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MEXICO. 443 Dollars. Anglo Mexican Tlalpujahua Mexican Company . Catorce Company United Mexican German Company American Companies 3,700,000 850,000 200,000 250,000 3,000,000 440,000 60,000 Total 13,000,000 In this calculation I have taken the produce of the three first Companies at the estimate of their own Directors. I have allowed for Tlalpujahua what I conceive to be a very moderate sum, considering the exclusive possession by that Company of all the mines of the District, and the great riches that were, undoubtedly, drawn from them in former times, although the records of those times have been lost. For the Mexican Company I have allowed more than their present produce would seem to warrant, in consideration of their having only just received the means of carrying on their works with vigour, by the arrival of several German miners, whose assistance, in Oaxaca, was the more necessary from the inexperience of the native miners of that state. The expectations of the Catorce Company cannot be realised so early as 1830, as their works are now suspended : I therefore take the probable produce, in that year, much under the estimate formed in the preceding part of this Section. For the United Mexican Company I have assigned a sum, which is small, if a calculation of the probabilities in favour of the Association be formed upon the same basis as that which has been adopted for the rest. But Mr. Alaman's re- fusal to give an opinion, renders caution in a mere observer doubly necessary.