The oasis. [volume], July 07, 1906, Image 1

About The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920

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Vol. VII, No. ;.
NOGALKS. ARIZONA, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1906.
Whole No . 686.
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NOGALES NOT
w.st from Nacozari. crossing the j TUP HAV AT MHUOV and happy tho inner m.nn ,.f
; international line at a point some- 1 1 1 - w lv""'icral hundred penph, An i ,
rM PIS A I M II ?i? V ' where in the vicinity of Han Pedro.
UII MMIIV about where the San Pedro river
j crosses the line, ome twenty miles
" j west of Naco. which will mean the
..,.i.r. ' upbuilding of a new town on the
SHORTER ROUTE FOR CANANEA, YAQJI,, ;U Fn)m
RIVER 4 PACIFIC RAILWAY. ! Pedro the line will run north to
1 Benson, making a. connection that
I will shorten the distance from lien-
Main Line Will Run From Benson to j son to the Yaqui River, where the
j road branches, by about one hun
Idred and twenty miles. That will
BIG CELEBRATION PULLED OFF
LUCKY MINING CAMP.
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i cream pavilion had heen erected
1 hy Mrs. Kane of Patagonia, and
.-jthat lady and her assistant, Mrs.
Nacozari, South to Yaqui River
and into Interior of Mexico.
The main line of the Cananea, Yaqui
give an almost direct route from
Benson to the Yaqui river country,
instead of hauling through trains
over a U as is now done to reach
a ... : .. l t ...i. : ii. .. i
River & Pacific railroad, in the opinion j me point iroia which ine roau now
of well posted railroad men, will run j completed from Guaymas to the
from Benson to Nacozari, thence to! Yaqui river country turns north
the Yaqui river, thence to Alamos, j to Nacozari, and would cut off
thencetoCuiiacan, thence to Mazat-Hout one hundred and twenty
Ian, thence to Guadalajara, the con-1 mile of a haul between those
necting point with the Mexican j points, as stated. . The line he
Central, j tween Guaymas and the Yaqui
; j river will be hut a branch eon-
. . meeting the main line with that
lull to the brim with rumors if seaport. The route from Nacozari
l no atmosphere oi .Negates, j um j norl.jt
to t lie brim it lias been lor several!
Stuck Drill Spoils Drilling Contest,
but All Went Well in Other
Events.
it
is believed
will
bi snrvcvpi! 'mil wIiph
months past and the railroads that I th.,f nrt f,n r,vi 'i, L
those rumors are running in and L-aia.i u ,,,-,f ' i, ,.w,,,t,,,i
out of this particular hue city are that the ruilroad company "will
numerous enough to make the contiu3e to haul thrt, UJ,h r,;ins to
great rauroau centers oi the world j 1C qjv 0f e
mi up and taKe notice
Childress, were husilv emploved in
; serving the people who realized
that there was a fitting dessert for
j the barbecue.
j In the afternoon the first attrae
j tion on the program was the horse
(race, a three hundred yard dash,
! for which there were nine entries.
I It was won by a grey horse owned
and ridden by Jesse Bland.
The celebration of the Fourth,, ThfVth next event was the
y t . . , base ball game, between the Union
of July at Mowry was a complete j nine of Xogales, and the Mowry
success, both in attendance and ! nine. Nine full innings were
the enjoyment of all who partici-1 played and the visitors were done
pated. ' Beside everybody residing iuP h' the home team with a
in the immediate "vicinity there i'g?andalouS score of 14 to The
... , . i INogales bovs plead as an excuse
attended large numbers of resi-that driving over in the rainstorm
dents of other portions of the j the night before, had taken a great
county. Xogales, Patagonia, Wash-1 deal of "ginger" out of them, and
ington Camp, Duquesne, Lochiel, I thtW ffun1 ifc impossible to put up
T, , , n o , j ' a good came. There is probably
Parker's Canon, balero, and manvs f ,, . , . J -
. .... -something in the claim, for they
other localities were represented, j were from 5:30 p. m. until 1:30 a.
and the assemblage was a eon-1 ra. making the drive, were thor
tented and joyous crowd. joughly drenched by the storm
The festivities took place on the j which broke about nine o'clock in.
broad Hat opposite' the home of j the evening and continued all the
Mr.' George l). Gross, in fact the way. When they reached Mowry
spacious area within ins iront j they were a forlorn and worn look-
xico or tram
f 1 i tied iir i ha n ll 1 rivr tannn wia int'Aiail 1 in ri flwii !n nt U(n.
ho nninerons havu hen nnd f -4 . . 4i .1 1 1 . f ' . , ,. 1 , . : . .
, country inrougu Aogaies ana to 1 proceedings, the uiamona lor the
.u,v'ul"uli'1 "l iJ 1WUS Guavmas, thence east to the river,
and, 111am lines that wil center wlien thw hmz haul ,iroua( can be
here that t lie conservative business j avo-;,C(
man .. whose desire is to invest his ! ' r," . . , , ....
ine uisiance mat win no cut on
money in accordance with the real
prospects of the town and country
in which he is located or expects
to locate, finds himself in some
what the same predicament as
Gonzalo, in "The Tempest," who
Avoukl have given a thousand
furlongs of sea for an acre of bar
ren ground: They would give a
thousand pages of rumors for one
column of truth.
