Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-11-10
Mexican Mines, Opportunities,
Climate and People as
Seen in Sonora and SinalOa

AuNS' thtS udu tle Tlsnts Ddt WheE
they stopped others from working the
4 government interfered and ended the
strike by the very thorough step oil
shooting the ringleaders in sight oil
the miners. And that fact is of inter
est in connection with Mexican min
ing-the government viii not permit
any monkeying with men, and
frowns on the labor union | have
seen several attempts to organize the
miners at Cananea: each time the or
ganizers were simply thrown out OF
the country. were given no chance to
explain. to elucidate their peculiar
/ principles, 10 eat even, in Mexico.
/ There Is no especial difficulty in en-
tering eastern or central Mexico from
the north with firearms, but one can
! not cross on the west side with any.
thing that looks as though it might
shoot except by special permission
One may apply to Gen. Lorenzo Tor
res at TORN, Sonora, for permit. and
known TO the general or amply vouch.
ed for, viii doubtless get it. With
this he can carry over what is speci
fled in his papers. Yaqui Indian trou.
bles in Sonora and revolutionary talk
of last year are responsible for this
Tightening OF the lines The Yaqui
might get you, take away your gun
and shoot some Mexican with it. Ii is
much better if the Yaqui gets you
when YOU are unable to defend your.
self. And then, if YOU had gun you
might kill Yaqui and there would be
less employment for the state troops.
But at any rate man doesn't want
very much in the shooting iron line
I in that part Of Mexico. A Colts 3S or
/ IS. single or double action, for the per
i sonal use and as bluff a Winchester.
/ short-barrel 16-gage pump-gun Tor
game, are plenty, and If one travels
far on mule.back he win be tempted
TO throw them away at some stage of
his progress.
There are several lines of passenger
steamers running down the coast. The
Pacific Coast Steamship Co. has the
( Curacao from San Francisco once a
month for MaZatlan, La PaZ. Santa
Rosalia, Altata and Guaymas, leaving
/ Frisco on the seventh and Guaymas
! the seventeenth. IL is an American
ship and runs practically on schedule.
| and In spite Of one executive officer
Is preferable to any other vessel. The
! Compania Naviera del Pacifico. or
! Mazatlans runs a number of boats. sew
/ eral of them of fair size and speed.
j from Guaymas south. There should
be departure every fourth or fifth
; day. But 'quien sabe,' no man can
! tell when the next boat will leave
/ Inc beds are bad, the meals not bad
4 Tor the kind The CAPTAINS have an
unpleasant habit of putting out into
( storm at meal time. The steward has
/ the unsayory custom of killing a beef
before breakfast and serving it in an
! hour, and continually afterwards dur
: ig the voyage. But aside from these
and a Few other trifling innovations
f there is not much to cavil at The de-
lays and lack Of information as to sail
/ ing dates are the most serious. Tho
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient road
has one ship, small and so low that
she seems to make sternway. that
runs from Guaymas down the coast to
any old place. a line goes once d
{ month Tom Vancouver, past The
American portss to Mazatlan, but it is
new and know nothing of it except
that the ships are fine looking, Glide
+ Guilt, trim, ocean-g going steel vessels.
/ They operate under q subsidy from
the Canadian and Mexican govern
ments. There is the Kosmos. a Ger
man freight carrying line, coming
around the Horn, and the Boleo Cop
/ per Co. has ship Or two from France
/ With few exceptions harbors on the
west coast are mere name. At To
polobampo operated by an Americaa
railway company, there is a dock at
which the company's ship lands.
Most other places one stays on the
ship or goes ashore in small boat,
for from 80 centavos to 1 peso the
round trip. according to the workable
appearance of the traveller When
! the small boat grounds on the shallow
bench the peon rolls up his trousers,
jumps into the water and you hop on
his back and ride 70 dry land. FreIsnl
| is handled the same way. Everything
goes off on lighters that draw about
three feet; when they ground, boxes,
bales, crates. go the rest OF the way
on mans back. 1t makes no differ
ence what the size may be. II il is a
barrel of salt or cement. OF a piano or
ouiDtal Of sugar. a man carries il
ashore or to the ship. Alfalfa. the har-
Dor for Culacan. was port when Cor
onado's men arrived there 3Se years
though all the original town and two
or three of its successors arc buried
beneath the waves and sands of the
Californian gulf. Mazatlan has fine
steel and concrete warehouses, but
the freight Is handled to them on
mems backs. At Manzanillo the gov
eminent has spent more than 5000
600 pesos, in building one of the fin
est harbors In Mexico. and proposes
to expend still larger sum, but so far
the railway by which It is to be reach
ed is not completed. Guaymas whose
business is large. has piers for the
handling of some stuff but passengers
and most freight are moved In the
primeyal manner. The ports are shoal
and some are shoaling In a manner
that is serious. Unless the Culiacan
river cuts new channel Altata may
soon be cut off from the sea and the
little railroad that reaches Culacan
find its usefulness departed.
This railroad by the way is a cur
ious affair. Built 50 years ago by an
English syndicate whose plans were
for no less than great transconti-
mental line, 1t struggled as far inland
as Culiacan. so kilometers, and there
stopped, without the ambition or en-
terprise to go farther IT Is bossed
by whlte-headsd. glum-looking ex-
patriate, who acts as general manager