CHAPTER VI. 
Visit to the Mining Town of tar rn 1 Roads— 
ing Specula ations—Mi ine - Santa Jul — a 
Operations—Different Modes of working ie Or re—The Crush- 
ing-mill, ete.—Barras de Plata—Value of Bullion Dee Silver 
de “Shewts _to Chihwabaa Resumption of the regular 
Narrative—Curious Wholesales—M ney Table—Redundancy 
i 
Se Architecture—Hidalgo and his Monument— 
and their present Declension—Félte in honor 
of arbide—Illiberality ee Americans—Shopping Mania 
Anti-Masonic Auto 
Berore resuming my regular narrative, I 
trust the reader will pardon me for introdue- 
ing here a brief account of an excursion which 
I made in the fall of the year 1835, to the 
mining town of Jesus-Maria, one of the most 
important mineral districts in the department 
of Chihuahua, situated about a hundred and 
fifty miles west of the city, in the very heart 
of the great Cordilleras. 
I had long been desirous of visiting some 
of the mining establishments of Mexico, and 
seeing a favorable opportunity of embarking 
in a profitable enterprise, I set out from Chi- 
huahua on the 15th of October. My party 
consisted of but one American comrade with 
