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The oasis., 1907-09-07
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or six weeks later than the present date. The contract for grading is let to Grant Brothers, a firm of historic fame as railway builders in the southwest. They graded the Atlantic & Pacific, the Santa Fe, the California Southern and many other railways. Long years ago L. A. and Alex. Grant passed to their just reward, but the business has been continued under the firm name by the Cashion Brothers of Los Angeles, California. In the business they have colosal invest ment in animals, wagons, blows, graders, scrapers, harnesses. and all sorts of supplies. Mir. J. F. Cashion. whom the writer met, with his brother, at Navojoa, stated that in this work they have no less than 5000 mules-in Sonora and Sina- loa.
 Wherever there are cuts to be excavated that can be done by steam machine excavators that work is left by the contractors to be done by the company which has in use now four great machines, with two more en route and ten more ordered. Where the ground will admit there is "shoo fly" run  around where the cut is to be, and the track goes on beyond without awaiting the excavation, while the fill upon each side is of sufficient width only to hold the ties and rails. When the steam excavator gets to work it takes out the cut and widens the fills much quicker and more economically than could be done in the usual way of cutting and filling completely before lay ing the track. When finished the track is laid through the cut, the "shoo fly" removed, and with the ballasting and cement culverts, which follow quickly the track is complete, and equal to any in the known world.
 With arrival of the train from Guaymas came MT. Vance Caroth- CTS of Alamos, returning home from a business visit in the Sonora me- tropolis We anticipated the pleas ure of his company in the stage trip to Alamos, but when he went to engage seat Mir. Morales in- formed him that the stage would be loaded so heavily with mail that no more passengers could be ac- cepted than had engaged seats al- ready. So MT. Carothers had to await the next days stage, unless he could meet with the luck of finding some one to join with him in hiring special vehicle. The bit of luck suggested attended the gentleman, and he reached Alamos at evening of the day of our arrival.
 When the stage was ready to start from Navoloa we found too true the statement that the vehicle was overloaded with mail. There were full mail sacks in both boots, under the seats, and in the spaces between the seats, with some on the seat facing us. What little space there was in that seat that was not filled by mail was occupied by large man who had reserved :, but did not take it until the stage reached house on the outskirt of the town. And we three were huddled up for ride of forty-five miles in way that was uncomfort- able in the extreme. It was ten
The oasis., 1907-09-07
ALAMos. SONORA, MEXICO,
 AUGUST 27TH. 1907.

Our stay at Esperanza and vicin- ity was prolonged to six full days, instead of the two or three we had anticipated; and when we departed we had been away from Guaymas a week and from Nogales two weeks: while every one of the seven days passed in the delta of the Yaqui had been days of pleasure and profit. We felt that instead of seven days seventy could be passed in that great delta without seeing all that is to be seen and without acquiring all the informa. ton available about that great and wonderful region.
 But few realize that the delta of the Yaqui has nearly half the area that has the world famed Nile delta; and including therein the Mayo region, for the great deltas of the two rivers are one practically, watered by both streams, Sonora includes region that presents ful. ly as great an area of arable land as. that included in Egypt, with all the water necessary for its success ful reclamation and cultivation. During centuries Egyp.. has sup ported population that Is counted in millions. In the great delta of the Yaqui where there are hardly as many thousands, there are pre- sented all the possibilities that Egypt developed forty centuries ago. Soil, climate and production are identical; and what has been done in the Old World can be re- peated in the New.
 But that is theme that can be expanded ad IibitIm, and its treat ment is postponed for another time. The topic of this letter is to present an account of where we have been and the good people we have seen since leaving Esperanza and the works of the Richardson Construc- ton Company, which we did about week ago.
 Our first stop was at Fundicion, on the Cocoraque arroyo, thirty-six kilometres from Esperanza, in a direction a little east of south, and about the same distance north from the Mayo river, at Navojoa. There we were greeted cordially and made at home by MT. J. M. Brooks IT,, who is construction engineer and assistant superintendent for the Compania Metalurgica 9 Refnadora del Pacifco, which is erecting at that point great reduction plant that will have eventually capaci- ty of 300 tons daily, and will be ready within two or three months to treat daily 250 tons of ore. The evening of our arrival Mir. Theodore Douglas, president of the company, returned from the mines, at El Cobre, about thirty-fve miles dis tant, in the vicinity of Bayoreca, the antiguo capital of Sonora and oinaloa, which were known then 25O years ago-as the Province of the Occident. With MT. Douglas we had very pleasant visit, and were shown by him and MT. Brooks all over the works, where there are many men working, assembling the great and ponderous machinery
The oasis., 1907-09-07

