. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . in shaft. This tunnel,which is cut entirely through the solid rock, hadalready pierced the mountain seven or eight hundredfeet, and will, when completed, be not much short ofone thousand feet. It is about eight feet high, andbetween eight and ten feet wide. This will prove avast saving in labor; for the ore up to the time of ourvisit was transported on the backs of men in leather
. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . in shaft. This tunnel,which is cut entirely through the solid rock, hadalready pierced the mountain seven or eight hundredfeet, and will, when completed, be not much short ofone thousand feet. It is about eight feet high, andbetween eight and ten feet wide. This will prove avast saving in labor; for the ore up to the time of ourvisit was transported on the backs of men in leathersacks from the bottom of the shafts to the entrance tothe mine, a distance of from two hundred and fifty tothree hundred feet. It is not the cinnabar alone thathas to be thus carried from the bottom of the mine,but the refuse rock, which forms a greater bulk thanthe ore itself. It cannot be separated in the mine,but has all to be brought to the surface. We waited for Mr. Bester, the engineer, to join usbefore entering the mine; and as he had not returnedfrom San Jose, where we left him, we determined toforego the examination of its interior to-day, and con-tent ourselves with what we could see on the OF NEW ALMADEN. 63 The mountain rises one hundred and sixty feetabove the entrance to the mine, terminating in a a level with the entrance, a quarter of a mile dis-tant, is the village, perched on the very summit of arock, in which the miners live with their mountain, as well as the others adjoining it, iscovered with grass, and dotted with small oaks to itssummit. There is nothing to distinguish the mountainin which the mine is worked from the others; henceit is reasonable to suppose that they may also containveins of cinnabar. The intervening valleys are wellwooded, and have a thick undergrowth. April 5th. Set out this morning for the mine, ac-companied by Mr. Bester, on mules, as the journey upwas fatiguing, and we wished to preserve our strength
Size: 1506px × 1659px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade185, booksubjectindiansofnorthamerica
