The border vidette., 1920-12-18
NoeAIEs-A LIVE olfY.
General Review of NogaIes and Santa
 Cruz County, Arizona.

Situated on the Mexican boun- diary, among the hills of Santa Cruz county, Arizona-of which it is the county seat-Nogales is a picturesque, delightful city, rich iu fine dwellings,, aud up. ~ to date hotels. It has nothing of the lethargy prevalent in some border towns. At an alti tude of 3,864 feet, with benefi- cent climate, excellent water, and modern sanitation it has been referred to by military au thorities as the healthiest point on the Border" There are two cities of Nogales-separa on ly by the international bouudry between the United States and Mexico. The American city shows population of 5,199 ac. cording to the 1920 census. The Mexican city of Nogales, with 2,50O people in 1910. now boasts of more than five thousand. The imports from Mexico via No gales into the United States in 1919 exceeded SIP, ,OOO, 900, and the American exports to Mexico
  ceed 5000, GOO. Per capita, there is perhaps no city or town in the United States that hand les as many dollars worth of commercial business annually. Nogales, Arizona, with two na- tional banks and a trust com; pany, has bank resources ex- ceedin@ four million dollars; that means for the city per capita bank resources of $666. 66 per man, woman and child. +--
 The public buildings of No gales are in themselves adver- tisements of the prosperity and up to-dateness of the community.
 Business locations in the re tail district are in large demand. Alterations and expansions rap idly are being made in tbis sec tion, but these serve only to , meet the increased trade of the established houses. In several cases the growth of business has forced large firms to seek new quarters adequate for car ing for their customers. '
 The retail business has burst from it's confines and is spread ing rapidly along streets which heretofore have been given over to other purposes. In evidence of this can be mentioned the activity in construction and i'm movements in Grand Avenue and Arroyo Boulevard
 NogaleS is sub-district head quarters for the army of the Border and has a post contain and infantry, with motor trans port and quartermaster detach- ments and a complete base hos pital. With the passage by, Con Rress of definite army plan, it is anticipated that Nogales will have a greatly enlarged military force apportioned to it. In this respect, it may be said that re- lations between the people of the two citities and Mexican-are most cordial, and the Stationing of troops here is largely for strategic and climatic reasons.
 The city hall, high school and olic school buildings of our city are far better than the aver age in communities of like popu- lation, and the proposed Federal Building-for which Congress ional appropriation has already been made-will be an addition of artistic and commercial value.
 This wide awake, prosperous border town has the unique dis tinction of handling more for eign trade, probably than any other inland city of it's size in the world. The annual custom house business transacted with Mexico exceeds the total of that done by aIl other border points of entry into that vast and inn mensely rich storehOse of Ma ture-Mexico. Served by the Southern Pacific railway which continues on into Mexico as the Southern Pacific Railway of Mexico-it is on the main line of the great Pacific Coast sys tem extending from Cananea through Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona to a point some nine hundred miles down the West Coast of Mexico.
 Nogales is primarily a jobbing center, where American and Mexican commercial interests come together for the transac- tion of business affairs of inter est and of profit to both parties.