The border vidette., 1897-06-19
SONORA NEWS.
Mining and Other Items from
Our Sister State.

Guaymas.
The weather is cooler in Guayma.
now than it has 1een at this time O
year for years.
There are fewer dogs in the III.
town of Guaymas than there are il
the little town of Nogales.
Cattle in Sonora from LIano down
are not i'll very good condition at this
time of year. Many of them have tc
stand twice in the same place to make
shadow
Judging from the great stacks oil
mesquite wood piled up at every sta.
ton along the Sonora railway, Sonora
will soon be depopulated of that kind
of timber.
1t is reported that Mr.. Juan Pedra-
zini hasseld his ri III FL Carmen mine
near QuerobaBi" for S1,OOO,O0O. He
also retains few shares of stock in
the mine.
The flour mill of NJ. Late & Bro. at
Terrenate near MagdaIena, is now
running full time OH new wheat, of
which there is an abundance in the
fields nearby.
E G. Moore, merchant and mining
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in Nogales yesterday and will remain
some time. On account of the low
price of silver business is dull Gown
there now.
Al Brockman, an old time resident
of Nogales, but lately filling a respon-
sible position for the Copper Queen Co.
at Bisbee, came over from the copper
camp and is spending few days with
his Nogales friends.
At Guaymas Wednesday night the
store of '.La Moda" owned by A Man.
cini, was entered by two men but the
clerks who were sleeping there
awakened an several shots were fired
which brought the police to the scene
AMI the burglars were captured.
The Mexican Government hi; s
granted the Sonora railroad, the
Southern Pacific's recent acquisition,
a concession to to remove its repair
shops from Guaymas to Nogales
Sonora. An application to remove
the headquarters from Guaymas. to
Negales will be made as soon as the
Sonora ROAD is transferred to the S.
P, and al arrangement will be made
b. which line of Pacific Mali
steamers will be put on between Quay
mas, San Bonito and Guatemala,
touching Ell route at Mazatlan
Manzanillo and San Bias.
Chief Juan Maldonado and his
lieutenants game up to Ortiz Thursday
with General Torres and Col. Peinado
and was met by about enc hundred of
his men who lined up at the depot and
and listened to speech by General
Torres. The general told them that
everything had been satisfactory ar
ranged and they could so home to
work in peace The general came on
up to Hermosiilo and Col. Peinado re-
manned at Ortiz
Col. III. T. Richards IS in Guaymas
this week Oh business. The colonel
has everything about ready to conf
mence the survey for his big canal at
HermosilIo. 1t will require about two
months to make the survey and get
the rlats approved by the government,
and then the actual work of construc-
tion Will be commenced. This canal
will redeem about one hundred thou
sand acres of the finest land in the
state of Sonora. All kinds of semi
tropical fr,it can be raised on it to
great advantage. y large number of
Americans will buy land under this
canal and make homes there.
At Hotel Armada in Guaymas last
Tuesday evening a reception was given
ChieT Juan Maldonado of the Yaquis
with his secretaries, Loreto Villa and
Julian EspinOza, by the citizens of
Guaymas. The big dining room had
been cleared and the citizens met :nere
and shook the old chief by the hand
and drank bumpers of champagne
with him and his aides The old man
smiled OH the fair senoritas and drank