Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-03-20
FROM SONORA.
A New District in an old Country Beautiful Lands Barren Waste Railroad Matters, Etc. Etc.

Beautiful Lands Barren Waste
 Railroad Matters. Etc. Etc.
 BIT. Wm. R. Cbadsey arrived in Tucson this morning from Moctezu- ma District, in ihe eastern part of Sonora, about 1S0 miles from Her moslllo. The district in winch MT. Chadsey has located has been quite n popuIous country at one time, but the Indian depredatOrs have killed or driven both Mexicans and Americans from the district excepting those of the towns where the numbers were too great. Ranches have been aban- doned and the improyl ments gone 10 waste, here and there, with small mounds of stones near which tell the tale of bloody murders, and mark the resting place of unfortunate victims. These Cutrages are said to have been committed by the Chiricahua Indians of Arizona, who usually found that desirable field for plunder. The last IncursiOn of this tribe was made about ten months ago, when small number went from San Carlos reser- yation into Sonora, stole q number of horses, shot three white men on the banks of the Sonora rIver, and went iDnocently back to Uncle Sans fla theriy protection, and are no doubt happy in recOunting to their com rades the valorOus exploits among the Americans who had sJrayed away from home.
 The country is naturally beautiful, with plenty of wood, water and grass. At the settlements many of the semi tropical fruits grow with great lux uriance, and the people pass a quiet, lazy sort of life, almost out Of the world of hustle and activity. The hills and mountains are full of splen- did silver mines, many of which show quite extensiveworkings in ages past. The district is at presentan uninviting field for the prospector, for after the supply of food he carries with him Is exhausted, he must starve or return for more. Very little work is being done in mining, although many loca- tions have been made MT. C. T. Cut Ter has three good mines on which he has force of laborers employed. It is the opinion of Mir. Chadsey that the MOctezuma district n three years from now will show as great mineral activity as now exists in Southeastern Arizona.
 At Hermosillo Mir. Chadsey learned that the railroad was completed 3S miles from GuaYmas, and that it would open on the 1st proximo for traffic for that distance. The com pany is now replacing its Indian h. boreTs with white men, and expect 10 push work much faster in .he future. They have plenty of Iron rails for many miles of track, out have lacked ties. Between tres and Hermosillo the owners of the many fine ranches stubbOrnly object to the railroads passing through their properties, and some of them may cause the railroad company some trouble. One rancher, through whose cane fields the survey ing party were driving stakes, came out with a score of peOns and drove the party away. They appealed 10 Gov. Torres, who demanded of the rancher his cause for such conduct. He told the Governor they had not asked his permission to cross his property. When told that all damage to his crop would be paid for he said that the damage was nothing; that the AmericanOs were driving down stakes and would soon be layIEg down iron rails. He dId not care for the damage 10 his property but they had tram pied on hIs dignity as a lord of the soil, and they should never De permit ted to occupy one foot of his ground.
 This feeling is general only among the farmers OF the rich lands along the river between Eermosillo and Ures. The merchants hail the ad- vance of the railroad with Joy, while the politicians fear that with the great influx of Americans sure to follow, the whole State of Sonora will be dumped by them in the name of the United States, when their occupa- ton will be curtailed, if not entirely destroyed.
 Among the famous mines near Her mOsillo is the Minas Prietas, which was sold last summer by NIT. Gillson, of San Francisco, to a New York company for S400, GOO. A large body of ore has been developed and a sixty stamp mill is being erected. The com pany employs about 75 men and has very ifattering prospects.