It is of ill-fated mining vicinity. Incidentally, that one of the most authentic stories of an ancient prospector's shaft has been told. Thirty years after the conquest, a wealthy Spaniard, hearing of a mountain of solid silver, started on a journey of exploration. He traveled for days, hoping each morning that the sun would reveal a mountain peak of interesting treasure. At last, it came in view, he hastened on. But when he reached the base of the mountain, he discovered that it was iron instead of silver, flushed in spirit, he ramped that man at the foot of the mass of ferrous Indians fell upon his hand, and some of his followers were killed, while the leader himself was mortally wounded. He died while making his way back to the camp. The adventurous miner's name is perpetuated in the famous mineral mountain, Cerro de Mercado, one of the richest on the mountains of Mexico.

"No ancient mines of Mexico were more important to the aborigines than those of obsidian the alas'sy, volcanic rod from which the Aztecs made most of their tools and many of their weapons of war. Among the stories of lost mines which imaginative prospectors are constantly publishing."  Prepared over the threshold of the great investor, the search for some of the most significant events could be written, historians which would rival in picturesque and interesting stories. The narrative of the late Alexander Penniman, James Penniman, or a friend, was a testament to the power of the people. 

DENIES RESENTMENT IN PEACE AGAINST U. S. 