PASTORAL LETTER FROM THE RIGHT REV. C. W. SANDFORD, D.D. BISHOP OF GIBRALTAR,

During the month of November I paid a visit to Huelva and the mines of Rio Tinto. There are at Huelva about sixteen British residents, besides a large and shifting body of British seamen. On the evening of my arrival at Huelva I gave a short address to some seamen and others at a service held in the house of the Manager of the British Mining Company. The British cemetery I found in good order. A journey of four hours on a line belonging to the company brought me from Huelva to Rio Tinto, where there are about eighty British residents superintending thirteen thousand Spaniard and Portuguese workmen employed in the mines.
The mines produce in the year a million tons of mineral ore. The ore contains 4 per cent copper, 48 sulphur, the residue being mostly iron. The Company consists of Scottish Presbyterians, who have secured the services of a Presbyterian Minister to act as Chaplain to the British colony. Schools are established by the Company for the children of the Spanish and Portuguese miners. The representatives of the Company took me over the mines, and showed me great kindness and hospitality.