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and buried treasure--Prehistoric Mexican religion--The Teocallis--Comparison with modern religious systems-- Philosophical considerations.
CHAPTER XII
MEXICAN LIFE AND TRAVEL (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Anthropogeographical conditions--The Great Plateau--The tropical belt-- Primitive villages--Incidents of travel on the plateau--Lack of water-- Hydrographic conditions--Venomous vermin--Travel by roads and diligencias--A journey with a priest--Courtesy of the peon class-- The curse of alcohol--The dress of the working classes--The women of the peon class--Dexterity of the natives--The bull-fights--A narrow escape--Mexican horse equipment--The vaquero and the lasso--Native sports--A challenge to a duel--Foreigners in Mexico--Unexplored Guerrero--Sporting conditions--Camp life--A day's hunting.
CHAPTER XIII
MINERAL WEALTH. ROMANCE AND ACTUALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Forced labour in the mines--Silver and bloodshed--History of discovery--Guanajuato--the veta Madre--Spanish methods--Durango-- Zacatecas--Pachuca--The patio process--Quicksilver from Peru--Cornish miners' graves--Aztec mining--Spanish advent--Old mining methods-- Romance of mining--The Cerro de Mercado--Guanajuato and Hidalgo--Real del Monte--Religion and mining--Silver and churches--Subterranean altars--Mining and the nobility--Spanish mining school--Modern conditions--The mineral-bearing zone--Distribution of minerals geographically--Silver--The patio process--Gold-mining and production--El Oro and other districts--Copper--Other minerals--General mineral production--Mining claims and laws.
CHAPTER XIV
NATURAL RESOURCES, AGRICULTURE, GENERAL CONDITIONS . . . . . . . . 282
Principal cultivated products--Timber--The three climatic zones-- General agricultural conditions--Waste of forests--Irrigation--Region of the river Nazas--Canal-making--Cotton and sugar-cane--Profitable agriculture--Mexican country-houses--Fruit gardens--Food products, cereals, and fibrous plants--Pulque production--India-rubber and guayule--List of agricultural products and values--Fruit culture and values--Forestry and land--Colonisation--American land-sharks-- Conditions of labour--Asiatics--Geographical distribution of products-- The States of the Pacific slope--Sonora--Lower California--Sinaloa-- Tepic--Jalisco--Colima--Michoacan--Guerrero--Oaxaca--Chiapas.
CHAPTER XV
NATURAL RESOURCES, AGRICULTURE, GENERAL CONDITIONS (continued) . 308
Central and Atlantic States--Chihuahua and the Rio Grande--Mining, forests, railways--Coahuila and its resources--Nuevo Leon and its conditions--Iron, coal, railways, textile industries--Durango and its great plains and mountain peaks--Aguascalientes--Zacatecas and its mineral wealth--San Luis Potosi and its industries--Guanajuato, Queretaro and Hidalgo, and their diversified resources--Mexico and its mountains and plains--Tlaxcala--Morelos and its sugar-cane industry-- The rich State of Puebla--Tamaulipas, a littoral state--The historic State of Vera Cruz, its resources, towns, and harbour--Campeche and the peninsula of Yucatan.
CHAPTER XVI
MEXICAN FINANCE, INDUSTRIES, AND RAILWAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Financial rise of Mexico--Tendencies toward restriction against foreigners--National control of railways--Successful financial administration--Favourable budgets--Good trade conditions--Foreign liabilities--Character of exports and imports--Commerce with foreign nations--Banks and currency--Principal industries--Manufacturing conditions--Labour, water-power, and electric installations--Textile industry, tobacco, iron and steel, paper, breweries, etc.--Railways-- The Mexican Railway--The Mexican Central Railway--The National Railroad--The Interoceanic--Governmental consolidation--The Tehuantepec Railway--Port of Salina Cruz--Other railway systems.
CHAPTER XVII
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Mexico's unique conditions--Her future--Asiatic immigrants--Fostering of the native race--Encouraging of immigration--The white man in the American tropics--Future of Mexican manufactures--The Pan-American Congress--Pan-American railway--Mexico and Spain--The Monroe Doctrine-- Mexico, Europe, and the United States--Promising future of Mexico.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
AN IDYLL OF MEXICO: INDIAN CARRIERS, RUINED CHURCH, AND SNOW-CLAD PEAK OF ORIZABA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
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THE ATLANTIC SLOPE: TUNNEL AND BRIDGE OF THE INFIERNILLO CANYON ON THE MEXICAN RAILWAY, IN THE STATE OF VERA CRUZ . . . . . . . . . . 4
THE GREAT PLATEAU: NIGHTFALL IN THE DESERT . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ON THE GREAT PLATEAU: VIEW OF THE CITY OF DURANGO . . . . . . . . 9
ORIZABA, CAPPED WITH PERPETUAL SNOW: VIEW ON THE MEXICAN RAILWAY AT CORDOBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
PINE-CLAD HILLS FORMING THE RIM OF THE VALLEY OF MEXICO, 8,000 FEET ELEVATION ABOVE SEA-LEVEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
TYPICAL VILLAGE OF THE PACIFIC COAST ZONE, STATE OF COLIMA . . . . 18
THE FINDING OF THE SITE FOR THE PREHISTORIC CITY OF MEXICO BY THE FIRST AZTECS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 (From the painting in Mexico.)
PREHISTORIC MEXICO: TOLTEC PYRAMID OR TEOCALLI OF THE SUN AT SAN JUAN TEOTIHUACAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 (Exploration and restoration work being carried on.)
THE VALLEY OF MEXICO; VIEW ON LAKE TEXCOCO; THE MODERN CITY OF MEXICO IN THE DISTANCE . . . . . . .