Bisbee daily review., 1909-12-01

OmpaFtVely lew or your pSOp-S are aware of the significance of the future growth and prosperity of Los Angeles in the gigantic enterprise now nearing completion. having for it's ob- feet the construction of main line Of railroad and various branches along the West Coast of Mexico by the Southern Pacific Railroad company Ca Hartman corporation). which will connect and make directly tributary to your city an empire wonderfully en- dowed by nature with all the elements of wealth The gateway to this em- pire is the little city of Nogales, Ariz. It is a trifle more than five hundred miles away from oLs Angeles by way of the new line from Tucson to Gala basas, now being constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad company. This point is but little farther distant to the southeast of Los Angeles than Los Angeles IS south from San Fran cisco. The steel rails of this great highway will bring to the very thres- hold of Los Angeles a fair and fruit full land heretofore isolated, and win develop an immense volume of busi- ness in a new field for your mer- chants and business men, if they will but stretch out their hands to grasp it.
 The main line of the railroad enters the state of Sonora at Nogales and runs thence south to the port of Quay mas on the Gulf of California. thence southeasterly, skirting the coast line through the entire states of Sonora, Sinaloa. the territory Of Topic. and through the state of Jalisco, as far as the city of Guadalajara, where a connection will be made with the Ma tional Railway of Mexico with the City of Mexico This region was one of the first on the American conti- nent to be settled by Europeans. It was from this section that the famous expedition of Coronado started in 1889 in search of the Seven Cities i of Cebola," in which search he passed through what is now Arizona and New Mexico A detachment from this ex- petition under Alvarado came up the
 Cuff of California and discovered the
 mouth of the Colorado River in 1540,
 and also penetrated at that time what
 is now a portion of Southern Califor mia. While it is one of the oldest
 sections in America in point of settle
 ment by Europeans, 1t was also one
 of the most primitive in point of de velopment by reason of it's isolation and lack of modern methods of com munication, until the lines of the Sou
 thern Pacific Railroad company O
 Mexico were constructed. It may b. : said that the states of Sonora, Sina ! loa, the northern part of Jalisco, anC all of the territory of Topic, in tht
 matter of material development, hav'
 scarcely yet reached the point attain l ed by California in the early fifties . Their future development will proceed k with much more rapid pace than dit !; California in the first quarter of n century after the discovery of golt l. and the influx of the famous forty n miners" California was then isolai f ed from the world and remained s , for many years afterwards. To reacl :. it from the centers of population ir n volved an expensive journey of si
 weeks via Panama, or a six months i. tedious and perilous tramp across tn .s continent, in which the sufferings c
 passing through the desert region
 were unavoidable. With the compl,
 tion of the lines of the West Goa: a route, the states of Sonora, Sinalo. a. Jalisco and territory of Topic, vi a- possess one of the most perfect an ,t complete modern systems of transpo V tation and communication in Americ: .s The line is already completed to Is point about 800 miles south of the il
 ternational boundary line. and all (
 this immense and fertile territory
 today within foTty-eight hours jou
 Iney from Los Angeles, and may !
 seen at 2 comparatively small eos from the windows of a Pullman ca ,; Through daily train service froi n Los Angeles to Mazatlan, which is z d. the mouth of the Gulf of California rs that of the entire state of California
 lines make tributary to Los Angelo T. i53. GOO square miles. an area equal Q 33,0 900 square miles; Jalisco, 31,75 s, square miles; and the territory of T. Q pic, 1,250 square miles, making1 tl
 total area of the states which thes
 has been operation for more than si n area of 77,Ooo square miles; sinalo s months.
 These four Mexican states have