Arizona republican., 1906-06-30
PROGRESS OF WORK
 ON THE REALITO
Return of Neri Osborn and Jake
 Kirkland from SinalOa.

Jake Kirkland and Neri Osborn have returned home from SinalOa, Mexico. Both have been down to the scene of operations of the Realito Mining com pany MT. Kirkland having been there for several months. and MT. Os- born only about a month on this atest l trip. Mr Kirkland has not been feel | ing well for some time and decided l that if he were going to have a spell of sickness, he would rather be in the homeland, so he pulled his freight But he arrived here in good condition and was feeling as well as ever yCs- terday.
 Concerning the Realito company MT Kirkland said the five stamp mill is now running on good ore from the mine and is making a good showing. Some of the ore worked at first was of poorer quality as it was scrapod up from the old dumps on the surface but | a better grade is now available. The | operations have been somewhat hap hazard so far but everything is in or der now and good results are expected.
 The Realito mining camp is forty miles from Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, and Culiacan in turn is fifty ! six miles from Altata, the seaport town. A railroad, sO-calIed, runs from Altata to Culiacan. A sort of comic
 
 it's speed being from twelve to fifteen miles an hour. The passenger coaches are built in Culiacan, on the trucks of freight cars. board sides were con
 structed and the roofs were of corru-
 gated iron. There are few conven- fences within, but even in all its rough ness, it beats walking or coaching
 They left Culiacan last Friday morn ing and embarked at Altata Friday
 evening, crossing the gulf during the night, to La Paz the capital of lower .. California. Saturday afternoon they
 left La Paz and arrived at Santa Ros-
 alia on Sunday morning. They left
 there Sunday evening and reached Guaymas Monday morning At 3:3O D.
 m. Monday they left Guaymas and ar rived in Nogales Tuesday morning
 and in Phoenix Wednesday morning. It
 seems to be the custom of the vessels
 to enter and leave all ports in either
 the morning or evening and do their
 open sea sailing at night, presumably
 for the reason that there is less danger
 of running on the rocks near the ports.
 Asked about the city of Culiacan. MT.
 Kirkland said it claims a population
 of about 15,00O but it really looks l much larger than that owing to the l architecture of the place. There are put very few twO-story houses, most l of them being the one-story adobe structures, so it takes more houses to shelter the same number of people
 than would be required in an American r city Of the same size There are no
 street cars or other public utilities to r speak of except an electric light plant that was recently installed and seems , to be doing well. There is a very small colony of Americans in CuIiacan and | ne did not recall that any were en- gagged in mercantile pursuits. An oc- , caslonaI traveller, mining investor or
 some one connected with American
 lnVestmnets and a few professional
 men are about all there is of the Am
 erican colony
 - MT. Kirkland, though, had one ex- ! perience that illustrates how small the world is after all, and how impossible ? 1t Is for one to actually hide so far ! away he will not occasionally meet some one he knows. In performing an : errand for a Mexican lady that lived 1 at Realito he was directed to the pho- toSraph gallery of an American in Gull ? lacan, named LOhn. When he arrived ! he found that Mrs. Lohn was formerly Miss Alice Cooper. who spent some time ! Tn Phoenix number of years ago. or the city in general MT Kirk land says that it is quite pretty place . sloping back from the Culiacan river to the hills. Though the houses are mostly one-story, there are a few very,
 fine properties and many that are IlXed up with all the modern conven-
 fences possible in that country. Quite
 large part of the population is well
 10 do and employs an ample number oI servants to keep things in the neat est and most attractive condition. Q ].