The oasis., 1896-10-24
SONORA SETTINGS.

Last week thirteen Coidmbia wheels were sold in Guaymas by a travelling agent
 Tuesday evening MT. P. B. Chlsem. the we'll known Guaymas merchant returned from visit to New iork and the east.
 Work in the Blanca Julia mine, which has been suspended some months past, has been again resumed, and will be prosecuted vigorously
 Shipments of oranges from Hermo- siIlo and Guaymas will begin about the 10th prox. Refrigerator ears and box material by the carload are now going forward.
 Tuesday evening MT. J. A. Naugle, manager of the Sonora railway, re- turned to Guaymas from business visit Of several weeks at the City of Mexico. He was in the best of health and spirits. and reported business ai the capital 0f tfe rornh'ic as moving with celerity and dispatch.
 Fl Boletin Minero de Sonora is au- thority for the statement that work in La Neta Madre mine has passed through the ledge, which reaches q width of seyentv-one feet, all ore, and that paper ventures prediction that it will prove one of the richest mines in the Prietas region.
 Fl Boletin Minero de Sonora says that recently there has been discoy- cred in depression in the country between La Barranca and San Anto- nio de la Huerta, a deposit of very good coal, which has been used with very good results under the boilers at La Barranca. The vein is reported to be nine feet in width.
 Don Pedro B. Chisem of Guaymas, is authority for the statement that at Higueta de Zaragosa, in the Mayo river valley, state of SinalOa, Se1Or Saliva dor Castro has fine vineyard from which he gets two crops of grapes from the same vines each year-tlle first in June, and the other in Octo- Der. The remarkable feature however, is that the first crop is purple in color, while the second crop is white.
 Don Manuel Ferreira has sold the entire crop of lemons from his orchard at Las Playitas, near Hermosillo, to Luketich & Sresovich Yesterday Don Manuel. who is visiting Nogales, brought into THE OASIS office sample of the fruit which equals the far famed Sicily lemon. It is large, finely | folmed, of beautiful color, and per l fectly free from scale. They are far superior to the California lemon in every particular.
 Recently the federal government granted to Frederick Bartlett of Chi cago, II. T. Richards of Hermosillo, I and associates, most important rail- way concession; in fact, the largest since that of the Mexican Central. The charter covers 2,0U0 kilometeIs l with main line and branches, aud pro- I yldes for a standard gauge road to run from some point in the state of Chi huahua on the Mexican Central Rail- way westward to point on the Sonora railroad, with branches running north l into one of the richest mineral regions on the globe, and southward along the Pacific coast, thus insuripg the deyel- | opmcnt of the Eorth and west coasts of the republic. The line will traverse a fine timber country and open up a [ very extensive mineral region which is now of difficult access, and abounds in gold and silver properties, and which was recently favorabiy reported on by an agent of the Rothschilds who explored the states of Sonora and Durango. The region is regarded as the treasure house of Mexico, and it is believed will add a new gold produc- ing district equaling the most famous in the world, as individual miners are with the most primitive apparatus taking out large quantities of metal. The total extent of the road is greater than the Mexican Central's main line, and is the only great road the govern ment aas been willing to give a charter to with subye3tion, which on the main line amounts to S13, 600 per mile, but the necessity of the road from a commercial and s.rategical point of
 view. and desirability of opening uI