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It seems that, as if here, Nature had laid open all her treasures It is not necessary there to search for minerals: the rocky mountain on which the village is built. and all the side of the mineral stratum, commonly called there, Soroche or Plomiso fusible at a low heat. There is a common saying in Coris "I am going to gather some brushwood to melt a little lead next week." And when will very soon gather sufficient fuel to their debts this fact revealing, that the Coris people pay little or no attention to It is well to take note that the Coris Indian is ignorant of the means employel to separate the silver from the lead. gun of which he is very fond, or selling The Coris indian or the halfbreeds (two for very rich aud abundant ores which they treat by the amalgamatiou system.