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Only ten years ago the entire gulf coast was a useless, dusty plain. Only a few farmers eked out a skimpy existence along the riverbanks. In 1947 the government of President Miguel Alemán began construction of the $12 million Alvaro Obregón Dam on the Yaqui River, in Sonora state. Finished in 1952, it soaked more than 543,000 acres in the valley below, created a treasure house of cotton, wheat and California-sized vegetables. In 1955 the $8,000,000 Mocuzari Dam was completed near Alamos, also in Sonora state. With its irrigation system finished...
...transforming the land, the dams have also transformed the people, who are largely of Spanish stock, and their cities. Ciudad Obregón, in the heart of the Yaqui valley, has grown from a barren crossroads to a booming city of 70,000, with modern architecture, an up-to-date airport (with cotton planted between the runways) and a home-grown crop of millionaires. The small farmer-owners, grown suddenly prosperous, make good customers for the show windows filled with gleaming new appliances and U.S.-made farm machines. Los Mochis, the sugar-mill center of the Fuerte valley, is just...
...development plan is not yet finished. North of the area fed by the Alvaro Obregón Dam stretches 300 miles of riverless desert. Beneath the parched earth lies a supply of fresh underground water. Engineers are already at work, drilling experimental wells, and surveying. It will not be long, they say, before the whole coast line from the U.S. border to Culiacán. in Sinaloa state, will be one big garden. The project can hardly help paying. Last year the crops grown in the Yaqui valley were worth more than the construction cost of the dam and irrigation...
From President Alvaro Obregón of Mexico they got a pledge: exemption from military service and oath taking, permission to educate their children as they wished and to conduct their economic affairs in their own way. From the vast Terrazas ranch in Chihuahua they bought more than 200,000 acres of land. In 1922, some 5,000 of the Canadian Mennonites arrived at the isolated railroad station of San Antonio de Arenales and set to work transforming the prairie. The job was not done easily. Water flowed into their wells from a, huge underground lake, but even with irrigation...
Died. Adolfo de la Huerta, 74, onetime revolutionary Mexican political leader, Provisional President of Mexico for seven months in 1920, between the assassination of President Venustiano Carranza and the election of General Alvaro Obregón; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City. An original member of the revolutionary movement which overthrew General Porfirio Diaz in 1911, Huerta at first supported Carranza as leader of the revolution, later shifted his support to Obregón, but broke with him when both became presidential candidates in 1923. After an attempted revolt by his followers was blocked by U.S. intervention...