(602) 774-1797
Bits of Torres Family History
Alexander Shepherd
The Silver Magnet: Fifty Years in a Mexican Silver Mine, First Edition
“We have wandered far from the Camino Real……, before I die I must go back to see, via a railraod train, the west coast,…I saddled up and rode Sixty-five miles to El Fuerte ……a pleasent cool spot is the hotel in El Fuerte......the hostelery was a hallow square with a portal all the way around........the courtyard was a big patio filled with lime and oranges, planted with many flowers of all colors and perfumes.......at this place Don Francisco Torres joined me.......There I was thirty-eight hours without sleep accepting an invitation to a baile at Don Pancho Torres`home in El Fuerte......I have eaten much, drunken much, danced much, told many pretty girls that I loved them.....which was more than true, I did love all of them.”
“A pleasent cool
spot was the hotel in El
Fuerte........At this place Don Francisco Torres
joined me......now fortyfive years old and getting fat with a prosperous
forwarding-agency business...... for many years Don
Francisco had been the book-keeper at Batopilas
(mining company) as a young man. When
he went to El Patron Grande to tell him that he must regret it but he
would be compelled to leave us because his sweetheart was a young lady of
his own home town El Fuerte..., and could not separate herself from her
parents, and in order to marry her, must move there to make his residence,
he was congratulated and given a handsome wedding present.
My father promised him the company`s business in the forwarding of
freight for the purchase.....many articles that a company of such size
employing fifteen hundred men requires in the way of things that life and
business demand......that is how it happened that Don
Pancho Torres and I were having our refreshments together with an
affectionate reminiscence of times past, discussions of the
future.........Lord what days!”
More History
(602) 774-1797
