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worked for only five months. In it are employed 
eighty-five men, who receive from six to twelve dollars 
a month and their subsistence. The last monthly pay- 
ment for wages and rations amounted to thirteen hun- 
dred and fifty-nine dollars. ($1,359.) The produce 
of this mine the first five months after it was opened, 
amounted to fifteen thousand nine hundred and fifty- 
six dollars. ($15,946.) 
The comforts and conveniences about the house, I 
cannot say were in keeping with the magnificent scale 
of the establishment. But this is excusable in a place 
situated so far in the interior, when even on the coast 
at the port of Guay mas, the luxuries which wealth 
usually commands are not to be obtained. The enjoy- 
ment of these must be left for the next generation. 
December 30;^^. Left Tapahui after breakfast. The 
natural road continued down the valley, hard and 
smooth, and was quite equal to a well made turnpike. 
Passed several haciendas and ranchos, with extensive 
and highly . cultivated grounds. , The chief products 
seemed to be wheat, with a limited proportion of corn 
(maize) and beans. Little attention seemed to be paid 
to the cultivation of other cereals, fruit, or vegetables. 
The heat was very oppressive, there being no top to 
the chaise ; but as the road continued good, I hurried 
on, and at 4 o’clock reached Herniosillo, distant twen- 
ty-seven miles. I drove at once to Senor Majocci’s, an 
Italian, to whom I had a note from Mr. Thurber. Mr. 
M. gave me an excellent room in his house, to which 
I had my baggage transferred and my cot set up, and 
furnished me with other conveniences to render me as 
comfortable as possible. 