ation to join him was extended quickly and gratefully accepted.)
 Don Jesus Villederain has been mentioned in THE OASIS in another way. He is the gentleman whose great crop of garbanzoS and the rich return therefrom was described in the "Wayside Notes" of January, 1905. He bought from the federal government 2500 hectares of land upon the Mayo river, near Huata- bampo He cleared the land, dug canal and dam, to take water out of the river, ditched the ground, plowed it and planted the seed, cultivated the growing plants, harvested and threshed the gar- bdnzos, and delivered the crop at Huatabampo, where he sold it for cash. After he had paid the cost of all the items enumerated herein, including the price of the land, Don Jesus banked surplus of 0,000, Mexican money from his garbanzO crop of that one season. Anywhere else in the world land which will do that is sold at $50, to $200, gold, per acre. In the Yaqui delta are thousands of acres that will do so, and their market world wide and without limit.
 About time the train was due we went to the station at Fundicion, which is about mile from the smelter site, and then we had to wait three hours for 1t to come. A heavy train and little mishaps had caused delay; and the category of misfortune was not ended. Be- tween Fundicion and Navojoa near ly two hours more were lost, and the train was almost five hours late. We had intended going up to Ala mos by stage that night; but the stage had been gone an hour. We put up at the Hotel del Paci6co, kept by Mir. Antonio Morales, a prominent merchant of Navojoa. Mir. Morales is very attentive to his guests, and speaks English, two facts which popularize him with many Americans coming along.
 We had intended to stop at Ma vojoa on our return and go out to the end of the track upon the Qua dalajara extension; but the change in programme on account of miss ing the stage gave us the visit few days sooner, and we learned that it is not worth while to go out there this trip. The tracklaying machine is up on the Tonichi ex- tension, and there is nothing doing in the other direction. At Navojoa we met many people we know. There were Frank Gillett, who is trainmaster in the construction department; H. Tupper Saunders, who has charge of the commissary department in the same service; Demetrio Velasco, Carlos Joffroy and Frank Peltier, who are clerks and interpreters in the various off, fees. All these gentlemen have resided in Nogales, and claim their homes there yet, except Mir. Gillett, whose family live in Tucson.
 Navojoa is 196 kilometres from Guaymas, and will be a division point as we'll as the junction of the Alamos branch of the railway. 4 large round house and extensive station buildings of brick and stone are to be erected, while yards are being laid out with ample trackage.
 The end of the track extends
The oasis., 1907-09-07

no part of this relation. Like the parallel between the Yaqui delta and that of the Nile, it is a topic reserved for another time.
 Along the Cocoraque arroyo are number of fine ranches, each in- cluding several Sitios of land la si- too is Spanish league-about 24 English miles square). The bot tom lands along the arroyo, and some of the mesa lands above are irrigated with water taken from the Cocoraque, and yield abundant ly of all the varied agricultural and horticultural products of the region. Upon the unirrigated lands the owners of the ranches range large herds of cattle. Gus tered about the hdciendd, (home ranche) are the homes of the work men employed upon the estate, and their families, making usually quite little village, with two or three hundred people. There the chief owner and manager of the estate lives in a semi-patriarchal state, such as existed in California in "the splendid, idle forties," as that now historic time has been described.
 One of the most important of these ranches on the Cocoraque is the Guadalupe, of which Don Jesus Villederain and associates are the owners, and Don Jesus himself is the chief owner and manager. It includes four sitios of which area land in extent equalling about one sitio lying along the arroyo, is irrig- able and cultivable. The company erecting the smelter has bought from Don Jesus the site on which it Is erected-which site lies upon the east side of the track.
 Upon the west side of the track Don Jesus is erecting the extensive buildings for a new hacienda, with the outlying buildings for the help, and they are nearly completed. The hacienda itself includes two great adobe structures, each with outside dimensions of about 300 feet on all sides-as large as city blocks. Inside, surrounding ex- tensive patioS are the buildings in which are to be the living rooms, store rooms, workshops, cotton gin, granaries, etc., etc.
 The old hacienda, now about to be abandoned is about two ki- lometres up the Cocoraque. There THE OASIS man once visited Don Jesus, and was very hospitably en- tertained. is the place preserved in former batch of wayside notes January, 1905-which the writer was riding to make late one night. Not liking the bearing of the stars and thinking he had got the wrong road he concluded to make camp and await daylight. So the mule was tethered amid some good grass beside the road, fire built, saddle and blankets made into a bed whereon the weary scribe slept in that profound slumber known by those only whose consciences are clear-or calloused. About three o'clock in the morning he was awakened by the growing of cocks at the hacienda he had been seek ing when he went into camp. Had they been like Nogales roosters- growing all the time-he would not have made camp. Sleeping several hours more the traveller I
The oasis., 1907-09-07
WAYSlDE NOTES

