Bisbee daily review., 1909-12-01
STOCK MARKETS, RAILROADS, FINANCIAL AND MINING
GIGANTIC ENTERPRISES PROMISE
 EMPIRE FUR MEXICAN COAST
LACE WORK OF STEEL HAVE
 BEEN SEPARATED DISTANCE BEFORE STEAM INTERVIEWED

com bined seacoast line of about HOO miles. Within the next five years they will show a growth and develop ment as great as that of California during the first twenty-five years of its existence as an American state
 The lines of the Southern Pacific Railroad company of Mexico, complet- ed and under construction. will com pose a system of 17S5 miles. The main line from Nogales to Guadalajara Viii be about HOO miles in length. There are numerous branches from this main line-one os t;se most important O. which diverges at the crossing of ths Yaqui river, sixty-nine. miles south east of Guaymas. and follows the Ya- qui, Bayispe and San Bernardino riy- CTS to the international boundary line at Douglas, Ariz The length of this branch will be about three hundred and ninety miles. It penetrates the characterized as the mineral store house of the world" Its development
 heretofore has been retarded by abso- lute lack of transportation facilities,
 and the presence therein of bands of
 Yaqui Indians The railroad will now furnish the needed transportation fa- cilities, and our past experience teach
 es that Indians are never a menace after the coming of the railroad. In fact, since the railroad has been un- der construction, the Yaquis have
 ceased to be hostile.
 Another important branch is that from Nogales to Cananea, now com
 pleted, and which connects Los An
 geles directly with the mines at Ca
 nanea, conceded to be one of the
 greatest copper mines in the South
 west
 On the 18th of April, this year, the late General Francisco Canedo, Gov lernor of the state of Sinaloa, drove
 the last spike in the completion of the
 main line as far south as the city of
 Mazatlan. This was as important an
 event in the development of the west coast of Mexico as the memorable
 driving by the late Senator Stanford
 of the golden spike on the Central
 Pacific, which completed the first
 transcontinental connection between New York and San Francisco. The
 road is at present completed to a point
 about 125 miles to the south of Mazat Ian. Construction of the line is now in progress from this point south, and
 also from Guadalajara north, and tht
 work at each end is being pushed tC
 completion with all possible dispatch The gap between the two ends nov being constructed is about two hun , dred miles. When this is closed i . will mark an epoch in the building l of railroads in North America. It. , completion will establish a direct ant , continuous route connecting the Cit, of Mexico, Guadalajara and other i'm
 portant points in the Republic of Mex ico with Los Angeles. San Francisco l the ports of Puget Sound and Britisl ! Columbia. It will make possible l continuous train service of more thai : $500 miles, the longest north and soutl / line in America, and until the Cape } to-Cairo line is built (if it ever is? , the longest in the world.
 - Although Sonora, SinaIoa, Topic an X Jalisco have the immense area of 15; : 0C0 square miles, their combined poI e ulation at present is only about l, 1,S00 f 900 people.
 $ The lands along the coast are al ,- practically level and very fertile, e: t pecially along the valleys of the man |, rivers, which flow down from the Siei Il "a Madre Mountains in their course t q the ocean. Their fertility and produ' F. tivity make them capable of sustain !. ing dense population. These river a carry a large volume of water, and a l. the lands along the valleys are leve f they afford opportunities for irrig; g tion superior to those of any othe f. portion of America. In Sonora ar e found the Yaqui, Sonora and May S rivers. In Sinaloa, the Fuerte, Moe |. rito. Sinaloa, Culiacan, San Lorenzt D Elota, Presidio, Rosario, Las Cana t and several others In Topic, the Ac; !, poneta, San Francisco, Rosa Morad; l. San Pedro and Santiago. The land s along the valley of the Acaponet; 9 San Pedro and Santiago rivers ar c the most productive of any in Anne ,- ica, and probably are unequalled fo C their fertility by any in the world, e1 e cept those of the Delta of the Nil Y The soil is an alluvial deposit of gres !, depth caused by the overflow of thes
 rivers during the summer season, an a Gpon many of these lands two croI
 year may be grown without irrigi = ton. These are known as "humi