The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 25, 1889 Page: 4 of 8
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THE MIHEGLt WEEKLY MON1T0B.
I'UUMKIIKI) KVRKY HATUltDAY JIY
W. It. TKAGAUDEX.
The Trip to Mexico.
As stated in our last, we left El
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ceedingly rich. We were told ill sinking the shaft. Th" shaft is
tliut the mining district of Zacnte- i|ow 1000 feet deep and they have
eas has been operated 800 yeais put 81,000,000 in the church, j
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I'aso audits generous people at -4 and it is still ia the infancy of d< - which is said
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P. M., May 1st. Our train stop-
ped at I'aso Del Norte more than
an hour. Here a very affable cus-
tom house oHiecr inspected the
— train for dutiable goods, which it
the Itered at the post oflko as second- js ,1(J(.(|],.SH to say were not found
Saturday, May 25* 1880
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Orders for over 2000 cotton
worm lamps have been made in
Mill col a this week and still the
crusade goes on.
On to Sulphur Springs is on ev-
ery man's tongue now. This
road to Sulphur Springs will give
Mineola four of the principal trunk | contents of your grip.
in the spacious "grips" of the
newspaper men. Hut just here i de-
sire tojgive my,friends some advice.
When you take a trip to Mexico
have your "Nelson Club" put in
an old Prickly Ash Hitters or Fig
Syrup bottle and you will not be
subjected to the mortification of
exposure when t'pe collector of
customs opens and exposes the
At 0:20 the
lines of the state.
The following uncomplimentary
allusion to Attorney (icneral Hogg
appeared in the Dallas News of the
10th inst.
The district and county attor-
neys of this state were elected by
train pulled out with our party of
(17 persons comfortably quartered
in two of Pullman's elegant sleep-
ing cars. The twenty-five or
thirty miles of distance traversed
before dark closed in on the scene,
resembles very much that region
of Texas between the Pecos and
to be the grandest
velopment. When it is considered <)difice in the Republic except the
that there are numbers of localities great cathedral at the city ot Mexi-
in the Republic but little inferior co.
in mineral wealth to this enor- The pext city of importance ns
mous deposit, tin
mineral wealth of Mexico will be
understood. We think that it' city has a population of 30,000. It
would not be an excessive estimate is said to be a city of considerable
to say that there is enough precious commercial importance, but we
metals yet unmincd in the Ilepub- j passed it both times in the night
lie of Mexico to buy this continent, and could tell but little
-DEALER IN
Staple : and : Fancy : Groceries.
Buys and Sells strictly for Cash, conse-
incalcnlablte QneretAro, the capitol of the small CjUently sells Cheap. Call and See me Oil
■xico will be state ot the same name. 11ns i J r t t t i
Broad street, opposite Thos. Breen s, Hard-
ware store, Mineola, Texas.
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the people. It i- supposed that, j^. (jriin(]0 nii«l is adapted only
the latter had confidence in the .'. 1 J
abilities of their selections. Such ■ to stock raising. Soon after sun-
selections an? supposed to know ' rise on the morning of the 2nd,
the huv anil are sworn to enforce j the landscape began to change,
it. Therefore circular letters from i „row more beautiful and invit-
thc Attorney General commanding _
.1, .1,. 1,5*1. they are mk ",l" eftCn mlle> UnUI> at '
them to do "that which they are
nworn to do, have about tlieni a lit-
tle of insult and much of clap-trap.
If the excuse is offered that the or-
der in regard to betting on elec-
tions was issued because the law
has been so long ignored that per-
haps they had forgotten its exist-
ence, no such excuse can be offered
for a circular in regard to the trust
bill. It is so new and so sensa-
tional that it would be a dull and
sleepy attorney who did not know
its every provision.—Dallas News.
Just why the Dallas News takes
every opportunity, however trifling
to disparage (Jen. Hogg before its
readers is what the people of Tex-
as would like to know.
