Arizona citizen., 1872-06-08
MIR. WAsSON,S JOTTINCs.
Along the HumbOldt--TheC Condition
 There by Contrast.

There by Contrast.
 ALONG THE HUMBOLDT, May r,
 fS72.-Twenty years ago, it was re-
 garded feat of remarkable endurance
 to travel through this section, and to Iget safely over without suffering from thirst or hunger, almost wonder 1; then the plodding pilgrim would daily declare the country one accursed
 and rarely passable, and as to being
 inhabitable by the noble white man,
 the preposterous thought never enter
 ed his mind or into his speculations-
 in fact, he thought the man who got
 once over it alive ought to die in a
 second attempt to traverse it; now, he flies along at the rate of 300 miles |per day and regards the trip positive luxury, and rather envies the unfor-
 tunate who has not the time or means
 Fo enjoy it. Apd we'll he may. As
 be rides, he lounges in a car correctly
 named "Silver Palace;" its seats
 foqld adorn parlor anywhere {; its
 darpets and finish in detail, are sooth-
 ing and pleasing to the senses; its
 fine beds-woo you to sleep as you go
 dlong; its admirable ventilation neu-
 aralizes the parehing sun; its vessels
 bf pure mountain water made colder
 by ice, are reviving and ready resorts
 to cool the brain and moisten the tongue; the little tables SO easily ad- justed between the seats, enable the to read, write, play cards, or eat lunch with ease and at leisure. Soap, water, towels, and state rooms are the conveniences by which one may at any time make junction of u clean person and linen. Then the houses and cultivated lands and caper- ing horses, cattle and sheep, are ire quently in view to show how sadly the passer by of twenty years ago, misunderstood the capacities of the detested Humbolt valley. Here and there, 8 tasty family have flowing fountains surrounded by green shrubs, flowers, swards, good gardens and young fruit trees, and they take pride in calling the place their "home," and telling you what they will have in few years more. They say-Just give us little more time, and We will show you what can be done away out here. And they will do what the early traveller, passing for the second time, would regard as nothing less than marvellous. The white cottages, the romping children, the domestic fowls and animals, now seen so often from the car windows, are wonderful even to me, who five years ago only knew this section as one infested by ,avages as bent on theft, murder and destruction as are the Apaches of Ari- zona and when man was met just from here, he was congratulated on lis safely getting over the hard and dangerous ground. Why is it differ mt now! Because of the Govern nent's iberaiity being utilized by men of skill and persevering energy. And now we hear much talk of these men similar to that of 1861 to 1S64-5. Then many had no milder names for hem than fools or swindlers and of
 en both; and now that their works lave made the habitation of the coun- ;ry not only possible but profitable md even desirable, the same bar-room md splteful epithets are purposely ap- oiled to them by those who only lack d the ability and foresight and none ,f the disposition to be a tcnfold worse monopoly than the Central Pa fife Railway Company. Instead of along here amid dangers, with ! parched tongue, and longing for the md of the route and only reaching it tt the rate of two and half to three niles an hour, I am passing in safety, vitk apples, strawberries, ice water, ,od breezes, writing these sentences tt the rate of twenty miles an hour, ,ather regretting that the journey will be so soon Over. Instead of fear ns{ the savage Shoshone Indians, a ady> just facing me is passing apples ,ut to some of them who are looking ID beggingly for favors of any kind. Such is the treatment even lazy but