Identifier: mexicanminingjou1920unse (find matches)
Title: The Mexican mining journal
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Mexico City : Mexican Pub. Co. S.A.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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pth,but in much of the hill country the rock is exposed oronly thinly overlaid with dirt, and the vegetation islight. In the mountains there is usually some soil,and the slopes, although very steep, yield corn, but canonly be farmed in the native style with crowbars andmachetes. Some farmers prefer that section, becausethey are able to cultivate both sides of their land. Timber. In some respects Sinaloa has been overrated fortimber, as she contains very little saw pine and nonewhich is now accessible, but what is lacking in quantityis made up in quality and variety of hardwoods, whichare a delight to the cabinet-maker. There is some 201 TAE MEXICAN MINING JOURNAL. June, 1915. magnificent mahogany, ebony, maple, rosewood, lignum for fence posts and ebony their choice for gate postsvitae, mora, yellow wood and others of equal beauty and porch pillars. Most of the coastal plain is cov-and worth. Rosewood is a favorite among the natives ered with scrub timber, seldom more than twenty feet
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June, 1915. THE MEXICAN MIMING JOURNAL. 202 high, and with few trees that exceed two feet in di-ameter, except along the rivers. Many of these low-lanas, however, have fuel wood sufficient to pay fortheir clearing, as labor is cheap and there is somedemand for wood for running pumping plants, sugarfactories and for domestic use. Grazing. The greater part of the coast lands are covered witha dense growth of woods, brush and some grass, butgrass itself is seldom abundant in the lowlands exceptin the salt marshes- The weed and brush growth onmuch of the land will support more stock to a givenarea than the famous bunch grass region of the North-west. In the foothills and mountains there are somemagnificent grazing lands, with ideal conditions forstock-raising and a climate that is unsurpassed. Products. The principal products at present are corn, beans,garbanzos, peas and sugar, both refined and crude.Alfalfa has been successfully grown in two places.Bananas, oranges, lemons, mangoes, che

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