Border States of Mexico ... With a general sketch of the Republic of Mexico ... A complete description of the best regions for the settler, miner ... Second edition ... enlarged

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BORDER STATES OF MEXICO: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango. With a General Sketch of the Republic of Mexico, and Lower California, Coahuila, New Leon and Tamaulipas. A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE BEST REGIONS FOR THE Settler, Miner and the Advance Guard of American Civilization. The Mining Districts and Mines, the Agricultural and Grazing Regions, Cities and Towns, Location and Distances and Principal Business Men, Factories, etc., Exports, Imports and Productions ; to which are added, Resources of Mexico, Duties, the Trade with Mexico, Plow to acquire Property in Mexico, Railroads and Traveling in the Republic, Collected from all the Works extant on Mexico, and Reports of Travelers, Official Records, and Reports of Mining Experts and Old Residents, with Information up to date ; the whole making A Complete Guide FOR TRAVELERS AND EMIGRANTS BY LEONID AS HAMILTON.

SECOND EDITION : REVISED AND ENLARGED. SAN FRANCISCO, 1881. Entered aocording to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by LEONIDAS HAMILTON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. Introduction. Believing that a more complete description of the northern part of our sister Republic will conduce to the advancement of the mutual interests of the United States and Mexico, the author submits the result of careful investigation of the four northern states of Mexico to the public. We respectfully acknowledge our indebtedness to Ex-Governor Monteverde, of Sonora, and Uenjamin R. Rountree, John A. Robinson, Don Celedonio Ortiz, L. Gilson, and I. Thannbauser, of this city, and E. C. Hoffman, of San Jose, and many others, for much of the information contained in tbe following pages.

We have aho availed ourselves of the valuable and almost inaccessible work of Mr. Ward on "Mexico in 1827," from which we have taken everything of interest applicable to the subject-matter; and tbe valuable work of Mr. Mowry on .Sonora and Arizona, and the impartial Span ish work of Francisco Velasco on Sonora, and translated into English by Mr. Wm. F. Nye, in this city, in 1861, and the work entitled "Travels on tbe Western Slope of the Mexican Cordillera," by Cincinnatus, and Mr Ruxton's work on " Ad ventures in Mexico," and the late work of Antonio Garcia Cubas on "The Repub lic of Mexico in 1876," translated by Mr. Geo. E. Ilenderson, in Mexico, and official records and papers, and numerous other works, including pamphlets both in tbe English and Spanish languages. We have also been rendered valuable assistance by the Mexican Consul aud the Honorable Ex-Jud;;e of the Supreme Tribunal of Sinaloa and Lower California, Cailos F. Galan, now practicing law in this city, and many other American and Spanish gentlemen, who have kindly ren dered us every assistance in their power.