nThe Oasis" Man and the "Smali Boy" Continue Their Journey, and Reach AIsmos, the One Time capi- tai of Sonora.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03

Tickets at Hendricks Saturday even
ing, Nov. 80, at seven o'clock.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03
TALK OF THE Town


William Ives II Neubary visited
relatives Ia the ely Yesterday.
Joseph Decd wcnl q New Haven,
Coma. today q slsit relatives
TIE regular meeting ~ the y. +. Q.
- uil y HID Wednesday evening q
7iso o'eloek
Thsfr via be q special meeting q
~. johns Court, 6. - - tAls etvHins
Al 7 O'clock.
n. nufnsu q Manchester. - H.. and
H. echHoisrf 20 Concord, y. H. were
business visitors Ia the city today.
~. o. IS. Lane II Great Darlington,
Mass. i expected tonight called here
81 che sefioss eondl4ien u bis tatheef,
4. ". i.ane.
Thomas kesron. who has been work.
ing a. head bartender At Alexander Z
AlAekle's saloon, resigned BIZ position
there yesterday
james Maeigan y Canada died AZ the
home OF Daniel pfaii ~ Wchstsffills
last evening at $50 a@clack. Tho fun
eFal services will ~ held from the houss
Tomorrow afternoon 81 1880 o'el0ek. Iae
burial viii - Ia he Wilson cemetery
The ,auug people ~ tae uniyersallfs
church win have their monthly business
meeting and social Ia the tcstrY q the
church Friday evening" December q, be-
ginning a. ss9o. There viii be must.
eel and literary program and a social
time after the husiness
The Wonderland Moving Picture Co,
AZ the pavilion opened the twenty
seventh week lat night with tae usual
crowded house and = most wonderful
display Of piciurcs II real life. Inere
are eve comedy features iui Of excite
msnt and funny situations.
4 ioint meeting 81 the A. O. H.. disi,
sion Of Washington and thlttenden
counieis win b. held In Montpelier next
SUNDAY afternoon. December 5. George
II. Sheehan Of Boston. national organ
igcr. viii deliver a lecture on hiiefnian'
ism in 81. Augustinr's hall az O'Clock
to which the public u invited.
The chorus Of u. c. whitney, spark
ling musical surprise. The Isle II Bong
Bong 4 claimed 20 b. the pretties'
and best singing. acting and dancing
cnorus ever organized. II Includes 4
doken little girls Of the famous sohiks
eBroilerr tgpe who are very much IN
evidence in the numerous dancing NUM-
bers. The company was rehearsed un'
der the personai management Of Gu
Sohiks. Mr. Whisneys general stag.
director -Tne islc 81 Bong Bong with
Cnas. A. Loder in the leading comedy
role comes 70 The opera house On ucx'
Thursday. December ;.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03
CHIlDRtWs Ions COATS.

