The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-03-07
SONORA COUNTRY
IMMENSELY RICH.
Mining Man Believes the Western Slope
of the Sierra Madres Best Mining
Country in the World.


man and prospector who has been
the southwest during the last twenty
years, returned to Cananea last week
from a trip of couple of months
through the lower country, having
spent considerable of his time in the
Yaqui valley says the Cananea
Herald.
81 do not believe" said Mr.. Walker
on his return, "that there is a land of
greater possibilities under the sun
than that embraced in the northern
part of Sonora and the. western slope
of the Sierra Madres.
''To tell even a part of the vast re-
sources of the section would be only
to invite criticism as wild enthusi
asst. People must see the country
before they can be expected to under
stand its almost if not quite limitless
possibilities. Even then one can
take away only comparatively small
idea of the immense things which
nature has put ready for the hand of
man in this great domain. Cananea
for instance, is but a small part of
this great section, yet the man who
would venture to promise for unde-
veloped ground the results that have
been obtained on Greene-Cananea
property in the last six years, would
at once, among the investors, be
branded at the least. He could not
get an expert to believe him, much
less to make a trip to examine into
the truth of his assertions even in
small part. OF course 1 am not say
ing that there is a great sweep of
country of the kind Cananea district
has in the state. Possibly there is
nowhere another such enormously
rich district, but what 1 do say is that
there is a great deal of wonderful
naturalization in Sonora and the
scope of it is so immense as to para
lyze the expert and investor. The
fact of the greatness of the section
and its mineral showing is one of the
hardest things it has to combat in its
onward march. People hesitate to
take hold of anything so big. In
fact, your stories of it sound like
fairy tales. Take the great proper
ties of the Greene Gold-Silver, for
instance. Old timers in the country
and experts who have been over the
properties and county of that great
company know that they cannot find
in the dictionary enough and suffi-
GENTLY strong words to tell of the
wonderful naturalization, ore show
ing and possibilities that there are
awaiting opening up by capital. But
to tell even a small part of this to
the stranger to the ground is to put
him on guard attitude with doubt
holding the balance of power in his
mind.
GAS to the Yaqui valley country
and the mining districts adjacent,
things are very quiet there as far as
the Indians are concerned. Mining
activity and agricultural work are
pretty generally resumed and the
outlook for the future is very good.
People there have taken heart after
the trials of the last couple of years,
which have greatly retarded progress
and the development of the country.
From now on look to see a different
state of things. There are undoubt-
edly very valuable mineral properties
in the country, many antigua work
fugs holding forth rich promises and
a great deal of formation yet unex-
plored which looks exceedingly good
for big results under proper develop
ment. AS regards agricultural work
and possibilities in the valley l do
not believe the chances are excelled
anywhere for colonists. Rich soil,
plenty of water for irrigation pur-
poses and a climate of unsurpassed
desirability, are all there, providing
the best foundations for intelligent
and willing farmers to begin upon.
Farm lands that can be had and can
without doubt be made to grow two,
three or four crops successfully dur
ing each year are available in suffi-
cent quantity to put the state on a
selt-supporting basis through the
production of the necessities of life,
including cotton and wool, for all
time. believe that with the COM
pletion of the new railroad lines the
Southern Pacific is building from
Guaymas to Cananea that this will
be brought about and that within ten
years you will see factories and mills
in Cananea producing cotton and
wooden fabrics, shoes and other pro-
ducts of hides, canned fruits and
vegetables and many other things for
which the raw materials will be
grown by prosperous farming COM
munities in the lower country. This
latter is big and rich enough in the
way of fertile soil to supply a very
large part of the republic with the
things which now to great extent
are exported from America and
Europe. The development of the
country, particularly through the
building of railroads and the open
ing of new mineral resources, of
which there is such abundance, will