ZACATECAS, tei-lci-tileis, a Mexican city and a state of the same name bounded by Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, Aguasca lientes and Durango. The city of Zaca tecas is 439 miles from Mexico City and 785 miles from El Paso, Tex., and is situ ated at an elevation of 8,044 feet above sea leveL It lies in a narrow and deep ravine, and is surrounded and closely abutted on three sides by mountains or high hills. It possesses a chain of mines many of which are among the oldest in the Republic and have produced enormous quantities of precious metals. Not all these are now worked, a number having seemingly become exhausted in so far as satisfactory re turns are concerned. A public library con taining some 20,000 volumes is maintained by the local government. The most notable build ings are the historic old Cathedral, with its front wall a mass of artistic carving, and the Theatre, a very imposing structure of modern design. In the heart of the city is the Market
House, an iron building admirably adapted to its uses and of pleasing appearance. A few minutes' ride southward toward a broad valley is the little village of Guadalupe, where there was a Chapel of Gold, built by a des out woman and ornamented throughout in solid gold gilt at great cost, estimated at not less than $1.000,009. Ilerc. also, is located the State Industrial School for poor bo) s. in which shoe-making, tailoring, cabinet-making. and other trades arc taught, to w:tiler with the rudiments of a common school _ education. There are The School of Arts, the Benito Juarez School and several other educa tional institutions of merit; the Civil Hospital and two theatres,— the Gonzalez and the Cal deron. Pop. about 60,000.