TO THE COPPER MINES. 
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ting up frequently at night to turn me in my bed, 
which for the first week I was unable to accomplish 
without assistance. This he preferred doing to my 
having a servant in the room with us. 
May bth. General Conde, with the Mexican Commis- 
sion, arrived to-day. After remaining three days, he 
removed his camp to the banks of the Mimbres, where 
he believed he would find sufficient grass for his animals. 
Santa Rita del Cobre, as this place is called by the 
Mexicans, was for about forty years an active mining 
town. The workings were commenced in the year 
1804, and proving very profitable, a population of 
about 600 souls gathered around them in the small 
Valley of the Copper Mines from the South. 
open space which here exists encircled by lofty 
mountains. The vMley is so narrow here, as to afford 
