Note XXXII-36 — Chapter XXXII · INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. 1800-1887.

It is said their yield was 47 to 2,537 oz. of silver to the ton. Dunlop has it that they yielded at one time $1,000,000 annually, though worked rudely and without machinery, and the chief one of them once produced $200,000 annually. Trav. in Cent. Am., 277. A French company undertook to work the Tabanco and Encuentros, invested a large capital, and sustained losses. The Loma Larga and Divisaderos, though represented as richer, probably fared not much better. Dunn's Guat., 225-6; Baily's Cent. Am., 92-3; Squier's Cent. Am., 291-4; Salv., Diario Ofic., Dec. 1, 2, 1875; Jan. 23, 1876; Jan. 28, 1879; Id., Gaceta Ofic., Oct. 24, 1875; Jan. 30, Aug. 15, Nov. 11, 1877.