The border vidette., 1908-08-22

freight and passenger traffic Of the
 line to Zorriilo.
 There were four passenger coaches
 and two box cars in the first train,
 which was pulled by mammoth
 locomotive driven by Engineer Tulley5
 Dad" A. J. Wamsley was the con- ductor in charge, and Trainmaster J. G. Lindsay went along to help herd the "bunch" of happy excursionists.
 who were too numerous to mention all the cars were full, and then some it being safe to estimate the bunch at 400.
 Professor Soto's orchestra went along and there was music all the way to Santa Crnz. the quaint little village of about 500 inha bitants. which is possi- biy as old if not older than Tubac, or Tucson, which claims to be the oldest town in the United States
 The trip to Santa Cruz. through the great Buena Vista and Santa Barbara ranches of Mexican Consul M. Mas carenas. and the beautiful ranches of Don Epitacio Paredes. treasurer of Nogales. Sonora. and Antonio Mar tirez, prefecto of the Magdalena dis trict, was greatly enjoyed by the happy excursionists, all of whom were loud in their praise of the beauty of the coun- try and the richness of the soil, the whole valley having the appearance of vast garden.
 The first train was met at Santa Cruz by Presidente U. Barreda, and other prominent citizens, who escorted the visitors to the "Palacio," where 6 0rapd y,r,t,l1., raoonfior, a1oc batd d,.;.,r~ the visitors stay in the little town the Presidente.
 In the afternoon there was music and dancing in the "Palacio" and a baseball game between the Nogales Reds and Nogales Nationals, the first ever witnessed in the old town. The Reds won, the score being to 6.
 The trip home was made in safety, the first train over the Nogales- Ga nanea road, arrived in Nogales about half past seven in the evening.
 The work on the last sixty kilomet- CTS is being pushed with large force of men. Seventy carloads of rails, thirty five of which are now in the local yards, are being rushed to the front, and it is now only a matter of g. couple of months when the entire line will be completed to Del Rio, and placed in operation between Nogales and Cananea.
 Passengers on the daily trains from Nogales to Cananea, when they reach the present terminus of the line, find there a frst-class stage which is owned by Bull Con Campbell, who guarantees for the small sum of SS. to land them in the great copper camp in SIX hours.
 Every train that has left Nogales this week, for Zorrillo, has carried many passengers, and already there is to give the travelling public better service.
 For years the only access Sonora has Lad to Cananeai has been by way of the long trip to Benson and thence back by way of Naco. This has been a long, tedious and expensive trip and has retarded the growth of much Of the acreage of that country. With direct access from Nogales, all of outhwestern Sonora will be in direct with the city Of Caranea.
 It will mean the making of many of the smaller towns along the border. as they will become shipping and dis tributIng points for the trade of Can anea and the contiguous territory. No- gales in particular will profit by it. as thousand of dollars worth of business will pass through here, which bad rail road facilities has heretofore diverted to points to the east and the north.