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[*] posted on 1-4-2024 at 09:15 AM
Santa Rosalia's Eiffel Church


A fairly nice new article with photos:

https://english.elpais.com/travel/2023-12-24/santa-rosalia-t...


Many years ago, I also wrote about the Eiffel church, with photos: https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/eiffel_c...

Journal of San Diego History article from 1989: https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1989/january/history/

Photos: https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1989/january/historyimag...

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[*] posted on 1-4-2024 at 09:54 AM


If you stop by to see the church on Mexican Revolution Day, it is closed (ask me how I know).

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[*] posted on 1-4-2024 at 12:52 PM


Been there many times. It is beautiful. Early 00's we got stuck in the marina for 5 days waiting out a big blow. Spent lot of time walking all over the town.




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[*] posted on 1-4-2024 at 01:15 PM


David, thanks for posting this.
One excerpt that caught my attention was this line, "...the news spread and soon attracted a group of miners of German origin who, with their thirst for wealth, exhausted the surface layer of the deposit in just four years and left."

My great-great grandfather was a German geologist in Santa Rosalia in the 1880s. He became the postmaster in Santa Rosalia, and I've always wondered why. The explanation may lie in the surface deposits of copper being mined out.

Subsequently, he went north to the newly discovered gold at El Álamo. east of Ensenada. That short-lived gold rush started in 1889. https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1980/january/gold/

After the Gold Rush (best album by Neil Young, btw) he settled in Ensenada and opened a hotel. He started the first baseball team in Ensenada.
This photo, circa 1896, shows the tall German geologist in the back row.


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[*] posted on 1-5-2024 at 05:59 AM
great story...


With a personal connection.

Wonderful photo of the baseball team as well.

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[*] posted on 3-5-2024 at 02:24 PM


Regarding the initial discovery of copper - told a little differently than the article above:
"In 1868 José Rosa Villavicencio, a farmer in the Santa Agueda region, searching for a way across the mountains to the port of Santa Maria, noticed a number of small irregular blue and green balls on the ground in and around the Santa Rosalía canyon. He showed these fragments to some people he knew in Guaymas and they began to work the copper veins soon after. By 1873 there were thirty three mines registered in the area, most of them copper mines.15 The mining was practiced in a haphazard way, by numerous small operations, the work done almost exclusively by Yaqui Indians brought over from Sonora.16 The French engineers who reported a decade later on the conditions of the area and its future promise to the stock holders in Paris estimated that between 40,000 and 60,000 tons of ore with a minimum fineness of 20 to 25 percent, had been shipped to Hamburg and London between 1872 and 1885.17 Only ore of such a high grade was worth shipping to the refineries in Europe. By 1885 there were also some twenty thousand tons of eight percent ore piled in mounds near the beach, ore which the new company would include in its equations since it planned to build a smelting plant on site which could work this ore and other lower grade ore and refine it to a purity that would make it cost efficient to ship it to Europe. With the most rudimentary of technology the small concerns which had worked these holdings for over a decade before the arrival of the Paris company reported profits of up to thirty five pesos per ton.

Mining in the Santa Agueda area was hard work and making a profit from it even more difficult. The outcroppings on the surface were soon exhausted and it became more difficult and more expensive to gather sufficient amounts of high grade ore to make operations profitable. By the end of 1874 most of the mines had been abandoned because of these facts.20 In 1885 there were two companies left.21 These companies had bought up their neighboring smaller concerns and attempted to work the veins themselves. They soon realized that in order to do so profitably a large influx of capital was necessary, one larger than they could put together themselves. But from where would this capital come?

Enter the French: capital looking for a place to go [the Rothchilds]."

https://ucworldhistory.ucr.edu/DavisAbstracts/kortheuerpaper...
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[*] posted on 3-5-2024 at 02:40 PM


Thanks Cindi :light:



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[*] posted on 3-5-2024 at 06:10 PM


Amazing history and stories!




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[*] posted on 3-5-2024 at 10:31 PM


below the link to everything you always wanted to know about the Boleo Mine in Santa Rosalia (the cleaned up official version). Real life was that the Yaki miners worked naked and without shoes underground. And who needs a helmet? That's why there are at least 10 cemeteries (I might find more) with more than 15,000 graves in the hills behind town. With a workforce of around 3,000 that is a stunning number of graves

https://books.openedition.org/cemca/389?lang=es&fbclid=I...

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[*] posted on 3-6-2024 at 10:50 AM


Working in the mines may have been a better choice then than combat and slavery by your own government. Santa Rosalia overall grew to sustain many professions: machine operators, oven repairers, maneuverers, welders, turners, blacksmiths, mechanics, electricians, accountants, sailors, carpenters, workshop workers - their skill became famous; Maritime Customs, Port Captaincy, Peace Court, Royal Force, Schools, the Hospital.

Yaqui Uprising, 1896
In February 1896 an event known as the Yaqui Uprising began after the Mexican revolutionary Lauro Aguirre drafted a plan to overthrow the government of Porfirio Díaz. Aguirre and his men were able to convince several Yaqui and Pima natives to join in the revolt so on August 12 a combined force of no less than seventy men attacked the customs house at Nogales, Sonora. A battle then ensued which left at least three people dead and many more wounded. During the fight a group of American militia formed in the adjoining town of Nogales, Arizona and they assisted the Mexican defenders in repelling the rebels' attack. Ultimately the Yaquis and the others were obliged to withdraw from the area, ending the uprising and leading to a United States Army operation to track the hostiles. Two companies of the 24th Infantry Regiment were assigned to hunt the rebels who were being pursued by troops of the Mexican Army Colonel Emilio Kosterlitsky. However, the rebels got away, some escaped to Arizona. In 1897 a peace treaty was signed in Ortiz between the Yaquis and the Mexican government but in 1899 another serious outbreak of hostilities began and it led to the bloody Mazocoba Massacre of 1900, in which several hundred natives were killed. Manuel Balbás wrote in Recuerdos del Yaqui how some Yaqui's at Mazocoba survived combat, but chose to take their own life, either with their own weapons, or by throwing themselves from the cliffs rather than surrender to the enemy. ... " It was at this point in time, in the late 1890s and early years of the 1900s, that a large number of Yaqui people began traveling north to settle in the United States around Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, and into parts of Texas, El Paso ....

Later developments:
Around this time Porfirio Díaz began advocating for a solution to the Yaqui wars. By 1903 the decision was made to deport both the peaceful and rebellious Yaqui natives to the Yucatan and Oaxaca. Meanwhile, from 1904 to 1909, the Mexican governor of Sonora, Rafael Izábal, led "organized manhunts" in which about 8,000 to 15,000 Yaquis were taken prisoner and "virtually enslaved".[citation needed]
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[*] posted on 3-6-2024 at 11:33 AM


History... is not always pretty but for many it is very interesting and educational!
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