At sos i a lot o. Heavy Scotch
Mixed Cloth Goats In sizes from 70 II
ycark Are made with high POLL collars.
finished with braid and buttons. They
are not sholdy cloth, bot a heavy
wool cloth. worth stbo.
AZ ss9s Is a lot Of Coats in variety
Il styles which vefe good values Al the
former prices. from s5as "a $50. Some
arr made with rloss roll collar, others
IN The college style with box hack and
coat collar. The cloths are a very heavy
al wool Scotch mixed yarn and viii
wear Ike iron. Colors. brown and grey
also a few In check cloths.
At s4.ss is q lot Of heavy All Wool
Mixed Cloth Coats. lined throughout
With a Venetian lining, making an extra
warm and sersiccable coat. Mostly the
college cut. Former price, $50.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03
Headed BY CHAS. D, LODER.
Cast and Chorus Of Seventy
Principally Pretty Girls

rIsI.el. !. ksadriel... Tus.day svsaIng.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03
A. P. ABBOTT & CO.
TALK OF THE TOWN.
nlnnL.t rale a vanrhanI..

Blanket sale at vsnghan's.
Earl S. Shepard buys raw fur and
sknnks' oil.
I'm Tying the Leaves So They Wont
Come DouuH-the hit Of the year-at
the Theatorinm.
Trade all YOU can during the first ten
DAYS Of December a. Neale & Knights
and save the discount.
A regular meeting Of Hearts Of Oak
lodge. No. Al. Order Sons Of s.. George,
will be held In Forcsters' ball Tuesday
night at Z o'clock sharp, followed BY a
social. A full attendance is requested.
Per order secretary.
The four-days-old child Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Barclay Of the West hill in
Barre Town died this morning and the
funeral was held az one o'clock this at
tcrnoon, with intermeut in Hope Gene
terry.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03
100 LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION

wANTED--A position By stonographer
with six years experience, has also knowledge
of bookkeeping. Address A, Times Of
Zee 22itf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03

FOR gALElAHorse harness and horse wax
on. Horse Il eight years old. weighs 1850
poudds il sound and a fine worker. viii sell
the horse alone IL desired. Price low. Inquire
az once at 80. Park Place, of Park street,
Barre, Vt s2itls
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03
MISSES AND CHIlDHfEs COATS.

Al soss IL . line Of oda Goats in
variety Of styles and kinds one q he
bss, values J. she popular College Coat.
Il 4 made o. an al WOOL sso;sA mixed
cloth. IN che brown. green AID grey mix
lures. Il i made he fal back. ~lsh
coat collar. and lined throughout VITA
a inc quality Venetian llning. Former
price vas slooo.
Al sass arc = few popular colisss
Coats. lined thrcouehous vita heavy
veursian liniug Cloth l. heavy al
wool goodA Former prize. 5000.
Al s7ss arr few Misses College
Coats, made Of an all wool dark mixed
cloth. lined Throughout with Venetian
lining. Ia an extra lne Coat for little
priee. Was si2.o0.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03

AT ss.ss are a few ODD Coats in mixed
goods that were $50 and $500 only
= few sizes Some are made with a
ripple back and a self-stfap over the
shoulder with wide collar. Others with
wide collar and trimmed with plain
broadclofh around the collar and cuns.
Are good style Coat.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03
Blankets and ComfOrters

This weather may remind you Of the need Of nice
warm Blanket Our line Of Blankets and Comfoners is
large possibly little too large AT any rate we have made
some special prices 10 reduce stock
lO4 Blankets At Soc ooc Use. sse. Ose ST. IS up to
2 so in white grey.
li-4 Blankets at oSc. si.2S. $50. LIS. as. 2sO
285, J. so up 10 $50.
PERRY CO CAMP.
Telephone "a. II and IS MAN Street. Barre. VI
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03
A. P ABBOTT & co. a. P ABBOTT & CO. a. p ABBOTT & co.
Daylight StoreA
WHAT IS OUR LOSS, IS YOUR GAIN.

We Chndrn and
We bought these garments which loss
sacrifice order
These best made the best styled Coats
nya few o O kind alike
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03

A performance and a production con-
cededly without a parallel in the history
Of musical comedy in America.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-03
CHILDRENs AND MISSES COATS.

