The border vidette., 1931-02-21
SONORA HIGHWAY Will OPek
RICH INTERIOR OF MeX CO

With the Mexican state and
federal government planning to
spend $650.000 on highway con
struction in Sonora this year.
Arizona probably will benefit
tremendously since the new
roads will open up tropical see
nic attractions to tourists.
Many tourists, it is believed.
soon will pass through Arizona
to Nogaies and from there down
into Mexico to visit Magdalena,
Hermosiilo. Gaaymas aud other
Sonora cities.
Prime attention will be given
in the highway construction
plans to the Sonora link Of the
proposed International Pacific
coast highway which will con
meet L7s Angeles and Mexico
City, it is said.
By next fall, it is expected,
there will be a % foot road from
Nogales to Hermosilio and the
highway from Nogales to Quay
mas, on the west coast, will
have been improved. Tourists
entering Sonora can obtain a
10 day passport without bond
and with but few technicalities.
Within two months work will
begin on military road from
San Luis. south of Yuma, via
Cananea to Aqua Prieta. con.
Meeting with the road to Juarez,
paralleling the Arizona border
most of the way. it has been an.
nounced. Hermosillo, too, will
be connected with Naco and
Aqua Prieta by good roads.
Francisco S. Elias, governor
of Sonora. is q leader in the
good roads movemant. and has
bsen instrumental in selling the
idea to the Mexican government.
He is a graduate of the Univer
sity of Arizona, speaks fluent
English and is great booster
of educational programs und in
dustrial projects.
Ia addition to the development
of the natural resources of the
state, through legislation des.
igned to encourage the entry Of
new capital. the remodeling Of
old school buildings and con.
struction of new and commodi
ous ones and the reorganization
of the entire educational system
so as to provide all sections with
adequate facilities has been IN.
dertaken.
Since Governor Elias also be
lieves that good roads are sec
ond only to good schools for
bringing about DEVELOPMENT of
a country, persons who enjoy
automobile tours and have here
tofore been unable to go beyond
the torder towns in Sonora. soon
will be able to travel by motor
over excellent dirt roads, 18 feet
wide from Douglas or Naco via
Cananea and Bacoachi to Naco
zari and Cnmpas; or via Cana
nea, Bacoachi, Arizpe and Ures
to Hermosillo. the state capital.
It will be possible over a good
road to make the trip from No
gales south passing through
Imuris. Magdalena, Santa Ana
and other small towns, to Her
mosillo. At Santa Ana q side
trip in the Altar district may al
so be made. Work is now un
der way to construct the Sonora
link of the federal highway from
Lower California to the City of
Mexico. It will pass through
Caborca, Santa Ana. Hermosillo,
Guaymas and Navojoa. When
completed one may make the
trid comfortably by automobile
from Los Angeles by way of
Phoenix to Mexico City.
The border towns through
which tourists will pass, offer
the usual forms Of amusements
foundin in those places, but
due to their proximity to the Ari
zona towns. they have lost much
of their interesting Mexican
characters which is now found
in the towns more distant from
the border.
The roads now under construc
ton will make it possible to visit
the interior towns permitting de
tours from the main highways
of the United States through the
ports of Douglas, Naco and No
gales, and if the traveller SO de
sires, be may continue over the
Pacific international highway
from Santa Ana to Caborca and
return to the United States