. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. throughout the winter. The miningin the state is of importance. There are some silver, copper and lead mines. Iron, lime, chalk, and clays ofgood quality exist. Corn is the principalproduct, although everythinggrows in this rich soil, andthrough the introduction ofmodern methods of agricult-ure the produce of the Statehas been doubled. There are distilleries forthe production of alcohol, flourmills, and factories of cottongoods and prints. These areall equipped with the latestmachinery. In the Cuauhtemoc dis-trict there
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. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. throughout the winter. The miningin the state is of importance. There are some silver, copper and lead mines. Iron, lime, chalk, and clays ofgood quality exist. Corn is the principalproduct, although everythinggrows in this rich soil, andthrough the introduction ofmodern methods of agricult-ure the produce of the Statehas been doubled. There are distilleries forthe production of alcohol, flourmills, and factories of cottongoods and prints. These areall equipped with the latestmachinery. In the Cuauhtemoc dis-trict there is a foundry forartistic bronze work which hasbeen doing work of great creditto the State. Tlaxcala was the scene ofmuch human tragedy duringthe Cortes conquest. It isone of the oldest places in Mexico and it was founded by the Chichimecs.They came on the grand plateau about the same time as the kindred races, atthe close of the twelfth century, and planted themselves on the western border ofLake Tezcuco. Here they remained many years engaged in the usual pursuits of a. SENOR CORONEL PROSPERO CAHUANTZI. TLAXCALA 307 bold and partially civilized people. From some cause they incurred the enmityof the surrounding tribes; a coalition was formed against them and a bloody battlewas fought on the plains of Poyauhtlan in which the Tlaxcalans were completelyvictorious. Disheartened with their residence among nations with whom they ARCHWAY ENTRANCE TO SAN FRANCISCO CONVENT found so little favor the conquering people resolved to migrate. They sepa-rated into three divisions, the largest of which taking a southern course by thegreat volcano of Mexico, wound round the ancient city of Cholula and finallysettled in the district of country overshadowed by the Sierra of Tlaxcala. Thewarm and fruitful valleys locked in the embrace of this brotherhood of mountainsafforded means of subsistence for an agricultural people, while the bold eminencesof the Sierra presented secure positions for their to