Since Gen. Hogg's election he
has broken the unvarying routine
of that heretofore ornamental de-
partment by looking after the en-
forcement of the law as a consci-
encious duty enjoined and clearly
defined by the statute, and his ser-
vices are duly appreciated by the
people. The News is a great and
influential paper, and, it is just
probable that life is too short for
us to accumulate as much inform-
ation about journalism as the
News management lias forgotten
but it does seem to us that these
uncomplimentary references to
Gen. Hogg are based on nothing
more than personal spite which
the people of Texas will say is un-
becoming of a great newspaper.
The MONITOR Cliungos IfautlH.
With this itsue of the MONITOU
our proprietorship of the paper
ceases. Mr. .I.. II. Mall of Wins-
horo to whom we have sold the
paper, will take charge on .June 1.
Mr. Mall is a thorough newspa-
per man. lie will move to Mine-
ola and devote his whole time to
the nawspaper business. lie will
give the public a better paper than
we have had the time or ability
necessary to do, and we ask for
him a liberal support. To the
citizens of the city of Mineola
we will say that our town can nev-
er succeed without a good news-
paper, and a paper cannot suc-
ceed without your liberal
support. A good newspaper is
the best investment that a town
can make as a means of increasing
its wealth and population. A poor
newspaper is a standing advertis-
nient that, the town anil country is
retrograding. It is a well estab-
lished fact that a newspaper is
o'clock, we reached the* beautiful
city of Chihuahua, the capital of
the state of the same name, which,
by the way, is the largest state in
the Mexican Republic. The city
of Chihuahua has a population of
15,000, and contains some stately
public buildings, the most promi-
nent of which, like in all other
Mexican towns and cities, are the
churches. It is a fact worthy of
remark that the Mexican people
spend more money in the erection
and furnishing of their houses of
worship than on any other build-
ings. Chihauhau was founded
about 1540. It has a history that
is dear to the people. The cir-
cumstance which is recounted
with more sorrow to the Mexican
people than any other in that city's
history, is the execution of Hi-
dalgo and his compatriots by the
Spanish during the revolution of
1811. A stone monument marks
the place of their execution. The
city's history contains also pleasant
memories for the Mexican peo-
ple, for it was here that Jau-
rez, the great soldier whose
memory we instinctively learned
to revere, met and repulsed
Maximilian's forces in t8G(> and
recaptured the city. One of the
first cannon shots of that engage-
ment fractured the bell of the ca-
thedral, which bell is still per-
mitted to hang in the tower as a
kind of independence bell. The
Chihuahua valley is very exten-
sive and fertile, and is in a high
about it.
The most of the party were out •
early next morning to catch the
first glimpse of the city of Mexico |
which we were now rapidly ap-1
proachiug, and at which we would)
arrive at 7:15 A. M. i
Soon after sunrise we crossed
the mountain range and descended i
into the basin in which is situated
j that grand and peculiar old city, j
I The valley of Mexico is in-
discribably beautiful. It is a ba-
sin entirely surrounded by moun-
tains and yet 7H4S> feet above sea
level. The temperature is even
and regular, ranging, we are told,
between 00 and 80.
Promptly at 7:15 on the
morning of the 4th our train pulled
into the depot at the city of Mex-
ico after having been out from El
Paso since 0:20 P. M., May 1st.
At the depot our party was met by
a committee of citizens and mem-
bers of the press of the city, with
band and escorted to the Na-
tional restaurant for breakfast and
later to the Iturbidc hotel, the par-
lors of wlrcli were kindly tendered
us for headquarters.
The reception committee con-
ferred with a committee selected
by our party and arranged a pro-
gramme for each day of our stay, a
printed copy of which was given
each member.
The cordiality with which we
were everywhere received is char-
acteristic of the noble generosity of
the Mexican people, a people
whose politeness and refinement is
but imperfectly understood in this
country.
, We will leave for a future letter
limes, bananas, and a number of • the description of the city of Mex-
dolicious fruits, the names of j ico, but before this article is closed
which 1 could not remember, we.will review the ground back to
These latter kinds never find their, Kl ^ 1,1 ,il.^neniil wn>' as to its
. , , , . ' agricultural interests.
way into our markets because their hln that long distancc of 1225
very deliciousness renders them I miles the greatest portion of the
too perishaolc to bear shipment■ j country in sight of the road is in
At Guanajuato. 200 miles further
on, there is one mine out of which
over 8000,000,000 have been taken.
