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The National Palace. The Cathedral. A whole Museum turned Saints. All kneel together. The San Carlos Academy of Arts. Reign of Carlos III The Mineria. The city of Mexico, as rebuilt by Cortéz, was but an humble affair.
If its first necessity is attended to, with the augmentation of population commerce will come to give it the consequent movement and animation, and the Mineria will come to complete the circle of its prosperity; so that it is now difficult to perceive the grand importance, commercial and political, which this despised peninsula, which is called Lower California, will yet attain when the transition of time and the sequel of events come to realize these Utopian offspring of a patriotic sentiment; but we will occupy ourselves with the statistical mineral notices of that territory.
If the few articles in it that are valuable were divided between the Mineria and the San Carlos, and the rest thrown away, it would be an advantage to all concerned.
The reports mention nothing in respect to the authorities that take cognizance of the affairs of the Mineria; but it is presumed that, as in the rest of the nation, the judges of first instance take knowledge of controversies, and the courts of mines, if by chance they are established, take cognizance of the economy and government of the mines.
The Cathedral, for instance, is really a very grand building when seen from a little distance, with its two high towers and its cupola behind. I was greatly edified by finding it described in the last book of Mexican travels I have read, as built in the purest Doric style. The Minería, or School of Mines, is a fine building, something after the manner of Somerset House on a small scale.
For in this state there are no mining courts, but the ordinary judges of first instance are the authorities which take cognizance of matters which occur in the department of the Mineria.
It is to be presumed that when the quicksilver of Northern California comes to compete with the quicksilver of Spain in the mineral districts of the interior of the republic, the price of this principal element for conducting the working of mines will fall greatly in all the nation, and that the Mineria will assume a grade of prosperity never yet seen in our country; and Lower California, by its proximity to the places of the production of mercury, will obtain it, without doubt, at a still lower price.
The Jesus Maria, Refugio, and Eulalia Mines. A Creation of Silver at Arizpa. The Pacific Railroad. Sonora now valueless for want of personal Security. The Hopes of replenishing the Spanish Finances from Sonora blasted by War. Report of the Mineria. Sonora. Chihuahua.
Under this prince a new code of mining laws had been digested, strikingly resembling the present miner's rules in California. Their immediate effect was almost to double the production of silver, while the Mineria was both a school to impart scientific knowledge in relation to mining, and a bank to advance money to develop new mineral enterprises. The National Museum. Marianna and Cortéz.
While the publication of the mineral statistics of the nation not only brings the idea of manifesting the present condition of this branch of industry among us, but also that of propagating its exercise as one of the principal elements of riches among the Mexicans, it is necessary to speak of the state in which the Mineria is in Coahuila, and of hopes which it makes to spring up for the future.
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