Average of the registered Coinage before the Revolution, (22,807,619 dollars) it is impossible now to ascertain the Mines, or Districts, from which it proceeded.
Without regular Returns, it is difficult to show to what extent the effects of the Revolution were felt in each; but, in those Districts where records were kept, (extracts from most of which I have been enabled to obtain), the difference between the Produce of the fifteen years, before, and after, the commencement of the Civil War, appears to have been enormous.
In Guanajuato, the amount of the precious metals raised, diminished from 8,852,472 Marcs of Silver and 27,810 Marcs of Gold, [1] (the produce of the fifteen years preceding the Revolution[2] to 2,877,213 Marcs of Silver, and 8109 Marcs of Gold; (or something less than one-third of the original amount of both,) which appears, by the annexed Table (No. VIII.) to have been the produce of the whole District from 1811 to 1825.
From Zacatecas, I have been able to obtain but partial accounts: it does not appear, however, by these, that any very great falling off took place in the early part of the Civil War, the Mines of Veta
