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masters, the enforcement of the Mexican laws against pag would 
be sufficient to continue their servitude mi generation to generation. 
This actual slavery exists throughout Mexico, in spite of . liberal con- 
stittition; and as long as this ¢ yin: ame is not abolished, the declama- 
tions of the Mexican press against the slavery in the United States must 
appear as hypocritical cant. 
esides agriculture, the inhabitants of New Mexico pay a great deal of 
attention to the raising of stock, as horses, mules, cattle, sheep, and goats. 
Their stock is all rather of a small size, because they’care very little for the 
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are large tracts of land in New Mexico too distant from water to be culfiva- 
ted, or in too mountainous parts, which afford, nevertheless, excellent pas- 
turage for millions of stock during the whole year; but unfortunately here, 
as well as in the State of Chihuah hua, the raising of stock has been crippled 
by the invasions of the hostile Indians, who cons reviign themselves secret 
partners in the business, and annually take their share y- 
third, much neglected branch of industry in i ile Mexico are the 
mines. Great many now ferret: mining places in New Mexico prove 
at present, which may be secunateh for in various ways, as the prese 
want of capital, want of knowledge in mining, but esmlncte the soa 
tled state of the country and the avarice of its arbitrary rulers. ‘The 
mountainous parts of New Mexico are very tich in gold, eh iron, and 
some silver. Gold seems to be found to a large extent in all the moun- 
tains near Santa Fe, south of it in a distance of abo ut 100 miles, as far 
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fou und by the rie classes of sa who aaa themselves with the 
wauhing of this metal out of the mountain streams. At present the old and 
e new Placer, near Santa Fe, have attracted most attention, and not only 
gold washes, but some gold mines too, are worked there. They are, so far 
as my knowledge extends , the only gold mines worked now in New Mex- 
ico. But as I have made from Santa Fe an excursion there for the special 
Lapa of e examining those mines, I must refer the rea menace! in relation to 
overlooked. Coal has been discovered in different Abcalitien, as in the 
Raton mountains, near the village of Jemez, southwest of Santa Fe, in 
a place south of. the Placers, etc. Gy ; saaiaeu a selenite, are 
found in tities in Mexico; most extensive layers of it, I under- 
stood , exist in the mountains n ear Algodones nes, on the Rio del Norte, and in 
the n neighborhood, of the celebrated ‘«Salinas.”? It is used as common 
