New Nick Carter Weekly, No. 22 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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He . NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY. of it, that is the district lying along the} Mexico and that there are some good gold Rio Grande.” mines there; so while he pretended to ‘This isin an entirely different part! kuock about for the fun of it, exploring of the country, but that won’t matter; of pagiper and poking around among the course you are well up in Spanish ?”’ ruins of ancient cities, he was all the ait. learned Spanish,’’ Trim answered, ‘time Iooking for signs of gold. — soon as I did English "me found them after a time in the “You know it 1s spoken < oreat deal State of Jal isco. in the far Western States’ er | “This is situated almost due west of “Yes, and you don’t hear the best of the City of Mexico and one of its bound- Spanish out there either.’ aries is the Pacific Ocean. ‘*Not much,’’ said ia with a smile, ‘ ‘Tt is an exceedingly mountainous dis- ‘it 1s mostly dialect that wouldn’t be un- trict, some of the greatest volcanoes in derstood in Spain!”’ | the world lying there. ‘That will help you in this work, for. ‘*Parmenter found the signs of cold on it is my opinion that the people you will a portion of one of these great volcanoes have to meet while speaking Spanish known as Colima, more than ra he else, will yet use a ‘“This is an immense mountain, in fact dialect that would puzzle an ordinary |it might Setiet be called a group of scholar. mountains for it eoversa great territory ! ‘“However, I’ll tell you the story that and is surrounded by a lot of hulls that I spoke of and then we’ll see. ‘would be regarded as high mountains In : “About a year ago a New Yorker, this part of ‘the world, ‘ named John Parmenter, was travelingin ‘‘I speak of that matter in order to | Mexico. ‘show why Parmenter had to em ploy a... ae ‘He had three or four members of his. guide. . <3 family with him. “Colima has been visited by men of oe ‘Parmenter wasn’t exactly an ordi- science so that in one sense it is pretty 3 nary tourist, although he traveled abc out well known. = | in’t let anybody; ‘‘You may find it described if you care 3 + in an easy way and did 7 = ee % Oe that he was really ona business|to look it up im two or three different = = font ‘but shat sores = mean that it isa. Sm ers = ‘Early in his life Parmenter had been | * = a a California miner. a1 oes oe had r made his pile and for a good -here are m = jtumber of years had been content to “4 ee the slopes at without — any ey “The people wae "five 3 in the State of “The hard times hit hi In, and al- anish | de- though his fortune was by no means scent and partly native Seana: wrecked, he suffered some, and as he was! ‘‘The Indians are seldom found in the tired of taking things easily, he decided | villages but have their settlements among to » look afr ound quietly | tor new mining the mou ntains. erty «Parmenter had been traveling around | “<<With his experience he wasn’t the) through the State x ae one mot kind of man to look for mining property | after another for quit be ooh, in Wall Street. finally took up hi iS qua 5 He also fought shy of the gold and | of Guzman. at ;] fields of our Western States, because} ‘‘There was a pretty fair hotel dees so Be ling might get hold of there|much better in fact than most of Tits = = ould be put at such a high price that | places at which he fF hac Es teers he investment would be risky. fixed apes it as his he< dqu arters. = Wh: . Par 1 a @ a wanted was to dis- 4 i ae t his family ac! ote wen Jalisco are partly whites of us # ha Le : d ~ % a . A 4 , =e ey * ¥ i ‘ at if _ . 4: 7 . >a : e4) hi i a "hele "ae Uae 5 al > > t % a ® <' i OM hae ” q L e P ‘ yy AY All ia” Waal 4 | 4 = : % = a 2) } ’ “9 .* 7 > * E ‘ 9”. ‘ * «+ ;* « ' ve ». 7 1 , ret el - %) . » | - -; 7 .P. + ‘ oe Te - i Poi * ' — a 4 . . 7. i 7~ ‘ ' ~ ed ; ; ; i , 7 ‘ ~~ a é zz hi 4 ee aay | rin a Py Mt laa ad 7 St ae Pae ee SS > h od