Note XXXII-33 — Chapter XXXII · INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. 1800-1887.

Gold placers in the dept. of Izabal were being worked on a large scale. Several silver mines promise large yields when they become exploited. The Indians of Zunil repeatedly offer for sale in Quezaltenango quicksilver obtained from a mine which they keep strictly secret. In the departments of Quiché, Alta, Vera Paz, and Huehuetenango are salt springs and deposits; in Chimaltenango peat and lignite; between Guastoya and Izabal, marble; and in several places on the Atlantic slope, coal. The government had a mineralogical survey of the country made. Guat., Mem. Sec. Hac., 1882, 28; 1883, 34, 72-4; Id., Mem. Sec. Fomento, 1884, 42; Wagner, Costa R., 36; Pan. Star and Herald, Jan. 17, 1883.