. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . j fa 1 - V *• ? ^^^ ^k.^ .* ? ?? Constructing a Pipe Line for Power. Mouth of Tunnel and Settling Tank. time. It is owned by a French company, and during the year 1900is said to have paid dividends amounting to forty million francs(about $7,200,000). Large plants are being installed at manyother localities and Mexico will soon take a foremost place in thecopper industry. Some of the most remarkable iron deposits of the earth arefound in Mexico and remain as
. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . j fa 1 - V *• ? ^^^ ^k.^ .* ? ?? Constructing a Pipe Line for Power. Mouth of Tunnel and Settling Tank. time. It is owned by a French company, and during the year 1900is said to have paid dividends amounting to forty million francs(about $7,200,000). Large plants are being installed at manyother localities and Mexico will soon take a foremost place in thecopper industry. Some of the most remarkable iron deposits of the earth arefound in Mexico and remain as a rule to this day untouched byman, and in most cases, not even under private owaiership. The A GLIMPSE OF OLD MEXICO 73 Iron Mountain, a mile or so from the City of Durango, is a largehill, one solid mass of nearly eighty per cent, iron ore. Asidefrom the enormous amount of metal visible, it has also been as-certained that it extends to a great depth beneath the surface, thewhole constituting what is, humanely speaking, an inexhaustible. Constructing a Power Line. A Mexican Trestle. deposit. The story goes that when the late ]\Ir. C. P. Huntingtonextended his railroad system to Durango, it was largely becauseof the traffic possibilities presented by this marvelous property,and it is said that he was negotiating for its purchase when the 74 A GLIMFSE OF OLD MEXICO hand of death checked his busy brain forever. I have been reli-ably informed that there is a still larger iron mountain in South-ern Mexico, and countless others of minor importance which, inthe fullness of time, will be developed profitably. It is known that extensive coal fields exist in many parts ofMexico, but scarcely an efl^ort has been made to uncover them. Anoted mining expert informed me that probably the largest an-thracite bed in the world was in a remote, and at present inaccess-ible, section of the State of Sonora. It is likewise known thatthere are coal veins in the country drained by the Yaqui andFuer
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