The border vidette., 1911-10-07
A BIG LAND DEAL.
Sonora Valley Land Company Buys More Than 5O,OOO
 Acres.

portance to this section was
 consummated this week wher
 the Sonora Valley Land Com
 pany, through H. A. Smith and
 A. M Conard, purchased from
 Don Leon Serna his great tract
 of farming land known as Gu
 marc" situated in the Magdalena
 district, Sonora, Mexico, about
 ninety miles south of Nogales,
 the gate way to the West Coast
 of Mexico.
 F. H. Hilliker, president, and
 w. M. Hunter, vice president of the company, with their asso-
 ciate, Mr. C. M. Welsford of San
 Antonio, Texas, who by the way | is one of the best known, most
 expert landmen in either Mexico
 or the United States, have been
 here some time for the purpose
 of examining titles, etc., and the forepart of the week the deal
 which means much for the Mag
 dalena district, the state of So- nora, and NOgaleS, was closed and the work of sub dividing for colonization purposes, will be commenced at once, and the land placed on the market at reas ohable prices.
 There are more than fifty thousand acres of ideal farming land in the tract upon which wheat, corn, cotton, alfalfa, etc. can be raised, much without irrigation. The company has also contracted for 10000 acres more land adjourning their re- cent purchase.
 This season some of the land yielded forty three bushels of wheat to the acre, this without | irrig ation or cultivation.
 It is said that for the past | fifty years there has been no | rust in the wheat fields of the district, where cattle are always free from tick. With cultivation, the land yield crops of wheat, corn, alfalfa and cotton the equal of any land on earth. Luscious water melons and cantalOupeS are grown on the land without irrigation or cultivation, al- though it is believed artesian water could be developed at small expense.
 The low lands are underlaid with a heavy strata of water, as proven by a number of wells on 5he property only forty feet leep, with a permanent stand of rom twelve to fifteen feet of eX- ,ellent water in the wells. Al kali, so injurious to many ag1i- cultural sections in the United States, is unknown here where frosts were never heard of by : he oldest inha bitant.
 The climate is ideal the year 'ound in the beautiful Mazda ena valley, where the Southern ( Pacific Railroad of Mexico pas es for many miles through the Sonora Land Company's land on ts way to the City of Mexico. )n account of it's close proximity : o the United States, and within asy reach of markets for all t turf grown, the land is greatly ( nhanced in value. l
 MT. Hilliker and his associates Ie 6tSIIDdSUCIS III Cllc ., 'usiness, having already dis [ 'osed of a quarter million acres .. f Sonora land. They are thoroughly reliable in every :. as all who have had | ealings with them in the past, an attest. Their big tract of l and soon to be Sub-divided and ffered for sale, cannot be ex- I elled in any country, and THE ( BORDER VIDETTE expects soon I 0 see a great colony of Amer | cans happily located at and U ear Noria, in the vicinity of 7hich town there are many | aluable mining properties in luding the Sonora Copper ( Company, the Sonora 1 'acific Mining Company, the ! .a Cobriza Mining Company, ( nd the Cabrillo Mining Com l any. |