The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-04-17
UNITED STATES POST
OFFICES INSTRUCTED
TO SWITCH TRANSFER
OF SONORA BUSINESS
PROBABLE EFFECT WILL INCONVENIENCE
AMERICAN BUSINESS INTERESTS IN THAT
STATE, AND DRIVE TO NOGALES ALL IT'S
TRADE !

Yesterday Postmaster ]. ]. Mcintyre received from
the Post Office Department instructions forward to
Ell PasO all mail matter for Sonora, at which place it will
be delivered to the Mexico Post Office Department in
udad Juarez, Chihuahua whence the Merican govern
ment will undertake to make delivery at destinations ac-
cOrdng to it's own methods.
Without doubt this has been done at request or sug-
gestion from the Mexico Post Office Department to
which suggestion or request the American Postal au-
horities have complied without knowledge of the stua-
ton here.
The order cited that no mail will 90 across the
line at Nogales Even if one mails in Nogales Arizona
letter to to Nogales Sonora it will be to ED Paso
and Cudad uare to be forwarded to destination in the
remote future dependent very greatly upon whether the
Caranza government succeeds in reducing Sonora to
subsection And all mails to Nogaes Sonora, with other
points in that state coming from American post Offices
will be diverted to the points designated and lie there
for indefinite periods.
Nogales, merchants business and professional men
having mail matter to go to Magdaena, Cananea Her.
mosilo, Guaymas and other points in Sonora will take
their letters and parcels to the post office Nogaes So
nora and mail them there The state is operating the
mails And they will go there to get mails from in
terror points in that state.
But what effect this order will have upon mail serv
ice between other American business ceners and Sonora
can hardly be question. 1t goes without saying that
mail from Tucson, Los Angeles, San Francisco any
other American business CENTER going Sonora
Ell Paso and Ciudad Juarez will be long time in reach
ing destinations in Sonora There mail routes
from C1uQaQ JuafeZ or Cnnuanua into Sonora. Their
railway service terminates long before the Sonora line
reached Mails be sent south the Mexican Cen
trail to Guadalaara thence by rail to Manzanio and by
up the coast Mazatlan the far end of the
state of Sinaoa. From Mazatlan they may north
far point south of San Bias. At that place
General Flores with his victorious state troops bars any
further progress of mail service; and by the time
respondence from any American city could get into Sin
aoa by that round about route Flores army might be at
Culiacan to bar further transit
he Ordo tO send
mail to Ell Paso shuts off all trade with Sonora
cept that of NOgales Arizona, Our merchants go
into Nogaes, Sonora receive there their mail from
Sonora points, and mail there their correspondence
invoices etc. but the merchants of no other American
city do The effect will be to force Nogaes all
trade of Sonora.
The effect Of this order American interests in So
nora cannot fail to be injurious 1t will take some little
time for them to realize what the trouble why they get
mail When they do they can have their mail sent to
Nogaes in care of someone to it the line and
mail on that side. That about the only thing that
be done.