The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-01-14
DR.. ALVAREZ
TELLS Of MEXICO

Dr. Alvarez, for many years a resi-
dent of Honolulu, and even at present
the accredited Spanish Consul to Ha-
vail, returned last Tuesday after an
absence of four or five years spent at
Cananea. State of Sonora, Mexico. For
two years he was a physician there
in the hospital maintained by the Ca
nanea Copper Company, but since
then he has been engaged in an ex-
tensive private practise.
my practise" he said, II left in
charge of my son, DR.. Walter Alvarez,
last November. and he has been doing
very we'll He is a graduate of Cooper
Medical College, and married Miss
Smyth, the daughter of the Rev.
George Smyth. a Methodist minister
of Berkeley. She is a graduate of the
University of California. He has a
large circle of acquaintance here. His
practise is largely among Mexicans, so
that he has learned the language
pretty thoroughly.
DIR w. ]. Galbraith, who formerly
practised here and was at the head of
the hospital in Cananea, is now the
private physician for Col w. c.
Greene. formerly at the head of the
Cananea Copper Company. They are
now in Los Angeles, but they spend
most Of their time travelling.
John s. Clark. for several years in
drug stores in Honolulu. is the drug
gist at the hospital in Cananea.
"Cananea is at an elevation of $500
feet above sea level. in a superb eli
he All
iona line and right in the same cop
per region that has been working for
SO long and so profitably at Bisbee.
Arizona. The mining company en-
ploys about 1000 persons, and produces
about 100 tons of matte. a day. The
mine is now controlled by Thomas
RYAN, the man who owns the Equi-
table Insurance Company and who has
figured so extensively in high finance
Of late. Col. W. c. Greene was for
merly in control. He is still president
Of the Greene Gold and Silver Mining
Company of Chihuahua, which owns
about a million acres of land there
He is also president of the Greene Grid
Company. owning a placer mine cap
italized at S5.OOO,O 600. in Sonora.
The region around Cananee offers
few opportunities, except that a man
can always get employment in the
mine. But the southern part of the
state of Sonora, in the Yaqui Riveril
Valley, offers great opportunities for
tropical agriculture. The land is rich
ct than it is anywhere else in the
world except in the delta of the Nile. |
Mexico is making great progress.
Porfirio Diaz is wonderful ruler. |
When the material he has had to work /
with is considered, the results are mar
vellous. Life and property are safer
N Mexico than they are in the United !
States. Public education is constantly !
being improved, and the effort is be-
ng made 10 establish agricultural
schools, and to develop agriculture.
Mexico is more backward in agricul-
-ure than in anything else. Generally
speaking the pillow of Mexico is still
4 forked stick with an iron point, and
he ground is merely scratched instead
IF being plowed.
In Cananea, have built two hotels,
me of adobe. and the other of brick.
The latter is the best hotel in the
place. Adobe structure is very COM
non and is in many ways admirable.
Z plasteTed it VIII last for ages in that
Innate. The plaster used is what is
allied Douglass cement, which is not
cement at all but is a gypsum which
erves as an excellent substitute for
,laster.
L arrived here on the Siberia just
wenty years TO a day from the time
arrived in Honolulu for the first time l,
bandoned this as my residence, and
I'm still the Spanish Consul accredited
ere. I have considerable property
Thich 1 feel that ought to look after,
nd so 1 expect to remain here for a
ear at least" "