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The grand Canal of Huehuetoca. The Silver Mines of Pachuca. Hakal Silver Mines. Real del Monte Mines. The Anglo-Mexican Mining Fever. My Equipment to descend a Mine. The great Steam-pump. Descending the great Shaft. Galleries and Veins of Ore. Among the Miners one thousand Feet under Ground. The Barrel Process of refining Silver. Another refining Establishment.
She rose and held out her hand. "That was awfully thoughtful of you, Mr. Scott," she said. "I'm ever and ever so much obliged to you, both for that and for last night. I suppose if it hadn't been for you Señor Pachuca might have been sending pieces of my fingers to Bob for a ransom." Scott laughed but he took the hand awkwardly.
By this time, Pachuca had defeated the evident intentions of the sorrel to buck himself through the store window, and uttering a cry dashed off in the direction of the automobile. "Adios, Señor Scott!" he cried, as he went. "Next time you will take a neighbor's good word, eh?"
Carranza, governor of the state of Chihuahua. This revolution had been in progress more than a year when this story opens. Pedro's father, Gen. Sanchez, had been a friend of President Madero. When Madero was shot, Gen. Sanchez fled to Pachuca where he had a large hacienda and also owned vast interests in the silver mines at Real del Monte, some six miles up the mountains.
"I think so," replied Pachuca, a little stiffly. "But, please, dear lady, do not get down in the dirt! I beg of you!" "I don't mind. I know every little pain an engine can have. I drove an emergency car at home during the war," said Polly, curtly. "Indeed?" Juan Pachuca's voice was cool. The young lady was business-like too business-like to flirt with and yet "No, it's not that."
"I like Juan Pachuca and I believe he's been led away by bad company. I believe what he told me about that treasure, too. I only wish I'd made him tell me the name of the border town where it was." "Women are queer," remarked Scott, with more truth than originality. "Well, Polly Street, I think I'll gather the wood for your fire."
I might speak of many other landed proprietors whose estates are princely, but none are equal to Jaral. Indeed, all men of wealth possess landed estates. It is the favorite investment for successful miners to purchase a few plantations, each of a dozen leagues or so, under cultivation. WARD'S Mexico, vol. ii. p. 470. Visit to Pachuca and Real del Monte. Otumba and Tulanzingo.
Pachuca is the capital of the State of Hidalgo, lying on a plain at an altitude of eight thousand feet and more, environed by purple hills, and is one of the oldest mining districts in the republic, having been worked long before the Spanish conquest. It has a population of about twenty thousand, nearly half of whom are Indian miners.
The evidence against Angel was cumulative, the episode of the Yaqui village being only one of many interesting exploits in which he had figured. Just how much the escape of Juan Pachuca was due to the connivance of his captors will probably never be known.
It sounded like a Spanish love song and his voice was a lyric tenor and very musical. It was Pachuca! She determined to know what was going on. Pushing aside a corner of the blanket she saw that it was beginning to grow dusky. Cautiously she raised herself until she could see. Pachuca was bent over the wheel. Looking back she saw the road empty of riders. She looked ahead again.
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