Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-11-10

Inc people are growing llTeu Vi TeFO
lutions, and it is not too much to say
that Sonora will not see another. The
, better class of Mexican know that
these periodical revolutions are death
to progress; that capital will not come
to a place which cannot assure il
against loss. With the tide of Ameri
can prospectors now setting into Son
ora and Chihuahua the days of brigand-
age are numbered. A half dozen well.
armed American miners would put to
flight un army of Mexican brigands.
When we set out from Magdalena
the gallant Colonel came spinning
alongside the coach, mounted on a
magnificent charger, with a superb
Mexicansaddle ornamented with silver,
and with silver spurs, silver mounted
bride, ETC. He was accompanied by
an aid, both armed to the teeth.
About mile out of town the Colonel
called halt, and requested General
La Grange to dismount, as he wished
to give him parting embrace. This
ceremoney was performed after a
draught of brandy from the Generals
pocket flash. Cigars were lighted. and
the hero who carried on war for silver
coin disappeared in a cloud of dust.
IN THE SONORA VALLEY.
Our journey was now through a
very fertile Countrywide Valley of Son
ora. Toward midnight of the 18th,
the third day since leaving Tucson, we
drove up in front of the hotel in the
centre of the city of Hermosillo. Ali
along the streets people were sleeping
in cots outside their doors The
mounted police came dashing up to
make inquiries about the revolutionists.
We found beds in the interior court
yard of the hotel, as it was too warm
to sleep indoors.
Hermosillo-called the city of lovely
women-is beautiful town, built in
the Spanish style, on the banks of the
Sonora River, and surrounded by the
greenest of fields Unlike most Mexi-
can cities the streets are well paved,
there is little dust, and the large
grounds which surround the low, ir-
regular adobe houses, are filled with
groves of orange citron and lime trees
Toward the south, and overlooking the
city, towers huge mountain, rising
majestically from the level plains.
The city contains $4,000 people, and
boasts of one of the finest public parks
in Mexico.
We were driven about the town by
Don Jose Ortib, one OF the leading
citizens, and visited in succession the
large steam -four mill, the finest in the
county, and the Casino, where we
met Clarence King, chief of the geolo-
gical survey, in company with min
ing expert. Both of them had just
been examining some mines in the vi
cinity recently purchased by Eastern
capitalists.
Hermosillo is the base of supplies
for the States of Sinaloa, Jalisco and
the territory of Lower California. The
principal industries of Sonora are
wheat and cotton growing and mining.
The wheat is converted into -four,
which is celebrated throughout North
ern Mexico. The Sonorians who live
in the settled districts pride themselves
upon their women and their -four, and
there is proverb which says "FlOur
and wife must be from So nora" The
sugar cane is also largely cultivated.
One little village, thirty-two miles
north of Hermosillo, the home of Ortiz,
has 800 women and men engaged in
its -four and sugar mills. The firm
owns the village and almost owns the
people, as they are too poor to get
away Fruit also is very abundant
here The oranges surpass those Of
Los Angels, and lime, ounces, POM
egranates, grapes and citrons are pro-
duced in great abundance and of excel
lent quality.
POVERTY OF THE PEOPLE
In spite of the cheapness of all veg
etables and fruit, the common people
are very poor. Large numbers live in
shabby little adobe huts. for which
they are charged only 81 per month,
and yet they find this sum very hard
to pay. 1t costs about cents day
for them to live. Pinole, corn meal or
-four mixed with milk or water and q
little sugar added and panocha, or
sugar cane, together with frijoles, or
dried beans and tortillas corn cakes,
from the main articles of diet of the
poorer classes. Only the well-to-do
indulge in the luxuries of tea and cof-
fee Many of these people are very
scantiIy clad and nearly all go bare
footed. The children dispense with
cloth clothes and run about stark ma
ked. The city is infested with beg
gars who lie in wait for strangers at
the hotels. They are not pertinacious
and they will shower blessings on you
for gift of cent.
RURAL PARADISE.
We spent four days in Hermosillo
and early on the next morning set out
for LAS Delicias," the residence of
General Ignacio Pesquiera. We trav-
elled in q northeast course for the City,
of Ures, fifty-four miles distant. The
drive was through one OI tne HueSI
countries that can be found on this
coast; not even the famous road of
Santa Clara county, known as the
Alamida, surpasses it. For miles we
passed by green fields, with brilliant
spots of wild flowers here and there,
and groves of semi-tropical fruit trees.
We passed through many small towns,
and on the afternoon of the 18th en-
tered the road, lined with fire trees,
which leads to the oil City of Ures,
the capital of the State during the
twenty years that General Pesquiera
was its Governor 1t is a reduced
copy of Hermosillo, having the same
fine site, and the same abundance of
fine shade trees and picturesque dri YES.