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earthquake movements in the adjacent hills of Palæozoic strata 
had left no marks, the dislocations over many square miles in 
the valley would have sufficed to throw down buildings and to 
cause great loss of life in an inhabited region. There are believed 
to be no evidences of previous earthquake disturbances in this 
region since its discovery by the Spaniards centuries ago. 
From the published reports of commissioners named by the 
State of Sonora it appears that the regions injured by the earth- 
quake are in two nearly parallel north and south valleys in the 
district of Moctezuma, along the river Bavispe, a tributary 
the Yaqui. The town of Bavispe itself, of fifteen hundred souls, 
lies about seventy miles south of the American frontier and one 
hundred and ten miles southeast of Bisbee, Arizona; its eleva- 
tion being three thousand and seventy feet above the sea. Here 
forty-two persons were killed and twenty-five wounded. Bace- 
rao, twenty miles farther south, also suffered much damage, and 
the estimate for property destroyed in this valley was two hun- 
dred and eighteen thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dol- 
lars. Opoto, Guasalas, Granados, Bacudebachio, and Nacovi 
lie in a lower valley about thirty miles west of the last, the ele 
vation of Guasalas being only seventeen hundred and twenty 
feet above the sea. The loss of life was here confined to Opoto, 
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one hundred and fifteen dollars. In both regions arè 
noticed the opening, in the arable lands, of numerous Tt 
generally north or northeast in direction, from many ofw d 
water flowed abundantly. The river thus supplied in a time 
excessive drought swelled to the volume usual in the rainy ie. 
summer; a condition which lasted up to the time of wo : 
port of Señor Liborio Vasquez, dated at Bavispe, May 29) ‘ling : 
The fields had become green and the air moist with prevaii™s. 
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less than seven volcanoes in the vicinity, which were hey: 
ing for two days, but without any flow of lava; while 
formation that the celebrated crinoid beds are situated: ise, 
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