Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-05
GUAYMAS GOSSIP.
No Danger Of aRs7olution Interesting Businsss
 Itsms
GUAY,IAs, January l9.

, tion so long as he can find profitable and
 constant employment, and that is now
 the case here. Commerce, railroads and agriculture are using all to be had. According to the latest returns from the Custom-house, tfe tonnage of this port has increased fifty per cent. over the previous year. and the amount of im- ports exclusive of railroad supplies Is
 over one and a quarter millions, the
 principal part Of which was American goods, and as soon as the Sonora R. R.
 makes a connection it will be the end of most foreign goods here, where the same
 is produced in America.
 The Sonora railroad is pushing it's way
 along towards Magdalena, being now
 beyond Estrella, which station is twenty
 one and a half miles from Hermosillo.
 The company, since my last have re-
 ceived three more locomotives and some
 twenty-five platform cars. enabling them
 to supply the front with plenty Uf mate
 rial which they have on hand Already
 these people, are waking up to the ad-
 vantages to be derived from a cheap and
 speedy means of transportation. Mir.
 Reynolds of Cinquipa having sent for
 ward his ten stamp mill some three Lun-
 dred tons, to Hermosillo by train. and
 hardly day passes but trains are taking
 out machinery to the interior The i'm
 mense depot and shops at HermOsillo
 have been started and when completed
 the depot halfway to Punta Arenas and
 on the east end of town will be started
 Col. D. E. Robinson, General Manager,
 with his family arrived by the Newborn,
 and 1t Is expected that increased activity
 will be the result. Chief Engineer Nor
 ley, will start party out the coming week, to complete surveys of the connec- | ton with A. T. and $. F. + R. at or near | Deming. We off the outside are looking for | the time when the road will also connect
 with Tucson. Stages will hereafter COL
 meet at Estrella station, thus shortninS
 the time of mail some three to five hours | and thereafter follow the front line oI
 F. R. work. It Is confidently expected
 the road will reach Magdalena by the end of February as the track is being | laid at the rate of one and half miles | day. The large amount of money which | flows into Guaymas from the mining enterprises drawing their supplies from here and also railroad disbursements, have given businesss a general impetus, and money Is consequently plenty.
 The failure of Congress to pass the law abolishing the export tax on silver, has had a dampening effect on mining in- yestments, but it will not deter them. This State, has some of the best mines in l Mexico and if only properly protected | and fostered by the government would ] add greatly to their national wealth. | The death of Weberlins and the Apache | raid, has kept back quite crowd of pros | pectors who are here and at Hermosillo. l Gen. Ortega, Is reported to have had | fight with them, by which twenty of the red devils were completely civilized. The mode of treating Apaches practiced | by the State troops could be followed with advantage by our army. There are no reservations here, save the Iaqui river and Caiame is the principal agent of that. Several prospecting parties are now out on the Magdalena line of the railroad seeking for coal as under the new law such mines are uow donounce- able.
 The mine near Tejunga, sample of which you have, Is creating quite stir, and IS in fact the first bituminous coal SO far found.
 Messrs. Rodriguez and Arvizu have a mine some twenty odd miles from Her mosillo, towards Misas Prietas, which may be developed into coal, but so far, they have only indications. Dr. McCres- ton came by steamer, and it is rumored will go out to examine the "Barrancas" Alsuas water works for Guaymas still hangs fire, and as an investment Is one of the best in Sonora, the present pop ulation alone making it so.
 I. r. Spayd has purchased the Hotel de Ferro Carril, formerly kept by Messrs. Aguirre and Gajiola, and BOW the wea- ry and worn traveller from the interior can get true American hash. Consider ing the amount of travel between Point Arenas and Old Guaymas, it Is matter .F | ..ff..r rt has been made to complete the Street Railway, some time since granted to certain parties here. The concession gives the parties the exclusive right to transport freight also, and the railroad freight to-day, carried out by the rats Of mules and horses, would pay a good in- terest on the investment. The route is almost natural grade, and the only ex- pense would be the rails and cars to start it.
 Real estate out towards the depot to be built, is advancing, and Samuel Brannan has just concluded the final to burn brick at Batamo- tai, beyond the long bridge, intending . to erect a substantial building on some lots purchased at Punta Arenas. NIT. , formerly of San Francisco, is here assisting him in getting matters in shape. A brick machine is also on the way from New York to make brick for the State College, to be erected at the capital.
 l. C. Hessing, one of the owners of "Gabilan," the mine raided by the Apaches, has gone East after placing the mine in charge of a superintendent.
 The Corea, 10j days from Philadelphia, bark Wm. L. Beebee, Ship Bangor, and Sch Emily Schroder, have arrived. Sailed: Ship Storm King, with Mrs. Emeric and daughter, for Puget Sound, and Kate Irving and W. L. Beebee for San Francisco. The "Newbern," Capt Rogers, with a full freight, arrived the [ 18th, and sailed next day with SG0OO0 T treasure, SlO,OO of which was from Minas Prietas."
 We have had very high winds from ! the northwest, and oD tine seventeenth Imte showero of rain fell. The revenue cutter "Juarez," has gone to Tiburon Is- and with soldiers to drive out the Indi- ans, who are reported to be cannibals.
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