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city of See also:Mexico and See also:capital of the See also:state of See also:Hidalgo, 55 M. See also:direct and 68 m. by See also:rail N.N.E. of the city of Mexico. Pop. (1900), 37,487. Pachuca's railway connexions include the Mexican, the Hidalgo and the Mexican See also:Oriental, besides which it has 5 M. of See also:tramway See also:line. The See also:town stands in a valley of an inland range of the Sierra Madre Oriental, at an See also:elevation over 8000 ft. above the See also:sea, and in the midst of several very See also:rich See also:mineral districts—Atatonileo el Chico, Capula, See also:Potosi, Real del See also:Monte, See also:Santa See also:Rosa and Tepenene. It is said that some of these See also:silver mines were known to the See also:Indians before the See also:discovery of See also:America. Pachuca has some See also:fine See also:modern edifices, among which are the See also:palace of See also:justice, a scientific and See also:literary See also:institute, a school of mines and metallurgy, founded in 1877, a meteorological See also:observatory and a public library. See also:Mining is the See also:chief occupation of its inhabitants, of whom about 7000 are employed underground. Electric See also:power is derived from the See also:Regla Falls, in the vicinity. The city's See also:industrial establishments include smelting See also:works and a large number of reduction works, among which are some of the largest and most important in the See also:republic. It was here that Bartoloine de See also:Medina discovered the " See also:patio " See also:process of reducing silver ores with quicksilver in 1557, and his old See also:hacienda de beneficio is still to be seen. Pachuca was founded in 1534, some See also:time after the mines were discovered.

Here Pedro Romero de Terreros made the See also:

fortune in 1739 that enabled him to See also:present a See also:man-of-See also:war to See also:Spain and gain the See also:title of See also:Count of Regla. Pachuca was sacked in 1812,, and so keenwas the See also:desire to possess its See also:sources of See also:wealth, in See also:common with other mining towns, that mining operations were partially suspended for a time and the mines were greatly damaged. In 1824 the Real del Monte mines were sold to an See also:English See also:company and became the centre of a remarkable mining See also:speculation--the company ruining itself with lavish expenditures and discontinuing See also:work in 1848. The mines in 1909 belonged to an See also:American company.

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