coinnmuds the fort which is nt the
mouth of the Red River , and to all other
governors aud cnptnins , judges and
magistrates of the most Christian king
of Franco , to all military and civil
officers to whom these presents may
come , that on the 24th of July of the
year 1785) ) past , there arrived at the city
of Santa Fe , eight Frenchmen , named
Pierre and Paul Mallet , brothers , Phil-
lippo Robitaille , Louis Morin , Michel
Bcslot , Joseph Bellecourt , and Manuel
Gallien , Creoles of Canada in New
France , and Jean David , of Europe ,
who were received in my presence by
Sefior Dominique do Mendoga , Lieu
tenant Colonel , Governor and Lieuten
ant General of this Kingdom , at the
entrance of the palace , where said Paul
Mallet , being present with said sefior
and with Don Santiago do Reibaldo ,
vicar of this kingdom , the lord govern
or asked of him wliere they came from
and for what purpose. To whom the
said Paul replied , that they were from
New France , and that they had como
with the purpose of establishing com
merce with the Spaniards of this king
dom , because of the close union which
there is between the two crowns of
France and Spain. Having heard this ,
the lord governor sent their arms to the
guard , and sought for a place to lodge
them , because there was not a place in
the palace. I tcok them to my own
homo where I lodged them all , and a
few clays after I sent to search for their
arms and ammunition and some cloth
ing for their use they had saved from a
disaster which overtook them in cross
ing a river , where they lost nine horses
loaded with merchandise and their
clothing ; that being left nearly naked ,
according to their report , they had had
the hardihood to aook out this kingdom
aud to open communication for it with
the colonies of New Orleans and Can
ada , that despising all sorts of hardships
and dangers from savage nations whom
they had been obliged to meet , they had
succeeded in reaching the Spaniards by
whom they had been well received ,
having been invited to eat in their
houses and bo lodged there , while wait
ing for the answer from my lord , the
archbishop of Mexico , Don Jeau-An-
toine Biscaron , which required nine
mouths , during which time the Mallet
brothers , who had been at my homo and
at my table , had conducted themselves
in a very orderly and Christian manner ,
and being of a mind to return home , I
have advised them that in case they
should obtain a royal grant to carry on
commerce with this kingdom , they
should bring upon their return hero a
certificate and passport of the governor ,
because without that they would ex
pose themselves to the confiscation of
their goods , which would bo regarded as
contraband.
"In testimony of which , etc. Given
at Santa Fe , April 80 , 1740. Signed ,
"JEAN P.YE5 ! HUUTADO. "
* * *
Herewith ends The Conservative's
historical work. It will bo continued ,
however , if circumstances will permit ,
in the new weekly paper which is to
succeed , though it cannot replace , The
Conservative.
MINING BOOM IN MEXICO.
The Guanajuato Power and Elec
tric company is now a certainty.
This is a project which has boon
pending for a long time.
The project embraces the longest
distance electrical transmission
plant in the republic of Mexico
and one of the longest in the
world. The capital that will bo in
vested , all of which has already been
subscribed , will amount to some
thing over 8 million dollars Mexican
money. The project is to harness the
waters of the river Duero , near the
city of Zamora , in the state of Moch-
oacan , and transmit the same to the
city 'of Guanajuato by electrical
transmission , a distance of about 110
miles from the generating station
at the Duero river to the distribut
ing station at Guanajuato. From
this distributing station at Guana
juato the power will bo transmitted
to every mining district of import
ance in the vicinity and these distrib
uting lines alone will amount to
fully fifty miles or more. What the
project means to Guanajuato can
hardly be told in words. It means
the complete revival of the opera
tions of every mine in the district.
It means making possible the extrac
tion of millions and millions of tons
of low grade ore that heretofore it
would not pay to extract 011 account
of the expensive steam power. It
means that there will be largo
modern mills established that can
treat those low grade ores to a profit
and not only those low grade ores
that arc now -in reserves in the
mines , but the enormous tonnage of
dump ores as well. It means the
opening up of thousands of well de
fined veins which give fair mineral
values on the surface , but which
heretofore have remained unworked
on account of the expense of power.
In short , it means for Guanajuato a
mining boom such as never before
has been hoard of in the republic of
Mexico , and one that will again place
Guanajuato at the head of the list of
the famous mining districts of the
world. Guanajuato can already boast
of a production of over $1,800,000,000 , ,
$800,000 of which have boon taken
from ono vein. This mineral dis
trict covers an area of twenty miles
square , and while it haa produced
the enormous sums above quoted , its
mineral veins have hardly yet boon
more than scratched , and it is the
common accepted theory among all
those who know that Guanajuato has
the brightest future today of any city
in the republic. Within the past
few years hundreds of mining invest
ments have been made in the camp
by the very best mining men of Colorado
rado , California , Now York aud in
fact the entire United States in gen-
oral. Several of these mines pur
chased by American capital have been
opened up within that time in the
most modern aud improved fashion
and the results have invariably boon
successful. Mexican Herald.
LARGE CONCERN.
The Corn Products Company , which
has bought up the National Starch
Company , which bought in the
United Starch Company , which
bought out the Argo Manufacturing
Company , which sxicceeded the Ne
braska City Starch Company and
which therefore controls the Argo fac
tory in Nebraska City is rather a big
concern. Its capital is $80,000,000
and it will convert at its various
factories a quarter of a million
bushels of corn a day , or 75,000,000
bushels a year. This is about as
much corn as the whole of Europe
uses altogether. The company does I ( |
not oven then touch either the mill
ing or distilling business , both of
which use vast quantities of corn ,
but confines itself to processes akin
to the manufacture of starch. This
staple and the allied product , glucose ,
are its chief articles of output , but it
has 80 or 40 other lines , all made
from the by-products or refuse of the
corn. Among these arc mentioned
corn oil , sugar , rubber , mucilage ,
gumdrops , wall paper , soap , ink and
salad dressing. Cattle arc fed also ,
and it is likely that somewhere beer
may bo produced from starch , after
the manner advocated here years ago
by the elder Mr. Boyschlag , who
demonstrated by a practical test at
the Mattes brewery that it could be
done.
CONQUER MORBID SENSITIVENESS.
The surest way to conquer morbid
sensitiveness is to mingle with people as
freely as possible , and , while appraising
your own ability and intelligence at
least as impartially as. you would those
of a friend or acquaintance , to forgot
yourself. Unless you can become un
conscious of self , you will never either
appear at your best or do the best of
which you are capable. It requires will
power and an unbending determination
to conquer this arch enemy to success ,
but what has been done can be done ,
and many who were held down by it
for years have , by their own efforts ,
outgrown it aud risen to commanding
positions O. S. Mardon , in "Success"
for Juno.
