The oasis., 1896-04-25
The Best advertis-I Ing Medium,
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 IN SONORA. ]
SONORA SETTINGS.
A Collection of Happenings in the State
 over the Line.

Over the Line.
 It is reported that Mir. A. A. Abbott has recently discovered q new and very rich gold mine, not far from Magdalena.
 Don Jose Pierson Of Cibuta, has sold 100 head Cf cattle for delivery May l5th Sabino Otero vas the purchaser, and the price to be paid is $l3 per head Mexican money delivered at Nogales.
 Las planchas de Plata Mining Co. takes every care possible of the health of their employees. Manager Bornio keeps q well stocked prescription drug store, and every emplnye needing me- dicIne is given the same without cost to him.
 The Tucson Star is authority for a statement that on Saturday last Mar tin Weir closed in that city deal by which a group of valuable mines in the Altar district Of Sonora was sold To an eastern syndicate for Sl00, ,0O0. Part payment was made through the Consolidated National Bank. Mir. Weir and the purchasers have gone to the scene of operations in Sonora.
 The plarchas Mining Company are pushing work on tine new mill at Las planchas de Plata, and will have it in operation in the latter part of May. Ii is new ten stamp mill, with all iie newest and latest improvements. Most of the machinery was purchased through the well known commission house Of Roy X Titcomb, while a part came through Jos. pascholy. The mill will handle eighteen tons of ore daily, and from the lowest class Of rock now being extracted will yield clear profit of s727 29 daily.
 The Two Republics, published in the City Of Mexico, published this in- teresting item in it's issue of April l5th Mir. Fred s James and MT. George E. Bent, president and general manager respectively of the National Mexican Mining and Development Co. of Sonora, left yesterday morning for Altar, where the companys proper ties are situated. In speaking to q Two Republics representative con- corning the outlook of the mines Mir. Bent stated that prospects were never better. Sonora, as you probably are aware, continued the informant, is a splendid field for our line of business. Nearly all, if not every mine in that commonwealth can be developed to advantage properly managed Amer ican capital continues to flow in large amounts in that direction and it can safely be stated that the camps there will shortly compare very favorably with any in the republic.
 The mineral resources of Sonora are so vast that in contemplation thereof one IS apt to overlook the agricultural and horticultural resources of the state, now in the very infancy of their developments In the valley of the YaQui river alone there is a large body of very rich and fertile lands, com prising near half million acres, all ofwhich will be reclaimed and brought under irrigation by the great canal of the Sonora X Sinaloa Irrigation Co.,, now approaching completion. From the Yaqui there can be drawn a sup ply of water amply sufficient to serve thrice the amount of land or more; consequently there will never be that trouble over scarcity of water which perrenially occurSin some irrigatingre ions With irrigation the lands of the