Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-09

the Arizpe district on the north and west and the Ures and Sabuaripa dis tricts son the south, resembles, in out line, side view of a mans vest.
 Since every locality must be identi- fled with a water course of some im- portance, the first glance at the map reveals the existence of one of very remarkable character in this district. Right here is as good place as any to straighten out what is meant by the Yaqui river.
 Properly speaking, the Yaqui river never touches the Moctezuma district. That river rises in eastern Chihuahua. courses across the northern part of the Sahuaripa district, forms a june tion with the Bavispe near Suaqui de Batuc, and thence south.
 That which is called the Yaqui in this community is the Bayispe. rising just in the western edge of Chihuahua, coursing north to the east of the Lucky Tiger, turning westerly when near the north line of the district, doubling back south to the west of the Lucky Tiger, through Opanto and Granadas, joining the Yaqui, as stat ed in the northern part of the Sahuari- pa district, thus mention of a Yaqui river in this district is eminently in- correct. The name, however, does not make the river any more than it does the man. and the Bavispe, with its myriad of tributaries, along with the Nacodari, still further west, con tributes to form a map that suggests unquestionably the foremost mining fpfn s.. kha eta 1f
 Since under @ separate caption in this issue the Moctezuma district is accorded exclusive space to an extent and in a manner commensurate with it's importance no elaborate details will be attempted in this general re- view of the state of Sonora and its mineral subdivisions.
 A district rich in American antiqui- ties of every nature, distinguished for marvellous resources, blessed by na- ture in a measure which has no paral- Tel in any territory of corresponding extent on the continent, it only waited for the hour when foreign capital and enterprise should come to claim it. The advent of the Nacozari railroad, constructed by Phelps-Dodge was the signal for the great awakening.
 The Moetezuma Copper company with it's holdings near Nacozari, known locally as Placeritas, to distinguish it from Nacozari Viejo, six miles further south, is rapidly evolving the same wonderful transformation in that ris- trict that the G. c. C. c. did in Cana nea. It broke the ice, as it were, burned the barriers away and the stream of enterprise has increased from that hour. It has a distinguished advantage over some of it's sister dis tricts in the fact that it's mines are not confined to one local section, but are distributed abundantly, practically over every square league in the dis trict.
 With the great Pilares at Nacozari as a nucleus, districts, subdistricts, minerals" and private propositions Tadiate away in superb order to the uttermost confines of the subdivision in contemplation.
 The future of the Moctezuma dis trict is incomparable. The calcula- tions and facts upon which that bril- Hans and unfailing future is based, it would require volumes to exhibit. Our excellent commercial relations with the Moctezuma district, the great state of Sonora, and the rising repub- lie to the south, budding forth as they are in industrial expansion, rare and exuberant, should be cordially main tained by every means which justice and national honor can recognize and concede.