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Ajo Copper News
Ajo, Pima County, Arizona
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H. B. Titcomb reports 5,500 carloads of vegetables to be shipped from Mexico's west coast this year, up from 3,500 last year. Floods caused minimal damage with replanting underway. 44,000 acres planted, mainly tomatoes. Rail improvements and new link to open in September 1926.
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Tucson—Fifty-five hundred carloads of vegetables will be shipped from the coast of Mexico this year, as against 3,500 last year, according to H. B. Titcomb, president of the S. P. de M., who has just returned from a trip of inspection through the states of Sonora, Sinaloa and Nayarit.
Mr. Titcomb said that the recent floods caused by cloudbursts and a 48 hours’ downpour as far south as Ixtlan would leave no definite bad effect on the crops. Acreage damaged by the floods has already been replanted and the young vegetables have begun to sprout.
Forty-four thousand acres of vegetables and melons have been planted this year on the west coast 33,000 acres being devoted to the culture of tomatoes.
The activity in the Cajeme valley along the Yaqui river in agriculture is said to be far in excess of last year's records, which showed an acreage planted in excess of 42,000 acres. Crops in this section are diversified, being largely wheat, corn alfalfa, rice and vegetables. The Fuerte valley will produce, it is said about 22,000 acres in vegetables of which 20,000 have been planted in tomatoes.
The crop of early green peas alone on the west coast will amount to 4,750 acres or about 480 carloads.
The vegetables maturing much earlier in the year than in Florida or in California are shipped to all parts of the United States and command high prices in the markets.
Mr. Titcomb said that the S. P. de M. has made extensively improvements in trackage at Cajeme to take care of the shipments and to serve the rice mills and industrial warehouse in that section. He reports that the late disastrous landslide at tunnel No. 4 has been cleared away and the next few days will find the tunnel in good shape and construction going on rapidly.
The new link from Tepic to La Quemado connecting the west coast with Mexico will be open September, 1926.
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West Coast Of Mexico (Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit)
Event Date
This Year
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5,500 carloads of vegetables to be shipped (up from 3,500 last year); flood damage replanted with no definite bad effect; 44,000 acres planted (33,000 in tomatoes); new rail link from tepic to la quemado to open september 1926
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H. B. Titcomb reports increased vegetable and melon acreage on Mexico's west coast, with shipments to the US expected to rise significantly. Recent floods minimally impacted crops, which have been replanted. Agricultural activity in Cajeme and Fuerte valleys exceeds last year, with diversified crops. Rail improvements at Cajeme and tunnel clearance ongoing.