SECTION X.
The Sonora Railway.
From Benson to Guaymas. Distance, 353 miles; time, 19 hours; fare, $21.
As already stated, the Sonora Railway connects with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé and Southern Pacific Railroads.
(For a full description of these routes, see Appletons' General Guide to the United States.)
Elevation of Benson, 3,578 feet; distance from San Francisco, 1,024 miles.
Leaving Benson, the line takes a southwesterly direction through the lower part of Arizona to Nogales on the Mexican frontier, 88 miles distant. The train stops thirty minutes here. The line between the points just mentioned is called the New Mexico and Arizona Railroad, the stations along the route being: Canisteo, 7 miles; Contention, 15 miles; Fairhanhs, 18 mile; Brookline, 23 miles; Huachuca, 29 miles; Elgin, 40 miles; Sonoita, 49 miles; Crittenden, 58 miles; Sanford's, 68 miles; Calabasas, 77 miles; and Nogales, 88 miles.
The road from Nogales to Guaymas is the Sonora Railway proper. It was completed on November 25, 1882. The stations from Nogales southward are: Encina, 94 miles; Agua Zarca, 100 miles; Cibuta, 109 miles; Casita, 115 miles; Imuris, 130 miles (fifteen minutes' stop); Piersons, 135 miles; San Ignacio, 137 miles; Magdalena, 142 miles, Santa Ana, 153 miles; Llano, 160 miles; Puerto, 183
