 12 

 Sanitarium, Mexico as a, 41, 42 

 School of Engineering, 103 

 School of Medicine, 102, 103 

 Schools, statistics of, 105, 106 ; public, 



229, 230 ; private, 231, 232 



Sewage of the City of Mexico, danger of, 

 274 ; description of, and how to be 

 effected, 279 



Sheep, mistakes made in raising, 58 



Shipping, mercantile marine, vessels in 

 foreign and coasting trade, tons car- 

 ried, 133 



Silk culture, where grown, varieties, 52 ; 

 how sold, 53 



Silver, yield, and where found, 13, 14 ; 

 system of reduction, 14 ; history of 

 some mines, 15, 16 ; duties on, 28 ; 

 weight and standard value, 133 ; total 

 coinage of, 186 ; total production of, 

 coined by Mexican mints from 1535 

 to 1895, 187 ; production of in the 

 years 1879-80, 1889-90, and 1894-95, 

 188 ; coined and exported from 1874- 

 96, 189 



Smelting plants, Mexican Metallurgical 

 Co., 28 ; National Mexican Smelter at 

 Monterey, 28, 29 ; Central Mexican 

 Smelter, Velardena Mining Co., The 

 Chihuahua Mining Co., The Mazapil 

 Copper Co., Limited, Sabinal Mining 

 and Smelting Co., Chihuahua, La 

 Preciosa, The Boleo Smelter, 29 



Smith, Captain, referred to, 275 



Spaniards in Mexico, characteristics, 78, 

 79 ; climate check on growth, little 

 education, 79 ; built dike for canal, 269 



Starr, Professor, his theory, 76 



States of Mexico, classification and divi- 

 sion, etc., 90, 91 



Sugar-cane, size, places best adapted for 

 raising, cost of raising, 45 



Switzerland, compared with Mexico, 10 



Technical schools, at the present time, 

 103, 104 ; reorganization of, 104, 105 



Tejada, Senor Lerdo de, 115 



Telegraphs, number of different com- 

 panies, 121-3 ; length of, 133 ; earn- 

 ings and expenditures from 1869-96, 

 224 



Telephones, length of, 133 



Terreros, Don Pedro Jose Romero de, 15, 

 109 



Texas, annexation of, 7 



Tobacco, quality of, 45, 46 



Topia, new mines, 17 



Trade-marks, number of, 132, 133 



Transportation, of money, 131 ; cost of, 

 railroads have revolutionized, 154, 155 ; 

 of mangoes, 63 ; of postal pieces, 225 



Treaties, Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Gadsden, 

 one signed at Washington between 

 the United States and Texas, 7, 8 



Tunnel, originated, 270, 271 ; blocked 

 up, 272 ; work carried on in 1614, 

 closed, 271 ; opened out, 272 ; earth- 

 quake destroyed it in 1637 ; condi- 

 tion of old tunnel now, 273 ; dangers 



