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and: Jaumave are about this distance from Tampico, San Luis Potosi, or 
Vanegas.: The roads are rough tracks along the bottoms of valleys and 
over mountain:passes. In the valleys a team can be seen at a great 
distance by the cloud of white dust rising lazily around it. This dust 
is so fine and light that it hides the mules from the occupants of a 
running before the wind. he mountain tracks are of the 
roughest deseription. They are full of boulders and deep hollows torn 
out by the mountain torrents, and broken waggons are as common a 
sight as vultures whirling over a dead mule. 
he fibre from plants gathered in the mountains is, as a rule, coarser 
and shorter than that of those gathered in the valleys. ‘The greater 
average length of the Jaumave istle is possibly accounted -for by the 
lower altitude and greater fertility of the district. The quantity of fibre 
obtained from the Lechuguillas and Palmas is about 5 per cent. of the 
green leaves handled. Little, if any, fibre is lost in the manual process. 
from Mexico now goes to the United 
-making and for twine for reapers and 
es 
ere only e s I have are unreliable. Th ies. 
at as a rule it costs about $20 (Mexican) for every shipment crossin 
dee ers Thiele mado up. of fees to orita 7e on Mon 
and commission to a ing ee i 
"here ia fene erar n ses undertaking to see it 
MER Ren Tnterior, and is. lé b . 
tin het finest Lechuguilla fibre (Jaumave) is. from 
and of inferi mnes dggzi i 
DIT amor. Lechuguillas and Palma Matümoras), about 227; per ton. 
