Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-02
GROWTH OF SONORA.


 for our neighboring state of Sonora in Mexico during the next few years will bring wonderful growth to that section of the sister republic. Accord ing to the statistics sent out by the Mexican government the state of So- nora yielded last year s35,OOO,OO0 in products. It is known that the mineral country in this stae has as yet only been barely scratched and that with few more years of develop ment this product will be increased to many times that of last year.
 The mineral product of last year in Sonora came mostly from Cananea and Nacozari where the Phelps-Dodge company and the Greene company have put in operation immense copper reduction works. but the Cananea and Nacozari districts do not by any means contain all the copper in the state of Sonora. There are many osh- CT districts in the state which give promise to equal these copper dhs- tricts when they have been fully de- veloped.
 South of Douglas is a splendid min eral country which, with the develop ment of the last few years, has shown up excellent results in copper, gold, silver and lead Below Moctezuma in the vicinity of Saqui there are some excellent properties on which develop ment has been most encouraging but which have been held back as produc- CTS because of the long distance from railroad transportation. Around Cum pas there has been much activity dur ing the past year and the Transyaal Copper company has put smelter in  operation which has been successful ly running for year. In this vicinity the Relep Copper company is also op- erating and during the past year has shipped great deal of high grade cop per. Both these companies own large tracts of mineral land and the com pletion of the railroad to Cumpas will put men to work developing many oth- CT promising prospects.
 The gold and silver camps tributary ; to Douglas are the Fl Tigre, the Fl Globo, the Roy and many others of lesser importance. In the Tabotacaohi district several properties have been shipping ore during the past year and the most of this ore is a very high grade silver. A large amount of de- Velopment work is being done here and the outlook for marvelously rich district is most excellent. Recently the Tabotacachi mine sent carload of ore to the smelter in this city which brought more than 32o.oO0.
 Besides these there is the Monte Wis to district where development work has been accompanied by the most satisfactory results during the past year and where it is now planned to have reduction works in operation be fore another twelve months have passed. On the Monte Yisto mine more than four thousand feet of de velopment work has been done and enormous bodies of milling ore have been blocked out and is now ready for mill, which is planned to be in stalled during the present year.
 In the Tordillo district there are splendid lodges of copper bearing rock which those who have become ac quainted with that section declare give promise of district equal to any in the state. Here there are large mum Der of holdings. but active work has not been going on recently. It is now promised that important work will commence there during the next few weeks or months at most.
 In the Santa Rosa district copper has been found in most promising for. nations and at the present time the Santa Rosa mine is under development on bond with more than fifty men at work. Recently 1t was visited by General Manager Ricketts of the Can. anea district. In that vicinity last winter representatives of the oAIumet and Arizona company made dsrpunoe- ment- of a. large smoant 0s mineral