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514 mine has given $31,000,000. Sinaloa has the districts of Rosario, Concordia, Mazatlan, San Ignacio, Sinaloa, and Fuerte. The Guadalupe de los Reyes mine has produced $85,000,000. Its ore yields from $85 to $115 per ton, using no salt. The Tajo in Rosario has given nearly 200,000 tons, which at $60 makes $12,000,000. It produces 24 tons daily at $125 per ton. The Jocuistita is also quite productive.

The state of Chihuahua possesses many mining districts, the richest being San Pedro Batopilas in the Canton San Andrés del Rio. It is not possible to ascertain what its actual production has been, whether 100 or 300 million dollars. No district of Mexico has been so celebrated as this for its yield of native silver. It has been worked of late by the Consolidated Batopilas Silver Mining Company, under the energetic management of A. R. Shepherd. He produces about $70,000 per month. The district of Parral has yielded $60,000,000, and is the second richest in the state. The Santa Bárbara is next in wealth. The Santa Eulalia, or Chihuahua el Viejo, produced from 1704 to 1833 $344,000,000, and from 1835 to 1844 $17,109,652; no gold. The Santa Rosa de Cusihuiriachic was worked from 1666 to 1810, when it was abandoned because of the revolution. Its estimated production, smuggling included, has been from 60 to 80 millions. There are several other productive districts. The state of Durango has several famous districts, and others of lesser fame are yet new and untried. The Candelaria mine in the district of San Dimas paid $11,000,000 of fifths royalty on its products. The mine is now scientifically worked.

In Coahuila, the San Juan de Guadalupe, district of Santa Rosa, produces free-smelting ore, which has gone as high as $5,600 per ton. The Santa Gertrúdis and Pabellon have yielded rich native silver ores as high as $1,680 per ton. An American company is working them. There are ten others