The border vidette., 1910-04-02
HERMOSILLO NOTES.
Items of Interest From Sonora's Beau
 tiful Capital City.
The land boom IS still on here.

Mark Wan1ess, the mining en- gineer and assayer. is out of the city, sampling some mines, for eastern capitalists.
 Captain William McGee, Los Angeles capitalist, arrived in the city Tuesday to visit his son Horace and family
 Dr. Bim Smith and Dr. J. c. Burton, Americans, have large, growing practice among the capi- tai city's wealthiest, best families
 R. R. Bailey X Company, deal CTS in land, are doing flourishing business. Mr. H. T. Weldon is the company's local manager, with offices in Hotel Arcadia.
 Harry Smith and Joe Polin are practicing up for series of games of tennis, to be played shortly at the Ramon Corral Plaza court, for the cham pionship of the state.
 Mrs. Alice Maurer, formerly of Bisbee, Arizona. is conducting the restaurant at Hotel Arca dia where unexcelled meals are served Sun day Easter dinner was a great least.
 At this season the city plaza is a thing of beauty ard joy for ever, especially appreciated by visi tors from the north, now sojourn- ing here, where the climate has southern Italy beat a mile, then some.
 Captain J. D. McCarIy, mining man and all-round good fellow, is a guest at the New Hotel Cohen, where he has made his headquart- CTS many years. The captain is hale and hearty and always ready to give strangers within our gates ;s warm welcome.
 The vocal and instrumental music in the Arcadia l,arlors East CT evening was exceptionally fine Mrs. Burdick graciously presided at the piano in most charming manner. Mir. Allan (Graphite Allan) acted as musical director, easily winning first prize.
 Horace McGee, formerly of the Sonora Auto Company, of Nogales, is doing a splendid business haul ing land buyers into the country An opposition firm recently ship ped in a number of big fiiers. All are kept busy and the rivalry be- tween the two garages is friendly
 The New Hotel Cohen, Cohen Bros. proprietors, is credit to this or any other city in the state, and is generously patronized. Recently more than fifty thousand dobies were expended in improving this old hostelry which Is personally managed by Barney Cohen Of course Max Marks is still here to give old friends the gla6 mitt
 MT. Robert Branagh, official dry farm expert for the Mexican gov state of Chihuahua, for the purpose of inspecting the great tracts of grazing and farming land between this city and the coast. Mir. Branagh is the man who success fully introduced dry farming on Colonel w. C. Greene's ranch near Cananea.
 Hotel Arcadia, l.. T. Bristol, manager, and w. J. Burdick, aesis- tant manager, continues popular with the travelling public. being daily crowded with guests seeking climate, land or mines. First class service. courteous treatment" is manager Brietol's motto. Cap | tam L. w Mix, of Mexico City, is ! president and principal owner of the Arcadia.
 On April 18th, William E. Bris- tol, manager of the telephone com pany, the street car company, the | mercantile company, etc, will leave for Germany via New York, on pleasure bent, expecting to be ab- sent several months. He will be accompanied by Mir. Brauer and family of Banco de Sonora. l.. T. Bristol will look after his brothers many business interests here.
 News has reached here to the effect that after April 24th, next, the great Mix Ryall mineral con- cession in this state will revert to the government and will be open for Announcement. This will be good news to many prospectors who will no doubt immediately hasten into the district heretofore covered by the big concession. George NJ. Ryall of New York and Captain l. w. Mix of this city and the cifV of Mexico had the Mix