The border vidette., 1929-06-15

NOk6lSS CdpltdilSb duu lOI u0T
Mayor and City Alderman of
Nogales. arrived here Wednes
day accompanied by Mrs. Bow
man and their daughter, Miss
Betty Jean, and their little grand
daughter. Georgia, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j Cavanuagh.
of Palm City, California, where
the Bowmans own a beautiful
20 acre home overlooking San
Diego bay.
That Mr.. and Mrs. Bowman
are glad to be back in Nogales,
where they resided many years
before going to San Diego to
scjourn, goes without saying.
More than thirty years ago
they lived in Sonora. where Mr..
Bowman served as agent-tele
graph operator at Carbo, Torres,
and other stations on the Sonora
(now Southern Pacific de Mex
ico) railroad. including Nogales,
Arizona and Nogales. Sonora.
5 Later, Mr.. Bowman, then a
very young man. was promoted
to the responsible position Of
Superintendent of the Sonora
Division of the Southern Pacific
of Mexico, serving under the late
FL. Joseph Temple, manager of
that companys This positie n
be resigned to engage in the
commission and wholesale mer.
camille business ID this city on q
scale, filling big contracts for the
Carranza aud other Mexican
governments controlling the
State of Sonora.
Having unbounded confidence
in Nogales and city's future, Mr..
Bowman invested his money
right here at home. He built for
himself and family a pretty resi-
sdence at the corner of Terrace
avenue and Crawford street, now
owned by Mr.. A. L. Lewis; later
be erected at cost of $50, 900,
the beautiful white mansion on
Cavalry Hill which be sold to
Mrs. Theodora S. Marsh. Then
be purchased valuable residential
property on Marsh Heights,
where, some day, we hope, be
and his estimable family again
will make their home, surround
ed by old friends.
Writ Bowman erected the big
Hotel Bowman and a large bust.
ness block on Grand avenue and
the handsome Nogales Theater
on Morley avenue.
About three or more years ago
Bowman went to San Diego
possessing a comferta BILE fortune
and became interested with big
financial projects, among them
being the Aqua Caliente Com
pany. Inc. Writ G. Bowman,
President, which now owns the
world famous Aqua Caliente
pleasure resort, Americas mag.
nificent play ground. situated in
the valley of the Tijuana River,
eighteen miles south of San
Diego, California, and three miles
from the international border
line separating Tijuana, Old
Mexico and San Ysidro, Cali
fornia, where now there is being
built by the Aqua Caliente Jock.
ey Club, Inc., of which be is
President, a horse racing track
to cost So, 900, 10000. gold. to be
ready for the King of Sports. :"
on Christmas Day, 1929.
Successful in all his financial
ventures in California and Baja
California, Mexico. where be has
made many profitable invest
ments in residential and business
property. Mr.. Bowman has al.
ways .harked" back to little old
Nogales, where many happy
years of bis life were spent.
The men and women voters of
Santa Cruz county and Nogales
elected him Mayor and City AL
derman of Nogales; they honored
him by sending him to the
Arizona State Legislature as a
representative of the lower house
from Santa Cruz county; later,
The Democratic party of Arizona
named him as delegate to the
historic New York City Demo
cratic National convention, where
be kept the faith" with his con.
stituents.
With all his wealth-said to be
millions-Wirt G. Bowman. is
never up stage" never too
proud to be known by bis old
neighbors; never too proud to be
known by his poor friends. He's
for Nogales and her people, first,
last and all the time.