46 CA VE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
It is a hacienda of about a million acres 
in extent, and one of the most beautiful in 
the whole State of Chihuahua, the Casas 
Grandes River running for some thirty 
miles through the estate. The true 
hacienda, of which we hear so much in 
Mexican narration, is really a definite area 
of twenty-two thousand acres, but the 
name is now used so as to mean almost 
any estate, whether large or small, under 
one management. With the advance of 
railways haciendas are slowly disappear¬ 
ing, and will soon exist only in poetry 
or fiction. 
The views from the hacienda are beau¬ 
tiful in the extreme. To the east lies 
a range of mountains filled with seams of 
silver, the Corralitos Company working 
some thirty to forty mines; while one 
hundred and fifty to two hundred “ pros- 
