Álamos History Timeline: 1900 – 1999
Last modified: October 20, 2014
Decades come and go, seasons come and go and Álamos keeps on keeping on.
1904
Reports of the Sud Pacifico de Mexico railroad being extended south of Guaymas were confirmed.
1905-06
Richardson Construction Company invests, and is given permission, to develop agriculture and irrigation systems on 650,000 acres of the Yaqui River delta and south.
1905-06
John Hays Hammond, associated with the Richardson Construction Company, begins to reopen and develop Álamos district mines with the approval of heavy-handed Predident Porfirio Diaz. He built a smelter in Navajoa, invested in mining equipment and managed the Promontorio and Minas Nuevas mines. His involvement ended with the coming 1911 Madero Revolution.
Amos J. Yaeger would take over Minas Nuevas property.
Amos Joseph Yaeger, July 9, 1873 – July 14, 1932. Minas Nuevas.
1906
The working class and peons begin to revolt against Diaz, a dictator in spirit. A movement is rising to stop Diaz’s re-election. Strikes and civil unrest have started.
1907
May – Railroad reaches Navajoa. This creates, and promotes, economic and settlement opportunities for southern Sonora.
1908
Álamos celebrates the first train pulling in to town from Navajoa.
1908
The region’s population was 10,000: 3,000 in Álamos, 1,000 in Aduana, 1,000 in Navajoa, 1,000 in Promontories, 1,000 in Minas Nuevas and 1,000 in Camoa. There were 30 Americans residing in town.
1910
Francisco J. Madero, the reform movement leader, arrives, with more support than opposition, in an seemingly always divided Sonora.
1911
January – Francisco Madero arrives in Álamos. Don Miquel invites Madero into to his home to meet with town leaders after Francisco A. Salido denied Madero the opportunity of organizing a public meeting to express his hopes of a peaceful solution to Mexico’s growing problems.
1911
Madero’s followers occupied several towns throughout northern Sonora and Benjamin Hill advanced on and captured Navajoa. He was on his way to Álamos before being ordered to stop and repair conflict damaged rail and telegraph lines.
1911
August 21 – Orozquistas sneak attacks Álamos and kills 100
of Madero’s men who may have been drunk.
1911
November – Madero becomes President of Mexico.
1913
President Madero assassinated. General Victoriano Huerta
becomes President.
1920
Results of the 1920 census found 275,127 people living in the state of Sonora. 13.8% were of pure indigenous backgrounds, 37,914, of these 6,765 spoke an indigenous language. 40.4% were of mixed backgrounds, 111,089. 41.9% were of white backgrounds, 115,151.
1940
The population estimate for the region in 1940, official census count, was 21,477: 11,543 men and 9,835 women. I found another from another source that the population of the city at this time may have been 5,369 hombres and 4,848 mujeres over the age of six.
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