Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-06
MANY LAND
 SALES MADE
 IN CUL|ACAN
American investors Are Snap ping Up All Land Offered There And Many More Are Willing to Buy

CULIACAN. Sin. Mex, April 5.-A large number of important land sales have been made to American invest DTS within the past week. and a mum. Der of others are now pending. In fact, the movement for acricultural lands has assumed proportions verg- ing upon boom. and an examination of tho official map of the valley Tn this immediate vicinity discloses the surprising fact that a large majority of holdings on one side of the river belong to or are controlled by Amer ican investors.
 There are just now eight of the principal river valleys of Sinaloa at tracting the attention of investors. and they are the valleys of the Fuer- te, Sinaloa, Mocarito, Culiacan. San Lorenzo, Elota. Hlaxtla and MaZatlan, with the Culiacan valley easily lead ing for the number of sales recorded The valley lands of Siualca are much al ke. with the differences of climate to be expected in a distance of 3I5 miles from north to south, and the usual climatic changes caused by altitude. as the land rises rapidly from the coast 10 the east.
 Profitable oarbsnzo.
 In the mountain districts, at higher attitudes. wheat and like grains are grown, wh le lower down corn. beans and garbanzo (chick peas) are the principal money makers for the farm CTS. All Spanish countries demand the garbanzo. and buyers from Spain make regular visits to Sinaloa to ac- Quire the crops. The growing of the garbanzo is very profitable.
 Bananas, oranges, cOcoanuts. man gcs, dates. etc, are grown in profus- ion and to the greatest perfection. but never yet in Quant ties sufficient to ssappiy the home demand. One grower ef inc mango. near Cu1iacan. has re- peatediy refused to box and ship his fruit because his grove was bringing him 2000 pesos an acre, on the home market, which Is 5000 gold.
 Six Alfalfa Crops.
 Alfalfa is another great paying crop. Contractors are now around offering Co giv efrom s36 (Mex.) up to any amount The irrigated land gives six crops of alfalfa with an average said to be better than 1-2 tons to the acre It brought $40 ton all this win ter, if there is any winter here.
 One crop being always assured by the regular rains. real enterprising" farmers have irrigared and raised crops all the year. It is all growing season. If you have water to put on the land.
 Sugar land is in demand also. as the several factories in the state are trying to meet an increased demand from all over the republic.
 At the present time there is very little public land to be had in the state of Sinaloa, as 1t has all been taken up CT put under opt on by eager land seekers. The day of cheap land has gone by, and buyers are now pay ing from s to s10. gold, for their acreage. The public land laws of Mexico are very liberal. but even at that land taken up by settlers in the state of Sinaloa, counting all costs, has gone considerably over s1.00 an acre gold. The surveying is an expen' sive thing, as a judge accompanies the surveyor and the owners and be certifies to each setting of the instru- ment and to each measurement.
 Ho Defective Titles.
 Under the laws governing land transfers here it is almost Impossible for a man to acquire a defective title without knowing it, and in all land transact 'ons where fraud has deyel oped it has been from other cause: than defective titles. Tn another state a number of Americans recently ac Quired a few hundred thousand acre of rocky, undesirable land, whicf they have sold to eastern people fol farms, but the title is probably al right. Nearly all the buyers bough without seeing the land and now wan their money back.
 Taxation on raw land is little o moth 'ng. but the system is snTnHthin' like the American system Of taxing man for being industrious, and in thi state it finally gets 10 be as high. O. some kinds of land and improvement as IS pesos on the thou7snd. but th valuation is on a system which mako the tax a very srnali matter. after al You can nay taxes three tioaes 8 veal FnsI-'no fbe rav~lanfs small.
 There is a strono dernard for pava oranpes. and any other kind and tboS experimerting with the naval can ge fancy prices California growers ar looking over the ero1nd with the II tepiIon of putting out groves of nav' toraDees.
 Raiiroad To Be Pesdv Soon.
 It Is now believed that the ra'lroa line between here and Na7atian vi he onened LID for passenger an freight traf7c abo1t April %. At ore ent it s almost impossible to get oy he line at all.
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