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134 work, has given to its present proprietor, the Licenciado Gordoa, the estate of Mal Passo, near Zacatecas, (for which he paid 700,000 dollars,) and a million of dollars Capital: the best ores, during this time, have sold, according to the Registers of the mine, at 340 and 380 dollars per carga, (of 300 lbs.)

The ores of a particular level of the mine of La Purisima, which belongs to the family of the Obregons, (el ojo del cielo) sold for 600, 400, and 380 dollars per carga; at which price they were bought as late as 1817.

With such attractions as these, natural difficulties are easily overcome; and I have little doubt that,