Geographical and Statistical Notes on MexicoG. P. Putnam's sons, 1898 - 286 Seiten |
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Aguascalientes Altitudes American amount Average per annum Bank Bonds bullion Bureau Campeche canal capital cent central plateau Chiapas Chihuahua City of Mexico climate Coahuila coast coffee coined Colima commodities Company cotton cultivation Durango duties ENDING JUNE 30 expenses Federal District feet fiscal five foreign gold Greatest oscillation Guadalajara Guanajuato Guatemala Guerrero Gulf henequen Hidalgo imports inches increase Indians irrigation Jalisco July JUNE 30 Kilom's kilometres Kilos Lake Lake Texcoco land Maximum temperature MERCHANDISE Mérida metals metres Mexican Mexican Government Michoacan miles mines Morelos National Oaxaca Pachuca Pacific paid PASSENGER plant population ports Potosi pounds production Puebla pulque Querétaro railroads RAILWAY RECEIPTS Republic revenue river road San Luis Potosí Santa schools silver Sinaloa Sonora Spaniards Spanish statement Statistical Subsidy Tabasco Tamaulipas Tampico temperature in winter Texcoco Tlaxcala tons TOTAL EXPORTS trade trees tropical tunnel United Valley of Mexico Value vanilla Veracruz Yucatan Zacatecas
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Seite 5 - And, in order to preclude all difficulty in tracing upon the ground the limit separating Upper from Lower California, it is agreed that the said limit shall consist of a straight line drawn from the middle of the Rio Gila, where it unites with the Colorado, to a point on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, distant one marine league due south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego...
Seite 5 - ... north latitude, thence along the said parallel of 31° 20' to the lllth meridian of longitude west of Greenwich, thence in a straight line to a point on the Colorado River twenty English miles below the junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers, thence up the middle of the said river Colorado until it intersects the present line between the United States and Mexico.
Seite 268 - In 1510, the great lake of Tezcuco, without the occurrence of a tempest, or earthquake, or any other visible cause, became violently agitated, overflowed its banks, and, pouring into the streets of Mexico, swept off many of the buildings by the fury of the waters.
Seite 12 - But the highest ranges are formed mainly of plutonic and volcanic rocks, such as granites, syenites, diorites, mineral-bearing trachytes, basalts, porphyries, obsidian, pearlstone, sulphur, pumice, lavas, tufa and other recent volcanic discharges. Obsidian (itzli) was the chief material formerly used by the natives in the manufacture of their cutting implements, as shown by the quarries of the Cerro de las Navajas (Knife Cliff) near Zimapan.
Seite 109 - Other noteworthy buildings are the national picture gallery of San Carlos, the finest in America, in which the Florentine and Flemish schools are well represented, and which contains the famous Las Casas by Felix Parra ; the national library of St Augustine, with over...
Seite 116 - Company ; and these four lines connect us with the main systems of the United States, our lines being in fact extensions of the United States railway system. We have now two lines from the City of Mexico to Veracruz, the old Veracruz road passing by Orizaba, and the Interoceanic, which runs from Veracruz by Jalapa and the City of Mexico and is intended to reach the Pacific. All of our roads, excepting the one built by Mr. Huntington, have had large subsidies paid by the Mexican Government, and in...
Seite 12 - Mapimi, a vast rocky wilderness inhabited until recently by wild tribes, occupies a space of perhaps 50,000 square miles in Coahuila and parts of the surrounding States. None of the horizontal layers seem to be very rich in ores, which are mainly found in the metamorphic, palaeozoic, and hypogene rocks of Durango, Chihuahua, and the south. Apart from Sinaloa and Sonora, which are now known to contain vast stores of the precious metals, nearly all the historical mines lie on the south central plateau...
Seite 13 - ... the historical mines lie on the south central plateau at elevations of from 5,500 to 9,500 feet. A line drawn from the capital to Guanajuato, and thence northward to the mining town of Guadalupe y Calvo of Chihuahua, and southward to Oaxaca, thus cutting the main axis of upheaval at an angle of 45°, will intersect probably the richest known argentiferous region in the whole world.
Seite 96 - ... the hearty support of President Juarez, who shared my views and who was perhaps a great deal more radical than I was myself on such subjects, I sold the building which had become national property after the confiscation of the Church property, for a mere trifle, if I remember rightly about $4,000, most of that amount being paid in Government bonds which were then at a nominal price.
Seite 30 - Citlaltepetl, on the coast south of Veracruz, to which correspond, on the west, the Jorullo, in Michoacan, Colima, near the coast in Jalisco and the Revillagigedo group on the Pacific. Nearly parallel to these are the sierras of Guerrero...