Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-28
MOCIEzUMA WILL SOON HAVE
 RAILROAD
Prediction Made That s, P, Will Run Trains Into Town
 in Eighteen Weeks.

al predict that trains will be run ming into Moctezuma in eighteen months. The Southern Pacific is now working on the line which will come up the Yaqui river to the mouth of the Moctezuma river and thence to Saqui, Moctezuma and cumpas."
 The above were the words of R. s. Vickers, the prominent banker and mining man now at the Roy hotel in Douglas from Moctezuma. MT. Vick- CTS stated that the southern Pacific surveyors now in the field in his sec tion had their headquarters in Mocte- Zuma and had completed their survey as far as Saqui below that city. Work has begun on the branch which will run north, coming up the Yaqui river from a connection with the Guaymas and Guadalajara east and west, or coast line. The chief engineer at Moe tezuma has given it as his opinion that the Southern Pacific would have trains into Moctezuma within eighteen months and Mir. Vickers is very conf dent that this promise will be realized and that when the road reaches there Moctezuma will become one of the most important commercial cities in the state of Sonora.
 MT Vickers went to MocteZuma three years ago and the longer he stays there the greater becomes his confidence in the future of the place. As an evidence of his confidence Mir. Vickers is spending more than S25,- GOO this year in new buildings there. During the early months of the year he built a banking and store building which cost S25.000 in Mexican money and is now having hotel built which will cost s12,000 Tn gold, the contract being held by c. D. Parsons of this city.
 No Sian of Trouble.
 MT. Vickers stated that he had not vet considered the proposition to leave Mexico on September 10th in accord ance with the uprising stories which were being printed in some of the newspapers of the United States and expressed the opinion that he would be in Moctezuma doing business at the old stand on September the 17th and 18th and after those dates.
 There is no signs of any feeling among the Mexicans in MocteZuma or in that vicinity against the Americans or other foreigners" said Mir. Vickers. eve seldom hear of the predicted up rising in Mexico and absolutely it makes no impression on either Mexi- can or American there. As is well known the Mexican officials and all the better classes in Sonora are very friendly to the Americans doing busi- ness in that country and fully appre- ciate what American capital and energy is doing to develop the coun- try and provide employment for the people and at good wages. I have been living at Moctezuma for three years and I can see no difference in the sentiment towards the Americans now to what it was when I first went there; the relations have always been most agreeable and are yet.
 At Cumpas understand that condi- tions are not so good and that there has been some talk there about the Americans and some race prejudice has been stirred by agitators and ir- responsible parties, but the conditions there are not serious. Of course it is not strange to hear at times of some irresponsible drunken Mexican cursing the "Gringoes," but no one in Mexico pays any attention to such talk, know ing that such sentiment is not strong enough to bring about unwelcome con- ditions.
 q am of the opinion that the Mex. icau newspaper published in St. Louis is chiefly responsible for any declara tions of dissatisfaction there may be in Mexico and that the hostile senti ment is not so much against foreign CTS as it is against the Diaz govern ment"
 Mining Industry.
 Mir. Vickers says the mining in dustry around Moctezuma is moving along qiute satisfactorily. There are no important mines in that immediate