Sonora
a frontier State in the N.
W. of Mexico; on the Gulf of California; is the second largest in the republic; area, 76,633 square miles. The coast is flat and sandy, the interior filled with wooded mountains and fertile valleys.
Malaria is mostly confined to one part of the coast. Here the climate is hot, but in the mountains there is frost for five months in the year. The chief rivers are the Sonora, Yaqui, and Mayo. The principal wealth of the State is in its minerals, especially gold, silver, mercury, and iron. Agriculture, wine growing, and cattle-rearing are also successful, and cottons, hats, shoes, and soap are manufactured. Pop. about 275,000. Capital, Hermosillo; chief port, Guaymas.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVO- LUTION, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE, a patriotic society. It was organized in New York City in 1889 and membership is hereditary, being confined to descendants of those who fought in the cause of American independence, as officer, soldier, seaman, marine, militiaman, or minuteman in the forces of the Continental Congress or of the several colonies. The society is a reorganization of the Sons of Revolutionary Sires, which was organized in San Francisco, Cal., in 1875, and after 1889 became the California State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. The society was incorporated in 1906, and the membership is about 13,500.