Consignment of provisional Estado de Sonora issue

Records exists for the receipt of the following consignments from the printers^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2993; El Estado de Sonora, 23 September 1913}:

By 14 March 1914 most of these notes had been delivered to the Tesorería General, but $40,000 in third and fourth series $1, $150,000 in third and fourth series $5 and $75,000 in fourth series $10 notes still remained in the Secretaría de Hacienda^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2993}. Since these last $5 and $10 notes had the extra signature of Interventor Astiazarán they must have been issued after his appointment on 24 September 1914.

When Luis Sotomayor handed over responsibility for the Tesorería General to Jesús Ramos in December 1914 he included three packets of notes, $5 Series 4, 11101 to 15000, worth $19,500 that he had yet to sign. As they all had Interventor Astiazarán’ signature, it was agreed that Sotomayor should sign them^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2991, handover folder, 15 – 22 December 1914}.

Also, when Luis Sotomayor handed over responsibility for the Tesorería General to Jesús Ramos there were $21,458.45 in mutilated notes (all Estado de Sonora except for the odd $40 or $50 in Chihuahua notes) in eleven strongboxes^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2991, handover folder, 15 – 22 December 1914}.

Onward distribution

We have various references to their introduction.

The notes are recorded as appearing in Cananea on Thursday, 4 September^{Douglas Daily Dispatch, 6 September 1913}.

On 17 September the Mayor of Agua Prieta, Belisario García, was complaining that the Comisario de Policiá, among others, was refusing to accept the notes, the Comisario claiming that that the signature was not authentic^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2971, telegram Belisario García, Agua Prieta, to Maytorena, 17 September 1913} but the Comisario denied this, sayig that only one Chinaman had asked for information and been told that their circulation was compulsory^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2971, telegram J. M. Aguirre, Comisario, Agua Prieta, to Maytorena, 17 September 1913}.

By 16 September the notes had reached Nogales^{Douglas Daily Dispatch, 17 September 1913}. But the next day A. C. Villaseñor, Prefecto at Nogales, was asking when they would receive notes^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2971, telegram Villaseñor, Nogales, to Maytorena, 17 September 1913} and on 26 September complained that they still had not arrived^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2971, telegram Villaseñor, Nogales, to Juan Sánchez Azcona, Hermosillo, 26 September 1913}. Sánchez Azcona promised $1 notes, which were what was left, by the next train^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2971, telegram J. Sánchez Azcona, Hermosillo to Villaseñor, Nogales, 26 September 1913}.

Earlier, on 20 September $1,500 in 25c notes was sent to Nogales by the next post^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2971 telegram Maytorena, Hermosillo, to A. C. Villaseñor, Nogales, 20 September 1913}.

Maytorena was in Navojoa on 17 January 1914. The Presidente Municipal there told him that there was no fractional currency so the hacendados could not pay their peones. He wanted 25c and 50c notes^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2993 Maytorena, Navojoa to Randall, Hermosillo, 17 January 1914} but Randall replied that the Tesorería General had none, as they were all in circulation^{AGHES, Fondo Oficialidad Mayor, tomo 2993 Randall, Hermosillo, to Maytorena, San Blas, 18 January 1914}. On 21 July 1914 Maytorena wrote from Guaymas asking if he could have $1,000 in small notes (5c to 50c)^{AGHES, Fondo Oficial Mayor, tomo 2993, telegram Maytorena, Guaymas, 21 July 1914} but Sotomayor replied that he could let him have $1 notes, but he only had about $500 in 25c and 50c notes and no 5c or 10c notes (which were very scarce in the market) ^{AGHES, Fondo Oficial Mayor, tomo 2993 Sotomayor, Tesorero General Interino, Hermosillo, to Maytorena, Guaymas, 23 July 1914}.