
Your kind package of photos just received they were quite a long time on road I was delighted I assure you to get them and they occupy the foremost place in my picture gallery—
I send you by this same mail a few photographs that I had obtained. They are not very good but I thought that they might give you an idea of the country—
I have been hoping to go East the end of the year so that I could see once more—some of the old familiar faces—but I seem to be hoping against fate—as the manager here will not accept my resignation, but wants me to agree to stay another year instead—& am afraid that I will have to do so. While I appreciate his valuation of my services I would prefer to go East—but have been treated too kindly here to go against the wishes of the Company—
Everything here is still green—& oranges, lemons & bananas—are very
plentiful I wish that I could only send you some—as I know that you would
enjoy them so much—& we have
so many—I have just come from a trip to one of the mining properties belonging to this Company—situated
some forty miles off through a most picturesquely wild country that I ever saw—the mine is
situated at the bottom of a cañon running from fifty to two hundred feet deep by forty-five
to fifty feet wide, & the only access to it is down a notched stick for fifty feet till you
strike a narrow ledge of rock hung over an immense waterfall & along that slender ledge
you have to lower yourself by aid of ropes. I have been through it once but not for all the
mines in Mexico would I go down it again—Life is too short & sweet to attempt it a second time. Mexico is improving greatly foreign
capital is coming in daily—mines are being opened—the value of Mexican dollars is higher
than it has been for a long time & a general feeling of better times prevails—as the mail is going out & as our
mails here here are so uncertain. I will have to send this off hoping
you will pardon the short letter, but I did not want anytime to pass before I acknowledge
yr photographs so kindly sent—so acknowledge them by this same mail that they came in on
Hoping that every day will bring you
improved health & strength—is the sincere wish of
