Other tokens from Durango

Durango tokens

Ciudad Lerdo

Hotel Madrid

Hotel Madrid view2
The Hotel Madrid in 1893

The Hotel Madrid, facing the plaza, was run by Eugenio Gorasave^{The Mexican Herald, Vol. III. No. 86, 27 May 1897}.

Grove 1670
Obverse: EUGENIO GOROSAVE / HOTEL MADRID / C. LERDO, DGO.
Reverse: 10⁰⁰30mm. brass

Obverse: HOTEL MADRID / CD. LERDO / DGO.
Reverse: UNA / COPA

These were made by L. H. Moise, S. F.

La Numancia

La Numancia was a famous picnic area and canteen, located in the southwest corner of the intersection formed by calle Allende and calle [ ] (now Madero) . At the end of the 19th century, when its owner was Sebastián Vera Ortega, it was most important social centre in the city, with a small orchestra.

The orchestra at La Numancia at the end of the 19th century. The owner, Sebastián Vera Ortega, stands behind the harpist.

La Numancia, in its final years, functioned just as a bar and closed in the 1980s.

La Numancia

Obverse: LA NUMANCIA / C. LERDO D^GO
Reverse: UNA COPA / Y - C.

Durango

Comedor del Durango

Comedor de Durango Comedor de Durango reverse

Obverse: COMEDOR PUBLICO / DE / DURANGO.
Reverse: 1894

listed in Grove's Medals of Mexico as 302b

La Providencia

Tunal view

Providencia Providencia reverse

The cotton cloth factory, La Fábrica de Hilados y Tejidos “El Tunal”, also called “La Providencia”, was situated on the banks of the river Tunal, in El Pueblito, now virtually a suburb of the city of Durango. The factory was founded by the German, Hermán Stahlknecht, and the Spaniard, José Fernando Ramírez Alvarez, in 1837.

José Fernando was born in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, on 5 May 1804, studied at universities in Durango and Zacatecas and graduated as a lawyer in 1832. He was Deputy for Durango in 1833 and 1842, and from 1841 to 1852 held various public appointments: Secretario de Gobierno, Presidente of the Tribunal Mercantil and of the Junta de Instrucción Pública, Director of the Periódico Oficial, Senator for two sessions and Ministro de Relaciones Interiores y Exteriores. Antonio López de Santa Anna appointed him to the Supremo Tribunal de Justicia de la Nación, but he was exiled to Europe in 1854 for supporting the Plan de Ayutla, which sought to remove the dictator Santa Anna and led to the War of Reform. He returned in March 1856. Under Maximilian he again occupied the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores and served as president of the Imperial Council and in 1867 he was a magistrate of the Supremo Tribunal de Justicia del Imperio. When the Republic was restored, he returned to Europe and died in Bonn, Germany, on 4 March 1871. A scholar and bibliophile, he was instrumental in saving many of the books from the old convent libraries as well as pre-Hispanic texts.

In 1850, by which time the factory was under the proprietorship of the firm of Stahlknecht and Lehmann, it employed supervisors from New England and several hundred Mexican women. The Stahlknecht family, through the company Stahlknecht y Compañía, was also involved in banking.

On 1 April 1884 the factory’s owner, P. Emilio Stahlknecht, placed an order with the American Bank Note Company for a series of four denominations of company scrip with which to pay his workers.

Gomez Palacio

Baños del Huizache

Banos de Huizache

Obverse: BAÑOS DE HUIZACHE / GOMEZ PALACIO / DGO. MEX.
Reverse: JESUS L. TORRES / BUENO POR UN BAÑO

La Amistad

La Amistad 2

La Amistad 3

La Amistad, a textile company, was founded by Santiago Prince, Miguel Torres and Dr. Francisco Prince in 1887 and established a cotton spinning and weaving factory, located two blocks from the main square of Gómez Palacio. It had 36 looms (later increased to 45) with all the corresponding preparation machinery, and was supplied with cotton from the Hacienda Soledad and the ranches Las Margaritas, Fresno del Sur and El Refugio, in Matamoros, Coahuila, all owned by the company. The factory processed more than 2,500 bales of cotton a year.

The factory buildings occupied a square of 250 metres per side. In front of the factory were located the workers' houses, 8 blocks of 80 square metres each. The offices or offices were in the middle of the two factories, one of blankets and coarse fabrics, and the other of imperials and thin fabrics.

The company employed more than 800 workers who were provided with comfortable homes. As the factory had its own doctor, he was in charge, at the company's expense, of attending to the sick workers to whom the company itself provided free of charge all the medicines that were necessary. Their salaries were "good", to the extent that some of them made savings that allowed them, after a while, to build up a fund for their children.

La Amistad