The oasis., 1897-08-14
SONORA SETTINGS.
Collection of Happenings in the State
 Over the Line.

Over the Line.
 Tuesday MT J. F. Sullivan of the La Posa Mining Co.,, came to Guaymas from La Dura, on business.
 Thenew steameron the Yaqui river, the Don Lorenzo is doing tremen- dous traffic. She has all she can carry every trip.
 Saturday of last week MT. T. F. Everett, locomotive engineer on the Tcrres x Prietas railway, died in his cab from heat prostratiOn.
 Mir. M. Marchebout. of the Hotel Armada at Guaymas, who had leased the aiming room service, has again resumed control, to it's great improve ment.
 On the 3rd inst. at La Nina Mex icana miner by the name of $. Throm, apparently a Swede. died of typhoid fever. Territorial papers please copy.
 MT. K. NJ. Sullivan has relinquished his lease of the American hotel at HermOsillo, and has gone east. The owner, Leon Bonnig, is again in charge of the property.
 Messrs. F. F. and Charles Cranz have bought of M Marchebout an ice machine for their ranch on the Yaqui river. It is surmised that they intend irrigating their cotton with cold water.
 Monday about five or six hundred YaQuis, with all their possessions horses, cattle, goats, dogs, etc. arrived at P0tam, having come from the region above to go upon the rich lands in that vicinity, which were sef araft h. tllo Mexican government fef their use.
 i lts [ VQIin, 0n tue. YaQni river is eni9ying decided boom. It is the point from which travellers to the new gold diggings leave the river, and there are more than fifty daily coming into the place to start on the trip. Attending to their wants makes quite trade: then there are about 600 troops Quartered in the town. which adds greatly to the life and activity.
 Mir. w. s. Farnsworth, chief clerk in the general freight and passenger agents office of the Sonora railway, has resigned his position to accept the post of general agent for the Santa Fe system at the City of Mexico, and on Friday of last week took his departure from Guaymas. He goes first to the headquarters of the Santa Fe, at Chi cago, and expects to go thence to the scene of his new duties in couple of weeks. MT. Farnsworth's successor in the general office of the Sonora railway, is MT. W. c. Sherlock, here tofore chief clerk in the auditors office.
 Mir. F. K. Dickinson, of Minneapolis, Minn., is expected at HermOsillo shortly, to go to SuaQui Grande. where he is heavily interested in some very promising mining operations. A sym dicate, organized by Mr. Dickinson, has bought La Nina Blanca, prop erty which was worked in the days of the Spanish occupation, yielding very richly, and will operate it on an extensive scale. A fOrty-ton cOncen- trator will be erected and everything put in first class order. Mir. P. Wilson, who secured the property for the sym dlcate, will be in immediate charge of the operations. It is only week or SO since Mir. Wilson received from the City of Mexico the titles to the prop erty. In the old workings of the mine there is great deal of rich ore in sight, and the value of the old dump is estimated to exceed Sl00 000, much of it very high grade.
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