From what we could learn we
infer that mining operations in
Mexico are not cunducted with as
much economy and convenience as
in the United States for the want
of modern mining and smelting
machinery.
The next place of importance is
Aguas Calientes, (Hot Water) so-
called after the large hot springs
located in the mountains about
four miles distant. This city con-
tains a population of 22,000, and
is the capitol of the small state of
the same name. It is located in
one of the most beautiful places in
the Republic. It has a magnifi-
cent bath house to which the
water is conducted by a special
aquaduct from the springs in the
mountains. Another aquaduct
conveys the hot water through the
streets of the city for sewerage
purposes. In this canal where it
approaches the city and pas-
ses the depot numbers of
women of the lower classes were
bathing with an utter disregard for
the presence of the gaping crowd
of Texas newspaper men, some of
whom were highly amused at the
pictures of beauty unadorned,
while others, more modest, re-
fused to dwell on the scene. Here
the natives were ottering for sale
all kinds of melons and fruits in-
cluding oranges, sweet lemons,
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any distance.
Aguas Calientes is feet
above sea level—its climate is per-
petually temperate—the atmos-
cultivation, it being valleys of stir
passing richness and under a per-
fect system of irrigation. The tortu-
ous courses of the irrigating ditches
can be readily traced for miles by
We will send the MONITOU and THK WEKKJ.Y FOKT WORTH GA-
'/. ETTK, to any address one year for #2.00, or the MONITOR and THK
SUNDAY GAZETTE for #2.2.5 cash in advance. No subscriptions accept-
ed unless cash accompanies the order, and none taken for less than
one year.
Mr. W. L. Vaught, the Foreman of our Job Department, has worked
in the best offices of the country, and is prepared to do as
good work as can be done in Texas.
pliere is absolutely pure and the the timber growing on their banks,
hot springs the finest on the con- jthi? h,ilT" l,een Plnnte(l by hnnd
4!., i tm it i 1 and all the timber ot consequence
tinent. lnese advantages make i t . .11 ' ,lt
0 I to be seen on the whole route.
the place a health resort uiiHur- j (j-rain is seen in n.11 stages of ma-
passed anywhere. From Aguas : turity from six inches in height to
Calientes the road passes on'the matured and reaped grain.
through a corner of the state of!Com i? al?° SU('!1 in, ilU. ^ages of
T1. , . . ,. , . . maturity trom the planting to the
Jalisco and thence into the state of j roasting ears.
Guanajuato. The first city of im- i Between those fertile valleys are
portance is Lagos, having a popu- table lands and barren mountains,
state ^of cultivation. It is the j lation of 20,000, and said to 0011-^ The Uble lands are rich and
grazing ground of North Mexico, tain but one American family. ^ l^'ochiotivo hut cannot be irrigated
From ('hil.ual.ua we pass on I The next city is Leon, the second ! "^0^° for" pSiuage0 The Uble
through Santa Kosalia and June- \ city 111 respect to population in the lands between Calera and Zacate-
ncz, beautiful little cities of five j Republic. It is situated in the cas and below that point receive
and ten thousand people. At beautiful and extensive I.eon val-' enough rainfall to^ produce excel-
Saez we cross into the state of Du- lev. That vallev is the finest ag- I011/ oroPs- .!'ie])ulm'n/ ..S(,riS0n
is from about the 10th ot Mav to
rango, passing through a corner ot ricultural district 111 the Republic, jst
that state to Lerdo, a beautiful lit- and its thousands of acres of xvav- A considerable scope of this up-j
tie city on the Jiuc of Coahuila. At ing grain and its great herds of fat hind between Leon and the city of
Lerdo the International railroad cattle make a picture rarely seen Mexico is very much like our:
leads oil' to Matamoras. (not the except as the offspring of an ar-
tist's imagination. wull The thousands of miles of
The city of Leon contains a pop- stone fences and irrigating ditches
ulation of 120,000 people and1 bear testimony of the patient in-
about 83,000,000 of Kmrlish cam- dustry of the Mexican laborer. We
J . . 111 • 4 wore tuM that tlie tanvi laborer re-
tal are invested here in manufae- wives oulv abovit 80 per montl. for
turing enterprises. On the 18tli ot, his work a'lui 0ften ]ogs than that,
June last a disastrous flood visited We noticed that some of those
the city, caused by a cloud hurst large table land larms were being
in the mountains near bv. The irrigated by hand from wells, the
-Eitirlar? Baips-
IN FRUIT TREES, Etc.
