CENTRAL CHIHUAHUA. 133 
fifty miles southward, to the city of 
Chihuahua. 
This is a place of about thirty thousand 
people, and is the most important city 
in Northern Mexico. Like all towns in 
Mexico, but little of it can be seen from 
the railway, only the tall spires of its fa¬ 
mous cathedral being visible ; but the fine 
church alone well repays the tourist for 
stopping over on his southern flight. 
Beside the cathedral, there are many 
other features of interest to the tourist 
having sufficient leisure, and the town 
should not be so universally slighted as 
it now is. It is the outfitting point for 
all parties visiting the many large and fa¬ 
mous mines of the northern portion of the 
Sierra Madre range. The journey from 
the city to the mines is made by diligence 
for the first hundred miles, to the low- 
