In the lands of the coffee, from the book, Searching for treasures
Santa Ana City, Santa Ana, El Salvador
Of course, Jon Jairo, Jean Marie, agreed. Even today, with all the comforts at hand, few people would dare to do so.”
“By this time, the settling of lands was in full swing. New towns sprout up from one day to another and all over the place. A good chunk of the south of Antioquia had been settled, populated and farmed. Homesteads and ranches were to be found here and there, most of them small. Fields, orchards, holdings, and claims, mostly worked by large families with plenty of sons. Families with twenty sons became common.”
Part of the reason for this happening was the downfall of the mining activities. You can’t imagine how serious the situation got when it finally crashed. All throughout the three hundred and some years the Colonies lasted, the only important aspect of its life was the mining of the precious metals. Everything revolved around the metals, in particular the gold. That metal was highly prized, in those times, as it is now, nothing new under the sun, they say. Many years ago, before the times of The Crown and The Viceroy of New Spain and those things, gold was abundant everywhere you turned. You could find it in the rivers without even having to dig for it. Once the Spaniards arrived, they set the Indigenous People to work extracting gold and gems. Eventually, they finished them off, plain overworked them all, such a shame, my boy!”