. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . social entertain-ment and the greater glory of God. So we gringos have an un-sought holiday on our hands and tomorrow set out for a grandeight days hunting trip- We are going to one of the wildest andmost unfrequented sections of the Sierra, where bear, tigers, wildboars and deer abound, where wild turkeys are thicker than chip-pies in California, and a large and gamey trout haunts themountain streams. There will be four gringos in the party,Senores Don Tomas T
. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . social entertain-ment and the greater glory of God. So we gringos have an un-sought holiday on our hands and tomorrow set out for a grandeight days hunting trip- We are going to one of the wildest andmost unfrequented sections of the Sierra, where bear, tigers, wildboars and deer abound, where wild turkeys are thicker than chip-pies in California, and a large and gamey trout haunts themountain streams. There will be four gringos in the party,Senores Don Tomas Tompkins, Don Francisco Mosely, DonEnrique Wilkins and Don Santiago del mismo nombre, also John-ny-on-the-spot and several fellow Chileros. I give the names, as 70 A GLIMPSE OF OLD MEXICO this expedition is likely to prove famous, for if I fail to makeTeddy Roosevelt look like a ten-cent piece when I write up thestory of it then this pen will have lost its cunning. Wonder how much some of the San Francisco sports wouldgive to be with our crowd? California Mine, State of Durango, Mexico, April 2, 1901. E I Ct H T H T; E T T E R .. HAVE attempted to convey some ideaof mining in Alexico in a general put the situation more exactly, Iwill enumerate briefly the reasons whythis country ought to command theattention of mining men the worldover. First and foremost, because thereal thing is here. I have alreadygiven an idea of the enormous produc-tion of past ages and the great revivalof the industr}- within recent years. Yet I am not giving my ownvalueless opinion, but the mature judgment of every capable min-ing expert who has visited Mexico, when I say that the surfacehas barely been scratched, that there are still countless prizes toreward the prospectors enterprise, and that when capital finallydirects its magic influence this way in earnest, the land of theMontezumas will become, once more, by far the greatest contrib-utor to the ever increasing demand of civilization for the
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