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310 miles; Querobabi, 189 miles; Posa, 205 miles; Carlo, 217 miles; Pesqueira, 239 miles; Zamora, 247 miles; Junction, 260 miles; Hermosillo, 263 miles (thirty minutes' stop) ; Willard, 274 miles; Torres, 289 miles; Moreno, 307 miles; Ortiz, 323 miles; Santa Rosa, 333 miles; Maytorena, 338 miles; Batamotal, 345 miles; Long Bridge, 348 miles; Batuecas, 350 miles ; Guaymas, 353 miles.

This road extends through a fine cereal and grazing country. Oranges, pears, melons, and other fruits grow at Hermosillo and to the southward. This town has 7,000 inhabitants. It contains a good hotel, the ''Cosmopolitan. Hermosillo'' lies in a valley about ten miles long and four miles wide. It is at the base of the Sierra de la Campana,