The border vidette., 1909-06-26
NOGALES.
The City with a Future -:-by Katherine Fall Pettey in the Arizona Daily Star.

Roosevelt has interested himself with a simplified form of spelling and it Is a decided pity that some one whose voice is not far reaching should not con- stantly add to the English vocabulary of words of encomium. Such Btereo- typed phrases as "treasure house," the "wealth of the Iucas," etc., etc., hav- ing been exausted long ago in describ- ing Nogales-the gate way city of the West .Ooast-Nogales Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora. These towns are one, except for the invisible dividing line and they represent today, in em- bryo form. cities of future more mar vicious in wealth and opportunities than ever have been known on the American continent.
 The countries adj ,cent to Nogales would make this so, without the un- deniable richness that exists immedi- ately in the vicinity of these sister cities, and which is represented, though not yet exploited, in an ex- haustive manner in the mines extant in the Pata. onia and Santa Rita mountains. Aside from these out lying interests, both Nogales towns are growing of their own accord, because of their advantageous situation; be- cause of the many mining properties fn every direction, closing the town in with circle of geld, silver and copper. These two places have been and will be, of necessity, the base of supplies for all the rich agriculturial land own CTS and the marked for their products. with which the Yaqui River valley is inning to be filled; because of the rich Santa Cruz. valley. the products of which are incomparable considering the short time devoted to interests aside from mining; and because there is strength in unity and these two pro gressive towns stand shoulder to shoul der with Presldent Taft on one side and President Diaz on the other, men possessed of breadth of mind and vivid personality, far sighted men, imper- sonally loJ al to their country's, realiz ing as they do the immense value. one country to the other of united benefits
 The climate of Nogales is unsurpass ed the world over. Nights of delicious coolness follow days of perpetual sun shine. The conjunctio of sunlis $ ht and shadow is marked by refreshing coolness immediately upon entering the shelter of trees and houses and the altitude is sufficiently high to brin g forth all the energy latent in those for whom the word s'desert country" have had their terrors of slothfuIness and inertia.
 Nogales. Arizona, and Nogales, So- nora. lie like gems of beauty within their setting of gold and copper and silver and the Santa Cruz valley com prising sixty thousand acres of richest soil, runs the chromatic scale of colors with its green alfalfa, it's ripe barley, the blue of its mountains and the brown of it's foothills over which the haze of the short twilight fingers with exquis- ite mystery.
 Nogales is the outftting point for prospectors bound on their quest for gold; and the need of every traveller is supplied by the pig mercantile estab- lishnents, be the need a Paris gown or pick and shovel. The various up to- date hotels are filled constantly with men representing huge interests in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa and it is safe to say that no streets in the world have been trod by so many capi talists, railroad magnates, copper kings. P, timber lords and barons of cattle land, with conservative agriculturalists as these two border towns.
 The city of Nogales, Arizona, pre- destined to outrival any gateway town in the world, is substantially built of brick, stone and cool adobe houses and the courthouse. schools, hotels, shops and churches bespeak the faith the