Arizona republican., 1901-10-28
A NOTABLE EXCURSION
rso.tinc and Oratory in the Heart
 of the Cananeas.

,e-a,i,I core spondence to The Repub- soanO-After eating an excellent bu, H.,,,bat late breakfast at the Greene nisance in Naco. MT. Barnards an 1.'.oad. Al ready for the Cananea T,r,;tad !" we marched in body across .ha line where an engine and car was .- raadiress to carry our party to Vaiie lnIa III tba nresent terminus of the Ca roiIroad. Our "Conn' shouted. nau aboard;" the whistle footed and ."r little train pulled out of Naco. Vsa,,or.1 at precisely II o'clock a. m.
 THE NEW RAILWAY. s ts of the standard gauge, IS well ouiis ,-4 bsllasted to the Nalle Verde, twen- av-eiqht miles south from Naco June .;or The road swings around the east arn end of the San Jose range. with ,ha Aio range over to the ieft. ten "r sfteen miles away. The country Is onen. slightly rolling and covered with lux11riant growth of black and white grama grass. The first eight miles out = Naco there is a light up- grade: men 10 Valle Verde, twelve miles Tar .hor or the grade is slightly downward and two miles beyond valle Verde sta ,,or the road leaves the Rio Verde
 
 nuts down from the Ajo mountains. Forty minutes run brought us to the s,ation where carriages awaited our arrival sent out from Naco the day before. and after the party had satis- a.d the inner man at the company's moss room the start was made for the Cananeas, some twentytwo or twenty five miles farther into the interior. shortly after leaving Valle Verde. the wagon road runs across a mesa. and from this elevation, although a slight one the Cananea mountain with it's covering of pine timber was in plain view to the southwest. The Capnaea mountain range runs northwest and southeast, and near the southeastern end of the range on the northern slope column of dense smoke could be dis tinctly seen. indicating the site of the Greene Consolidated Copper company's furnaces, twenty or more miles away. After ascending to the surface of the first mesa two miles southwest of Valle Verde the railroad construction eE- countered a succession of mesas with Intervening washes, which put down from the Ajo mountains. and these ob- structions continue until the Little San Pedro valley is reached. thence to the Cauanea mines eight miles farther, the railroad grade is gradually upward til it reaches the future "city of Greene" At intervals along the line of the new road, construction parties are busily at work closing up the gaps. and by the first of December. possibly little later the shrill whistle of the locomotive will greet thousands of expectant ears and it's echoes be heard for the first time in the Cananea mountains of Sonora.
 INCIDENTS ENROUTE.
 The carriage drive from Valle Verde to the Cananeas was accomplished pro- ridentially without accident to either fife or limb; and nothing occurred to retard our progress unless I except the numerous halts caused by the con stitutional" thirst of Colonel Willis C. Harlow. The colonel is the prince ot good fellows; and by design or acci- dent. most likely design. he was honor ed by Mir. Bernard with seat in the leading carriage along with Governor YZabal. The medicine chest. as also did Mir. Bernard. occupied the rearmost car riage. Whether this arrangement was purely accidental or was a premeditat- ed malicious design upon the part Mr. Bernard. or an act of profound wisdom and of judicious forethought. deponent sayeth not. but so it was. However. the colonels constitutional malady required the medicine and numerous halts had to be made. and so our arrival at the Cananeas was de- iayed until about five in the evening: nevertheless. everybody was in excel lent humor. and the several halts seem- ed to add hilarity to the party
 THE TWO BANQUETS.
 On reaching our destination we were driven to the company's new hotel, a large two-story brick Here we were met by jolly crowd of gentlemen who greeted one and all with a hearty wei rome, in behalf of themselves and f me Greene Consolidated Copper com pany. The Cananea band was out: the public school children marshalled in ten ranks in charge of two Mexican lady 'eachers, paid their respects to the gov ernor; and the greetings over the sev- rai members of the party were as- Signed to their respective rooms. That same evening a grand banquet and governors ball was given by the com pany' in which the whole world par ucipated. and the Lancing was kept up ''ii the Wee sma' hours of the morn- champagne and other high class iquors and cigars were served with proalgality. At the banquet. ;, which asted two hours and was served just pI the dancing began, Governor
 occupied the head of the table auu lion. Mark A. Smith did the hon. oIs at the opposite end. Besides the
 gentlemen named the following Neats mad seats at the board: Dr. F
 suiiar' Senor Gustova Torres, Sr. Fe- S on'iho Laaiza. ST. Eduardo Carmen, 1lo itc' J. J. Pesqueira. ST. Fernando M;a enuez' Mr Max Muller. Capt, A. D. 1 or. Francisco Chopa, Col. Willis U.. hariow, Mir Norton Chase, MT. Ed u uara V. B. Haes. Mir B. F. Packard. M,.I Mn Root E. Morrison. MT. Geo. r1a, uheli' Mir. Scott White, Mir. Sey- lac, Q, Iuiloch. Mir. Al. Barnard and ,as ana the least conspicuous, the wri- ol these chronicles. Speeches and snass .S' there were many. but the Roeo. oI the evening was delivered by