SALTILLO

[s. 662] : A city in Mexico, capital of the frontier state of Coahuila, 60 miles W. of Mon Climate, mild, temperate, and healthful. Population (1901), 23,996, mixed Spanish and Indian, speaking Spanish and Indian dialects. Station of the SBC (1880), with (1003) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 5 native workers, 7 outstations, 5 places of worship, 5 Sunday schools, 2 day schools, and 482 communicant Christians. Also station of the PN (1884), with 2 mi ionaries and their wives, 2 women mi ionaries, 18 native workers, 6 Sunday schools, 6 day schools, 1 terey. boarding school, and 436 communicants. Station also of the MES (1887), with (1903) 3 women mi ionaries and 1 native worker. 662