328 DEPARTMENTS, AGRICULTURE, GRAZING, ETC., MONTEREY. 



New Leon is divided into five Partidos or Departments, with 25 

 districts. 



1st. Department of Monterey, with seven districts: Monterey, 

 Salinas Victorias, Absalo, San Nicolas Hidalgo, Pesqueria Grande, 

 Santa Catarina, and Guajuco. 



2d. Department of Cadereyta Ximenes, with five districts : Ca- 

 dereyta, Santa Maria, Cerralvo, Agualequas, and Santa Maria de las 

 Aldamas. 



3d. Department of Monte Morelos, with three districts : Monte 

 Morelos, Mota and China. 



4th. Department of Linares, with five districts : Linares, Galeana, 

 Hualahuises, Rio Blanco and Concepcion. 



5th. Department of Aldama, with five districts : Villa Aldama, 

 Vallecillo, Sabinas, Lampazos and Tlascala. 



The agriculture of New Leon has not been as carefully and suc- 

 cessfully pursued as it might have been, in the hands of a different 

 population. The annual product of the soil has been stated by the 

 Mexican authorities, to average 120,600 fanegas of corn ; 5,700 

 fanegas of frijoles or beans, and 46,500 hundred-weight of sugar ; — 

 the home market affording one dollar per fanega for corn, three dol- 

 lars per fanega for frijoles, and three dollars per hundredweight for 

 raw sugar. 



The chief occupation of the landholders is the grazing of cattle, 

 and the yearly return of animals, shows that the State is quite pro- 

 ductive in this branch of rural labor. It is calculated by official 

 reporters that New Leon annually feeds and sends to market: — 

 50,000 horses, 12,000 mules, 75,000 large horned cattle, and 850,- 

 000 sheep, goats, and hogs. The local value of which is six dollars 

 a head for horses, twelve for a mule, four for neat cattle, and from 

 fifty cents to a dollar, a piece, for sheep, goats, and swine. The 

 State is regarded as rich in minerals of silver and lead, but the 

 mining operations are almost abandoned, except at Cerralvo and 

 Vallecillo. Salt is made at the salt mines on the banks of the Rio 

 Tigre. The domestic trade is carried on in State productions with 

 Mexico and Queretaro, and North American or European fabrics 

 are imported through the port of Tampico de Tamaulipas. 



The capital of the State is Monterey, in 25° 59' north latitude 

 and 102° 33'' west longitude from Paris, about 220 leagues north of 

 the city of Mexico, situated on the plain at the foot of the Sierra 

 Madre on the margin of one of the affluents of the Rio Tigre. Its 

 population is estimated at about 13,000, and its climate is consid- 

 ered agreeable and healthy. Monterey is connected with the his- 