AtNso isaios Of
Young LADIES' Long
Goats. made q a
heasy mixed cloth. 10
brown. sises ~ Is
and i years There
arr long. foll, ripple.
la K Coats 81 unus
nal worth rhese are
Coats which NJ put
out a. & special at
sST5.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-15

The very exorbitant prices which
the newspaper trust have been exact
ing for print paper has lead to the
matter being placed before President
Roosevelt, aud he is quoted as saying
that when he presented his message
to congress that 1t would contain a
strong paragraph recon- mending that
the tariff be removed, and that other
countries. notably Canada, be given
an opportunity to compete with the
trust. Canada has a large Supply OF
spruce That al be supplied in the
form Of pulp in this country and
thus reduce the price OF paper to a
large degree. American BUYERS have
hem TRYING to get hold of some OF
the forest lands with the idea Of
snipuillg the material over here, but
Canada will intelpose with a tariff,
but they would he willing to sell US
the raw material.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-15

/ Richmond P. Hobson, who first
sprung into notnrlety by sinking a
y unboat In the channel at Santiago
up che Spanish feet and
oben entered into such great popu.
s1arity with the young lady section Of
this country. later going back to
Alabama, where lie was elected as
ASc0nRressman from that state, Is
travelling over the country at the
apse1ent time on q lecture tour.
wherever Mr.. Robson is detained
SEk9a enough for . newspaper reporter
ne Get 10 him, he ILLS the reporter
. lot OF stuff about the
limited States having a var with
sS1alpsn. and evidently lie wants to
SAssosselis thing come tot head. Japan's
minister declares that there Is
13aSu1GDlahlng for these two countries to 90
SltsF about and indssthat In Ills
1xgsstfy there Is nothinp to indicate
Y "a tsse any ground for hostilities
aSInlglI,essMiln Hohsons doesn't feel
~ about. it and he seems
eornInsd 70 reuse the country to
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-15

Throughout the democratic camp OF
presidential possibilities the name
of Governor Johnson Of Minnesota
Is constantly brought out. and the
friends Of the governor In Minnesota
are not willing to concede that he
is In any way a weak candidate
providing that the president does not
come out. Under those circum-
stances the governors friends are Of
the opinion that he can afford to
wait four years. They believe that
he Is one Of the coming men Of the
country, and are not going to be
~disheartened In the least. They are
keeping a close watch on the move
ments of the gentleman who halls
from Lincoln, Neb.. and they do not
propose to let Mr.. Bryan work any
foxy {. move to the discredit OF Mr..
johnson.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-15

The limitations of 3 city council
10 declaring . building . nuisance
was shown In % action ct Water
town, where the council passed a
resolution declaring q grout build
10y was unsafe and that therefore II
Was q nuisance and should DO RACED
TO the ground. The owners of the
building appealed to the circuit
court, and the case resulted In the
decision of the court being that
the council had no power to declare
q structure q nuisance and raze 1t to
the ground. The court held that II
the front or q portion of the build
Ing was In danger Of falling out and
endangering the lives Of passersby,
then the building could be declared
a nuisance, and caused to be RACED
to the ground.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-15

After Canova had the experience
of having her bank robbed of . 5000,
other smaller towns Ia the state
got In readiness at once to give the
future yeeeman who can e their way
a warm reception AS Ion. as the
banks In the country + forced to
carry so much cash on hand they
have every reason to fear a visit
from the robbers. The small town
OF Hartford has formed sort of a
military company ard the men take
turns at night Watching for the
appearance Of the robbers. They
have arranged a code Of signals to
call out the re-iniorcements when
the case In necessary. Other towns
have taken the precaution of en-
ploying a night policeman. and many
OF tile towns have eve before
INDUCED in this luxury, but the
citizens cannot afford to part with so
much cash.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-15

William j. Bryan says with I'M
daunted freedom that nine-tenths of
the republicans of the country are
actually democrats. 1t must tAnta.
lie william to some extent when lie
reads the election. returns and finds
that his democratic friends are vot-
ing the republican ticket with great
regularity. His logic does not seem
to be taken with any seriousness or
there ought to be a change In the
vote In the past ten years. which is
about the time that MIR. Bryan has
been spreading his gospel over the
country.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-15

The insurgent press bureau Is at
work and has issued a long statement
with reference to the incident of the
pictures of Senator Kittredge being
torn down at Parker, which fact was
given to the public by a citizen Of
Parker who saw the pictures being
despoiled. No wonuer the Insurgents
would 20 to as great a length as to
suppress the fact when they have
learned how the sober.minded people
of the state look upon such an un-
called for action.