At the present time Xogales is a
prosperous little town and will be
years to come. Later it wil
larger and more prosperous than
will be far greater than what
would be cut off by merely running
a line from Tucson to Xogales
along the .Santa Cruz river and
the latter cutoff would affect only
the trade from Pacific coast points,
while the cutoff from Benson to
Nacozari will affect that great
volume of trade from the eastern
part of the United States south
At evening there was a ball at
base ball game and the race course! the school house, which was a very
having been laid off therein j enjoyable gathering. The music
The first attraction was the drill-J was kept going and the dancers
ing contest, participated in by j continued their devotions to Ter
three teams of miners from Mowry. psichore until the red hue in the
They, were Frick & Miller, Jenni-jeasl heralded the approach of an
sa n & Miller, and Bruno ifc Jesus S other day.
(the latter two Mexicans whose; I he roping contests had been
surnames were not gi"en).
contest was very
exciting.
The arranged for Thursday, which was
and a mistake on the part of the man-
aroused much enthusiasm among agement, because nearly everybody
the people witnessing it. Frick & I departed Wednesdav evenimr and
Miller were the favorities, ami
they seemed sure of winning, for
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fc lit U.t'V. 1 U UVViV ll U JVM lllilllt j 1 , , ,
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tqi-m uirougu lines 10 ine interior
and from Mexican points to the j they were driving their drills at a
eastern part of the United States.
Xogales, for its future growth
nf f,. K, .... 4 I . ... .1 1 ...
it is now, but in truth it is not! T r 1 1
i;k k. t '1 11 . , I ment of tiie country nearer
likely to ho the great railroad 1 . , , . .
..,.,' iKrii ;f ,. , t , , ! home. But the development of
Center that its residents would . t f
: u 4 1 .1 i 1 ) line eountrv nearer home
wish it to lie: there is no prohabil-1 . - , . uu-;c
(ii,;,..; 1 1 . f 1 ! -i certainty and its benefits
i unit u nui in- iui MUiiu vi'.US
IS
few remained to witness the
contests. Arthur Page of Willcox,
won first money, tying his steer in
ol 2-5 seconds. Boy Sorrels was
with a record of 374
remarkable rate, when, at the end
of ten minutes their drill stuck, at j second,
a . depth of lug inches, and they j seconds'.
could do no more. Every effort; But, all the same, the celebra
te dislodge the drill to insert j tion was a royal good one, and all
another was futile, and at the end i present voted it a grand success,
of fifteen minutes time was called,! The Mowry people surely do know
1
t least, the great port of entry to
Mexico and the great railroad
center that rumor so rashly pre
dicts it will be.
In the opinion of railroad men
whose positions have acquainted
them with the different routes now
in use and those in contemplation;
with the prospects and present
development of the territory
through which it is necessary or
desirable to build and with the
trallic that enables railroads to
pay dividends, Xogales is not to be
the port of entry on the main line
of the Cananea, Yaqui River &
Pacific road. While it is tft pres
ent the main port of entry for that
road, so far as construction work
has progressed, the "branch" of
that road now being constructed
from the Yaqui river north to
Nacozari, will prove not to be a
branch, but the main line. Men who
have worked the better part of their
lives on railroad extensions, ex
pect to see the line extended north-
with 'iaf inches drilled by their j how
certainty and its benefits to i touting contestants, Jennison A: j and
Xogales will not depend entirely j Miller (there were two Millers in I day
upon a railroad survey. In time j be lists.) Bruno fc Jesus accom- j
Xogales will be developed to such j time. It is claimed for them,
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an extent that a road alone the i however, mat meir anus were
to make things interesting
enjoyable on Independence
Santa Cruz will be a dividend payer
and that fact will assure its con
struction. The same conditions
may in time bring about a con
necting line between Xogales and
Cananea. But it is not probable
that such connecting branches will
be used as a part of the main
route between the international
line and the interior of Mexico.
While it is very encouraging to
the residents of this progressive
and growing town to hear it spoken
of as the port of entry on what is
to he the main line of a great rail
road running from the interna
tional line to the City ot Mexico,
it will not prove of lasting benefit
should it be learned liter that the
1 town must be satisfied to bo what
it is now: the port of entry to the
The Fourth at Home.
Though there was no celebration
tempered too brittle and chipped
off in the holes, the chips making
harder tho work of drilling.
Neither of the losing teams feel
that the unfortunate circumstances
noted worked anything but disad
vantage to them, and that on that
account they did not do near as
well as they can. So it is talked
that there will be another contest
at an early day (on the side),
when they hope to win out.
After the. drilling contest was
I of the Fourth in Xogales, the small
boy was out with his firecrackers,
and with the crackers to make a
noise and his imagination to do
the rest, he fought through all the
bloody battles of the Revolution.
The Nogales Concert Band march
ed with martial tread to the City
park in the middle of the forenoon
and played the national airs and
several other airs, the boys doing
their share towards properly ob-
erving the great day as conscien
tiously as if all the rest of the citi-
linished the assembled multitude 1 zens of the town were backing them
up. In the evening they gave a
dance at Armory hall that was
attended hv nearly all the voun g
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were invited to participate in the
barbecue, three fine, fat steers
having been roasted. All took
hold with a hearty good will, and! people who were not out of town.
very shortly afterward the bar-; Winch goes to prove that while
beeued meat was reduced to bones (there H a band, a small boy and a
and remnants. L uge quantities j package of firecrackers in an
of bread and crackers accompanied j American town the Fourth can not
the meat in making comfortable ! be entirely ignored.