(Unknown Author)

Come to Mexico. The land of rest, recreation and romance. The world’s greatest undeveloped field, where opportunity beckons to the tourist, the prospector and the capitalist. See Nacozari first—the most friendly, the most beautiful, the wonder camp of all Mexico.

(1931) – Population 4,335. Altitude 3,552 feet, seventy-seven miles south of Douglas, Arizona, at the terminus of the Nacozari R. R. headquarters of the Nacozari Railroad and the Moctezuma Copper Company, a Phelps Dodge subsidiary, operating at Nacozari a large and modern concentrator and the mines at Pilares de Nacozari (population 7,500, altitude 4,692 feet), five miles distant.

At both places the company maintains modern hotels, stores, amusement halls, reading rooms, libraries, bathrooms and picture show halls. The social life of the foreign colony is featured by athletic meets, parties and dances.

With a Country Club at Nacozari boasting of the finest double, clay tennis court in the Southwest and the most unique six-hole golf course this side of Los Angeles, a Tennis Club at Pilares, a lake near Nacozari where one can swim, fish and shoot duck, there is plenty of good sport for all outdoor enthusiasts. Within a day’s ride quail in season are to be found in large coveys, wild turkey and deer abound and bear and mountain lion are not uncommon. The climate is delightful, with an average temperature for 1929 of 66 degrees—and the scenery very picturesque, making this district most attractive for the tourist, prospector or capitalist.

Nacozari is justly proud of the Douglas Memorial Fountain, erected by the sons and daughters of the late Dr. James Douglas, who, as President of Phelps Dodge and Company, founded the town in 1897, when the Pilares mine was purchased from the Guggenheims. It also is the home of Jesus Garcia, the engineer of the Mine Railroad, who saved Nacozari by pulling two cars of burning dynamite out of town, but lost his life in performing this heroic deed. A magnificent granite monument erected in the Plaza by popular subscription attests the thanks of a grateful populace.

To the south lie rich mineral districts practically untouched by modern man, but mined off and on for hundreds of years by primitive methods. Cumpas, the capital of the Moctezuma district, thirty-three miles south, is reached by auto stage, while nineteen miles further on, also accessible by auto, is the ancient city of Moctezuma with its cathedral more than 300 years old, and rich in historic lore.

Second only in importance to mining is the cattle industry, which has been practically untouched by the revolution, and over these vast stretches of range run thousands of contented cattle, plentifully supplied with water and grass the year ‘round as the result of abundant rainfall.

Reduce rates on the Nacozari R.R. now in effect. Round-trip rate, Agua Prieta to Nacozari, $6.27—on sale daily (limit, 60 days). Passports easily obtained of Consul G. L. Robinson, First National Bank Building, Douglas. For further information, address W. N. Flippen, Mgr. Hotel de Nacozari, Sonora, or better still phone H. H. Kelly, Southern Pacific Depot, Douglas.

“It’s Good Morning Every Morning in Nacozari”

Published on Douglas Daily Dispatch
Douglas, Arizona, May 19, 1931
Vol. XXVIII, No. 277

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