The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1908-03-12
COLONEL JONES RETURNS.
After an Extended Visit Throughout
Mexico Is FavOrabIy Impressed
With Our Sister Republic.

Will Uui SiSlSI hCpuDltS.
Col. Wylie 3. Jones returned last
week from an extended trip to Sina-
loa, and other places in Mexico. In
an interview with Mr.. Jones, con-
corning his trip, he had the following
to say:
''The city of Hermosillo, the CAPT
tai of the state of Sonora, is in a
beautiful agricultural valley, and has
a population of over 10000. Quay
mas, on the Gulf OF California, 260
miles south of Nogales, has a popula-
ton of about $4,000, and does much
business. The railroad has laid out
the townsite of Empalme, on the bay,
about five miles before we reach
Guaymas, and it is destined to be-
come an important point.
Leaving Guaymas and Empalme
in the morning, we proceed south
east, into the beautiful Yaqui valley,
which greatly resembles the ella val
ley in character of soil and the
growth covering the ground. The
railroad, building southwark through
that country from Guaymas to Mazat-
Ian, is known as the Cananea Yaqui
River & Pacific, and is one of the
Randolph lines, to which the G. v, G.
& N. belongs. The road crosses the
Yaqui and Mayo rivers, in Sonora,
and proceeds southwark into the
state of Sinaloa, the best watered
state in Mexico, crosses eight other
rivers, flowing through beautiful val
legs from the Sierra Madras to the
Gulf, before reaching Mazatlan, on
the seacoast in the southern part of
the state of Sinaloa..
"Culiacan is the capital of the
state of Sinaloa, and has population
of over 1900. 1t is very interest
ing city. Through a letter of intro
duction from Hon. Arturo Elias,
Mexican consul at Tucson, Arizona,
had a decidedly pleasant visit with
Senior General Don Francisco Canedo,
the governor of Sinaloa, and found
him to be a most agreeable and in
teresting gentleman, and certainly
quite an able man. My brief stay
did not permit me to accept the
courtesy of an invitation from him
to pay a visit to his vast estates lying
north OF the city of Culiacan.
ST was particularly impressed with
the Culiacan valley, as it is where
the capitol is located, and the new
railroad will there cross another rail
road now operating between Culiacan
and Altata, the seaport where all
vessels touch northward and south
ward. The Randolph line is expected
to reach Culiacan by the 4th of July,
as great efforts are being made to
reach there before the rainy season
sets in, which is about that time.
The state of Sinaloa has several very
important sugar refineries, one
located on the railroad about twenty
miles west of Culiacan. Everything
can be grown there that can be grown
in Arizona, and many additional semi
tropical plants, including cotton,
bananas, pineapples, tobacco and
oranges.
ST made the trip for myself and
others, merely with view of in
speeding the country. No one ex-
poets to find more productive coun-
try than the ella valley, but the
states of Sonora and Sinaloa GER
tainly offer great inducements to
persons of small means, and L GER
tainly predict a very rapid develop
ment of that section and a vast in
crease in its material wealth. Many
Americans are going in there now
daily" Stafford Journal.