El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-29
SINALOA RURALES
PUT OUT Of SERVICE
New HarbOr Plan For Ma
zatlan Approved; VIII
Make Great Port.

Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mex. July 25.-(By
Mail)-The $50 corps of rurales was
d1sbanded yesterday, its commander,
Col. Limo Cardenas, and all the inferior
officers being placed under arrest and
subject to cOurtmartiaL An effort was
made to absorb all the rank ma file
into the second and 10th rural corps,
out some of them objected so vOcifer-
OuSIy that they were dlSarmed and re-
leased The officials are maintaining
reserve as to the motives OF the i'm
prisOnment of the officers and the
wiping out of the command, but the
public has it that 1t is due to a re-
tusal to obey an order to march to
Sonora and enter the campaign against
OrOzco- This command had borne the
brunt of the fighting in SinalOa and
lost many men, several detachments
Of 1t being cut to pieces by the rebels,
as at NayOlatO, San IgnaciO and Pa
nucO. Recently it protested against
being sent to garrison PanucO. after
that point had been retaken the second
time from the rebels, but finally went
there, and just reached AIazatlan a few
days ago on the order to proceed to
Sonora
The I4th battalion of federals. which
is divided between Topic and SinalOa.
has been notified that hereafter its
pay viii be that of the peace footing
instead of the higher pay that il has
enjoyed for while on account Of field
service against the rebels.
The MaZatlan customs office has been
notified that effective midnight of
aug 81 all import duties Will De IN
creased five percent
HarbOr Plan Approved.
The department of the interior has
approved the plans for the harbOr i'm
PrOvements, which are to be in the
bay TO the east of the light house is
land and the peninsula which forms
the south end of the city. This bay eN-
tends back along the south and east
side of the city to the Southern Pacific
rOundhOuSe and station of Urias. and
with a breakWater to protect its en-
trance it can be made perfectly safe,
and whatever anchorage is desired
can be secured by dredging, the inner
bay extending about Is miles down
the coast behind Organ island.
City property has advanced more
than 500 percent in value since the
Southern Pacific railroad came into
SinalOa, but local business is not as
good as it was before Culiacan and in
land points that formerly traded large
" through MaZatlan now receives
goods directly by Fail and the big Ger
man houses which had accumulated
vast fortunes during the so odd years
of monopoly enjoyed by them are go
ing out of business.
Much interest is felt in the railroad
that is coming from Durango, which
is almost due east of MaZatlan, TO con-
meet up with the National railroad
lines. As the crow flies the distance
is only $50 miles, but to secure the two
percent grade, which was the maximum
given the locating engineers, almost
twice that distance Will have TO be
covered Thirty-five miles of this
line are now in operation out of Du-
range, to Rio Chico, where a 700 foot
steel bridge is spanning the gorge,
whic his 900 feet deep.
Another 20 miles of grade is ready
for the steel and as soon as the bridge
is completed track viii be laid on
this. to LlanO Grande. Seventy-five
pound steel is being used and high
grade of construction is maintained.
This road viii be one of the great en-
cheering feats of modern railrOading
and will reveal many points of scenic
grandeur From LlanO Grande to the
crest of the Sierras which will be ne
gotiated at an altitude of approximate
" $500 feet the road will have a
steady, circuitOUs climb. but the two
per cent grade viii be maintained
throughout. The Pacific slope is so
precipitous that it was a first thought
to be impracticable to construct the
road at this grade. but after many
surveys it was worked out About
seven miles of tunnel Will be required.
At one point the road viii follow a
hOgbacS only a few feet in width and
several hundred yards in length, which
has a PERCEPTIONS drop on either side
OF more than 1000 feet. At another
point the road will wind about for 3
miles and return to within two and
One-half miles of the starting point.
There are several instances in which
the road describes complete circles and
tunnels underneath the former track.
IL is estimated that the cost Of the
completed railroad from LlanO Grande
to Mazatlan viii be S12O00,00O to Sl5.-
GOO, 600 and that six or seven years VIII
be required for its COmpl elton.