The border vidette., 1907-02-09
THE STATE or SONORA.
interesting Report Made ny American
 Consul HOStetter.

the almost exclusive attention of the general public. That the State has other resources of great value, that it's agricultural. horticultural and manufacturing industries are of impor tance and building up rapidly, has ap- pealed only in a misty way. The investor has hurried past information bearing on these matters and delved into the further advanced and mora immediately remunerative field of oc- cupation afforded in the mineralized districts with their wonderful records of past production and present great and profitable activity, says the Cana nea Herald.
 Building of the new Southern Pacific lines, which will connect Cananea district with great new sections of mineral and agricultural country, is destined to bring about a wonderful change in conditions. Fertile valleys, great cattle ranges, extensive timber country. will be put in connection with markets and will attract colonists in large number who will find in the possibilities of the lands of the State attractions as great as the miner and the mining investor find in it's mineral formations.
 The agricultural. horticultural and manufacturing industries of Sonora have been very lightly touched upon in the past. Their extent in the state is realized by few. Neverthe eless from pursuit of these industries there are fortunes and building up enterprises which will in the course of the next several years assume proportions of large importance, result that must be attendant upon the advancement which the State is striding forward with. At the present time the large part of the industry represented in other than mineral development Is the State. Hermosillo is about 40 miles southwest of Oananea and with completion of the o. R Y. & P. rail- road from here to Imuris will be in direct rail communication with this city. Of mercantile and- industrial enterprise at and in territory tributary to Hermosillo, and of opportunities .he future will bring about, the follow ing report made by American Consul Luis Hostetter will be found of in terest and value:
 '.Hermosillo is headquarters for the northern military division. comprising the states of Sonora, Sinaloa and Lower California. It is city of 12,- 900 inhabitants and is supplied with all modern improvements, such as electric lights, telephones, waterworks, cement walks. macadamized roads, etc.
 A contract is about to be let for the erection of public market house to cost $IOO.OOO. Officials also claim they are going to put in good system of sewerage as soon as their market house has been finished.
 "The trade of Hermosillo amounts to over S1O.OOO.OOO annually, derived not only from Sonora but also from the states of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Lower California. There are four hunks in the city, consisting of the
 Banco de Sonora, with a paid-up ca pital of 100000, branch banks of the Banco Minero of Chihuahua. the
 Banco Nacional of Mexico City, and the Banco Occidental of Mszatlan, all of which are doing a good business. There are ten wholesale houses in the city, three of which sell only dry and fancy goods, and the others carry a line of general merchandise. They all have retail departments, but the main retail business is done by about twenty five Chinese stores.
 "About ten shoe factories, run aud controlled entirely by Chinese, turn out about $1OO,OOO worth of shoes.
 Factories for the manufacture of shirts, overalls, etc., with a single exception, are also controlled by y-Chiaese, the an
 nual output being about $450.00O ] although in some cases the merchants