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Between chores, pink-faced, white-thatched Axel commuted 45 miles to Cuernavaca to supervise construction of a 25-room house on 250 acres looking across the lush sugar-cane fields to the hills of Taxco. It was said that he planned to give the estate to the Government as a holiday retreat for its Presidents...
Cortes sent one of his lieutenants to Taxco in 1522 to dig silver out of the Indians who were digging it out of the surrounding mountains. But Taxco's first big silver boom did not occur until 1717, when a very smart young man named Jose de la Borda came out from Spain to show his uncles how to mine silver at a fantastic profit...
Borda built palaces for himself in Taxco, Cuernava.ca, Mexico City; he built a paved road all the way across the mountains to the capital; and for $1,680,000 he built Taxco's lovely pink parroquia, particularly interesting among Mexico's colonial churches because it was completed by the men who began it. Borda, a heavy speculator, went broke several times before he went broke for good. But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped. The gold...
...Taxco's second break had to wait for the 19th Century when, under Porfirio Diaz, Mexico's industrialists reaped another silver harvest from Taxco. The Huerta, Villa and other revolutions put an end to the Porfiristas and Taxco took the count again until Bill Spratling blew...
Bill Spratling learned architecture at Auburn, taught it at Tulane. He is an artist of considerable merit, once did a book of caricatures and satirical biographies with William Falkner. In 1925 he began vacation wanderings in Mexico, fell in love with Taxco, settled down to write a notable little book on Mexican village and rural life (Little Mexico), which was introduced by his good friend Diego Rivera...