recent discovery, but Mĕllādŏ, (likewise at Guănăjūātŏ,) which belongs to the Anglo-Mexican Company, is supposed to have been the first mine denounced in that district. At Sŏmbrĕrētĕ, the Vein of the Păvĕllōn has been worked from the time of the Conquest, though it was only in the year 1792 that it produced the famous Bonanza of the Făgŏāgăs. The mines of Santa Eulalia, in Chĭhūāhuă, continued to be equally productive during a period of eighty years, and were only abandoned at last in consequence of the incursions of the Indian Tribes.[1]
The riches of Real del Monte can hardly be said to have diminished in a term of sixty years, although the difficulty of the drainage caused the works there to be suspended.[2] The same may be said of Bolaños, which is likewise in the hands of one of the English Companies; (Vide Section II.)—and although, in some of the inferior districts, many smaller veins have been worked out, we have to set against this the immense regions hitherto unexplored, or if examined, only sufficiently so to afford some faint indications of the riches which they are now known to contain.
There is, therefore, so little reason to question the
