Paper No. 1193
THE WATER-WORKS AND SEWERAGE OF
MONTERREY, N. L., MEXICO. [1]
By George Robert Graham Conway, M. Am. Soc. C. E.
With Discussion by Messrs. James D. Schuyler, David T. Pitkethly, George S. Binckley, Vicente Saucedo, George T. Hammond, Rudolf Meyer, and George Robert Graham Conway.
Introductory.
[1] Presented at the meeting of February 1st, 1911.
Monterrey, the Capital of the State of Nuevo León, Mexico, is built on the site of the old village of Santa Lucía de León, which was established in 1583 by the Governor of the Kingdom of León, Don Luis Carabajal. Four years later Carabajal was imprisoned by the Inquisition, and the village of Santa Lucía was abandoned by its few inhabitants.
In 1596, Captain Diego Montemayor, a resident of Saltillo, in the adjoining State, wishing to render a service to his king, Philip II of Spain, assembled his friends, and on September 20th of that year, proceeded to establish a town on the site of the old village on the northern side of the principal spring at the place. The town was named "Nuestra Señora de Monterrey" (Our Lady of Monterrey), after the Count of Monterrey (Ojos de Santa Lucía y Valle de Extremadura), the ruling Governor of New Spain, as Mexico was then called.