The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-03-02

Some of the American-Owned mine
and plantation homes are models of
tropical comfort, spacious and elegant.
Motoring tennis, golf, pleasure
launches and the west coasts incor-
parable hunting grounds are enjoyed
the year around
For shooting and fishing, the Quay
mas coast waters are unexcelled,
Trolling for toro, skip-jacks, Spanish
mackerel, yellowtail, Cabrillo, and 9th
err fighting fish affords unparalleled
sport.
Ducks? By the thousand For the
west coast is right on one of the great
wild fowl migration routes. Last
March in the Yaqui valley, standing in
flooded rice field, l got % "red-
heads" in less than an hour, working
my 16-gauge as the evening flight came
| in.
Here is this worlds happy hunting
ground for those who love the rod and
gun. Some day-when it's charms are
known to tourists-Guaymas must be-
come a famed winter resort, balmy,
healthful and healing, garden spot of
soft breezes, blue seas and ideal jan
uary outdoor days.
At Aqua Fria Ranch, In Sonora, the
Americans keep a professional lion
hunter, with pack of trained dogs.
Unless their prowling raids were re-
sisted, the lions and spotted tigers"
would soon overrun the ranches. Last
year the lion-slayer on the ranch just
named killed over SO wild beasts, in
Guiding lions, tigers and wild cats.
Singular Plant Life. g.
Even in vegetation this is land of
odd contrasts. Weird and sinister
looking plants there are, like the
strange Creeping cactus" of the Mag
dalena bay country. Lying fiat and
oddly resembling giant caterpillars,
this singular cactus grows forward and
dies behind, thus actually travelling in
the course of time considerable dis
lance Mr. E. w. Nelson of the United
States department of agriculture said
after exploring the north section OF
the west coast: Here is the most ex-
traordinary desert flora in the world
The combinations of species were won
derfully picturesque, giving the land
scape an individuality unlike anything
to be found elsewhere. Many of these
strange scenes seemed fit abiding
places for the animal life of an earlier
age"
From such inhospitable wastes, thu
! in n no fron Mt
tered coastal plain is a welcom,
change. Here is cane, corn, rice, fruit
wheat beans, melons, garbanzos-th
food of millions.
Down this historic West coast from
st. Xavier and Tucumcari in Arizon;
to Guadalajara, there stretches
string Of picturesque massive oil,
churches-churches built by adventur
: Gus Jesuits, churches standing in loop
: holed compounds for Indian defense
; Inside cisterns stored water for us
during sieges. The thrifty padre
{ grew their own grain, vegetables an
e fruit, using Indian labor. Near som
9 of these ruined churches-built 80
e years ago-traces of old irrigatio
l. works are plainly discernible. AS lat
!. as 1879, Apaches attacked the oil
$ church of San Ignacio, In Sonora; 1t
e Scared walls still show plainly wher
: Indian bullets Clipped angrily at tn
g fervent defenders.
S The women and girls of Mexico al
u deeply religious. Five masses a da
il are celebrated in some of the large
e churches, and often the music is e,
l. cellent. One bright moonlight night
n sat in the palm-shaded plaza befoI
y the old cathedral of Magdalena; Il
+ side woman soloist lifted voice
3 strong, clear and wonderfully sweet
e such voice as must have given paus
n to even Melba or Farrar, "undi
4, covered though this woman was.