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Nogales, Arizona, and her oinfesr city Nogales, Sonora, are possibly the most unique of any two cities located on the non if .American continent. On the unerloan side you have a very Modern and progressive amorican city of 8,500, and just by wallring across a street you find yourself in' a quaint inexican city of 18,500. Although quaint in many resnoots, the Sonora side also has sections in her c5 by v/ich arc obnsibly th© most modem in all Mexico. As on exatnole, the Mercado Municipal or Public Uarltot in the Sonora city is equipped throughout with automatic rofrigorati on systems, displaying its goods in tho manner of an un-tc-dnte city in tho United States.
Ambos Nogales has long boon pointed out as an example of outstanding internstione1 friendship and cordiality. The Into President Alvaro Obroron of Mexico presented the Nogales, Arizona, Chamber of Commerce in 19533 ■ :1th a large saraoe which now hangs on the v.ulla of the ch..ber of 'demroorbo office. In making the presentation. Pre-
sident Obregon stated that Nogales of all cities should have the credit, for the international concord which was bringing about new developments in Mexico. These examples of international good-wi.il arc best explained by the words of America's . ell-known writer and comedian, fill Rogers, who states fro following:
"roll....what I am getting at is not to toll how I was wolcorsed in Nogales, but the friendly way the neoole of our side of the lino got along with the ones from tho Mexican side....bach side down there knew how to give as well as toko. The Arizona side didn’t send them a note every morning making some complaint. If there was any difference of opinion, both sides knew they could get together and talk it ov r. It looked to me like a town where everybody was tending to their own business instead of sonseboy else's."
Nogales in a business way is the third largest city in tho Stata of Arizona. All financial statistics which are available she that Nogales is consistently in third dace and this dees not, of course, take into consideration the four banks located in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Again, one of tho things of which our d ty is very uroud and’boasts of is the fact that we arc t’-c largest port, of entry on the entire Mexican border. Nogales is a truly comrnerelnl city handling tho business interests of one half a million of our Mexican neighbors residing on tho rich Vo at Coast of Mexico.
HIstorleel No,vales and Santa C5ruz County.
Before Paul Hevi or made his famous ride, before tho Battle of Bunker Hill or the signing of tho declaration of Indocondonoe this section of Arizona was occunied by the crown forces of Spain and the Spanish J/.issionaries had laroady made friends with the Indians and established numerous missions.
The Mission San Jo so do Tumacacori—onco San C:\yetano do Tumacacori—lies eighteen miles north of Nogales on the Old Spanish Trail highway. It was proclaimed a National Monument by the United States government in September, 1908, and plans have since been formulated to protect the ruins and landscape the ton acre nark in which