Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-01
SONURA's BOOM.
General Revival of Business Everywhere NOt;ceabIe.---Mines and Mills---Farm-
 ing and Other Notes.
fNogales Herald.

That the State of Sonora IS just now enjoying something of boom-or per haps more properly general revival of business-there Is no mistake. 1t IS seen in the rush of mine operators and other capitalists into the state, the activity in mining circles, the earnest enterprises and the increased volume of money i'll circulation. This is es- peciallv true of that section trayersed by the Sonora railroad.
 NIT. C. P. Pearson, train dispatcher of the Sonora road, and who has had abundant opportunities for seeing the condition of business, was in the city the first of the week and told the Her aid that he had never known the state to be more prosperous than 1t is at present. He says big change is mo- ticeable all along the railroad and that the entire state so far as Is reasonably accessible gives promise of prosperity.
 The railroad is not only doing a good passenger business but freight business better than 1t has ever done.
 When asked to aceoSat for this inn
 
 of the year, Mir. Pearson said that a better class of men were going into the state-men of experience were taking hold of the mines as well IS other i'm portant industries. He cited the fact that all of the big mines were now running-such mines as the Santa Elena, San Ricardo, Minas Prietas, Trinidad and others, and that all of them were now more or less in charge of men who understand their business and that bullion instead of trouble and law suits, was being produced,
 James Farrell will Tn few days begin active work on the railroad he intends to build from a point at or near Imuris to his 1nines, the Cerro Blanco group, distance of about nine miles. Two schooners loaded with lumber for the road arrived at Guay- mas last Sunday, and ship with sev- eral hundred tons of rails Is now on the way, having passed the port Of Galveston some days ago. The road will be narrow gauge, and will be oper- ated chiefly for the hauling of ore from the mine to the mill.
 r. B. Chisem, of Guaymas, and other capitalists, are contemplating the erection of large smelter at Car Do. They are at present conferring with the Mexican government relative to a concession, and they proposed to put up works with capacity for handling sixty tons Of ore per day. ] Those who know Nlr. Chisem know him 10 be man of nerve and energy and just the man to make a success of such an enterprise as kc and his associates contemplate.
 MT. Pearson thinks the famous l Magdalena valley is destined in few years to become one of the greatest wheat producing sections in the south west. Each year farming is done on a more intelligent and successful plan and each year the product has in- 1 creased with corresponding decrease in the amount of labor. Two years of good crops have made wonderful change in that section and the flour ing mills, most of which are now pro vided with the latest modern macfiIiiIz- cry, have been kept running constant ly and the business is profitable.
 A new and fine large mill is now be- ing put up by Mir. Azcona, about a mile and half south of Magdalena and it is to be fitted with the latest improved machinery. The railroad company has put in spur at the site of the mill.
 A mine is now being opened up-ol rather put ill shape-twelve miles from Carbo which Mr Pearson thinks will prove one of the best and richest in the state. It is one recently sold by Harry Chenowoth and associates to an eastern company which sent one of it's members, Mir. McPhersOn here to take charge of the mine. Mir MePherson is man of good sense anC wide experience in mining and is developing the mine in fine shape and with the promise of immense produe ton.
 The San Ricardo is still strictly re liable and steadily produces large quantities of bullion, shipments being made regularly every few days.