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MEXICO IN 1827.
The other Mining Districts in the vicinity of the Capital, (Păchūcă, Chīcŏ, Zĭmăpān, Tĕmăscāltĕpēc, Tlălpŭjāhuă, el Ōrŏ, Zăcŭālpăn, Ăngăngēŏ, Sūltĕpĕc, and el Dŏctōr,) were all nearly abandoned, or their produce so much reduced, that no returns of it were kept.
The amount of the Silver known to have been raised since 1810, is, therefore, as follows:—
Dollars. | |
Zăcătēcăs, (average) | 1,000,000 |
Guănăjūātŏ, Gold and Silver, (average) | 1,608,034 |
Cătōrcĕ, ditto | 599,400 |
Sŏmbrĕrētĕ, ditto | 300,000 |
Tāscŏ, ditto | 400,000 |
Real del Monte, ditto | 14,285 |
Guārĭsămĕy, Săn Dīmăs (included in Durango Coinage) | 461,176 |
Northern Districts, included in Chihuahua Coinage | 316,767 |
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Total given by Registers in my possession | 4,699,662 |
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The above Table is only meant to show the impossibility of attempting, in the present state of Mexico, to ascertain the actual Produce of the country by any other standard than that of the Coinage. It was in the different Mints that the Silver raised was ultimately concentrated, as they