Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-08-24
SONORA AND THE YAQuIs.

Just the mere headline 'Yaqui
chief may be governor of Son.
ora sounds like paradox-but
then Sonora is State of the
sharpest contrasts, says a bulle-
tin of the National Geographic
society.
Imagine western Pennsylva-
Mia with it's farms and coal
mines, and gold and silver mines
as we'll, with unsubdued tribes of
thieves and killers whom the
State police could not quell,
dwelling in it's mountains with
one OF these tribesmen running
for governor, and you have only
a partial comprehension of Mexi-
&C S second largest State.
mo other place Oh our conti-
nent is comparable to Sonora in
wealth. Its history discloses in.
cidents that would have startled
CrOesus and Solomon: Indians
picking up a 6OO-pound nugget
OF pure silver and carrying it
away OH a platform slung be-
tween two mules. The owner of
i the famous Quintera mine who
lined bridal chamber for his
daughter with bars of silver and
laid a pavement this chaste
metal from her home to the.
church. The widow who packed
her mgots OH 40 mules and set
out with the overladen beasts to
Mexico City where she sought
safety for her wealth by deposit
ing it with the Spanish viceroy.
The lady disappeared in a mani
her officially unknown and her
fortune reverted to the State.
I'm modern times episodes like
these were transformed by the
magic of scientific mining and, in
the years of Mexico's normalcy,
Sonora s annual output of miner
ais exceeded so million dollars.
And yet in some parts of
Sonora yom can kick your break
fast off the trees any morning in
the year Unlike many mining
regions Sonora also comprises
areas of marvellous fertility. Crit
lis who hold that Americans
crossed the border at Nogales
only to take away buried treas
urc of gold, silver, copper, iron,
coal and lead should visit the
man made Eden in the Yaqui val
ley where an American company.
employed the wizardry of irri-
CATION to make thousands Of
acres bear fruit and grain.
Before the days of Villa an
other American corporation had
Ii cattle ranch III Sonora which
was subdived into 200 pastures
lands, and overseers were equip
ped with automobiles and maps
tiat showed trails, fences, roads
and pastures.
1.-The State of Sonora sends it's
sons to American schools and buys
American automobiles, shoes, pho.
!nographs, sewing machines and
golf clubs. 1t tanned its treacher-
Gus Apaches and put them 10
work OH farms. 1t lined up many
laquis, but even a tame 'Yaqui,'
or Manzos, must follow his nat
ural bent, so he is employed as a
soldier. The wild Yaqui is about
as the >Spaniard found him
Fighting, raiding, always equipped
with water gourd and weapon,
and nowadays wearing sandals of
green cowskin. He sleeps with q
corner of his mind awake for the
sound of the dried skin signal
drum. The sound of that drum
said one Mexican officer, always
gives the enemy an earache.'
The Little City of Beauty
is the capital of the resonant
State, and close by the capital is
the Hill of the Bells, TO translate
the meaningless native names.
Sonora is derived from 'Sono-
rous.' El Cerro de las Campanas>
is the hill near Hermosillo, the
capital, which gave the State it's
name; the rock in this hill gives
a bell-like sound when it is
struck, and the same sort Of
white marble is found in other
nartS If tho Sfofo