At the Nursery formerly conducted by my late husband, one and
a-haif miles West of Mineola, I have a large and complete assortment
of all the finest varieties of Fruit Trees, Grape Vines, Berries, etc.,
and all kinds of Ornamental Shrubery, in fact everything usually kept
in a first-class nursery, which I am anxious to sell and must sell in the
next three months.
Now is the time to buy while stock can be had at less than half
price. Write for prices.
Mrs, w. m. Mcdonald,
n!5:tf MINEOLA, TEXAS.
B. F. IAD & COMP'Y,
DEALERS IN-
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what the people ie . .
is the reason tin ;
relied 011 as i 11 <!ic ' • 1
triv's prosperity. V
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who l.av 1
during the I !i:>
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tesies, 1 remain,
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(not the
Matamoras 011 the border of Texas)
which city is only about AO miles
distant, and thence east to I'as-
tores and norjl. to Eagle l'ass.
From Lerdo the road runs on
or paralell to the boundary be-
tween Durango and Coahuila to
the state of Zaeatceas. The next
place of importance is the city of
Zacatceas. the capitol of the state.
The city of Zacatceas is in a
beautiful mountain pass surround-
' bv great li.ou 'tains, and is in
richest mining district in the
a population ot'
water subiuurgcd a great portion of
water being drawn out of numerous
Staple ond Fancy Dry Goods, Staple and
Fancy Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats,
Gents Furnishing Goods, and
Clothing.
Hardware, Tinware, Queensware, Drugs, and all kinds of
- implem'Ts,
We shall endeavor to keep a full assortment in these lines for the
aecommodation of our customers. We will meet all legit-
imate competition for cash or credit.
We thank you for your liberal patronage in the past and solicit
a continuance of the same.
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wells bv means of the
city, destroyed 2,000 houses nndhueket,
drowned several hundred pco-
old time ■
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Mineola, Texas.
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At this place a branch road leads
cast about forty miles to the city of
Is around the; (luanajuato, the caditol of that
state, Guanajuato has .1 popula-
tion of f.2,000.
nided u- a spleiided view ol the (inMiiajualo i !oca' >\ 11 ,a-
entire city, which has in it sonic , inons silver mine o.it of v.-lii. h
The n.oun-
itroad wind
ntain side about 200 feet above
pavements of the city. This
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haudsonie buihliiigs. I he liioun-1 geiv,.^ 1(1(1,(HH) have he. u taken a -
tain sides at every available point mentioned before in this article. It
said that the owners of tin
with the officers of
iv niatia :nl j arc dotted with milling shafts and j j
tr man v t our crude old fashioned hoistcrs,
Respectfully
W. B. Teauakdkn.
eating clearly that the whole
mountain range is underlaid with
I a bed of silver ore, which is ex-
iudi-! agreed
church that tl.cy would contrib-
ute one lollar to the church
for every dollar expended
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Plowing is done al
a crude arrangement mauc 01 wuuui
-that is a sharpened stick with n ' 111
ft . plates of iron fastened on it/ ull
This has a beam like a wagon. Bg
tongue to which a yoke ot oxen j
are hitched by the horns. 1 his
plow does very imperii-' w t:;
! yet tlie miles and mih ; nflux- , •
• ri-.it grain fields through which \\ nlSKlCS,
we passed will eoniparc in richness
0! yield and eh . 1111 i 1 u — of appear- ;
am' with any eultivatcti fields in
the I'nited States. Grain is r- ap. <1
with the old style reap hook. As !
an agrieultur.il • otintry the valleys |
of Mexico cannot be surpassed by
any country 011 the gh be.
The city of Mexico and its ob-
jects of interest will be treated ot
in the next article.
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The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 25, 1889, newspaper, May 25, 1889; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254284/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.