Arizona citizen., 1876-10-14
LETTER FROM MR. WAsSON.
made Quicker-LOs Angeles, her Railways and their Influences The Great California Desert Neg Iected by CaIifOrnians.

The Great California Desert Neg
 Iected by CaIifOrnians.
 SAN FRANCISCO, October 1.-Left Tucson September 22 at ) p. m., and arrived here at 1240 p. m. on the 29th. Was detained eighteen hours at Indian Wells and one hour and half at Los Angeles. The stage company was placing a lot of new stock between Wickenburg and the railway, and when properly done and in running order, the trip can very easily be made from Tucson to Indian Wells in three and one-half days, enabling one to come to this city in five days and twenty hours; and from what 1 am told, the same time will soon be made via Yuma and Indian Wells. The trip was made very comfortably. The easiest stage ride 1 ever made in Ari- zona, was from Tucson to Florence and about as rapid a one was that from Florence to Wickenburg. The weath. CT was cool and but very little wind or dust at any place. A little rain had fallen on the Colorado (California) desert and Tn the adjacent mountains
 By this time. material for an exten. sion of fifty-two miles of the railway is either on the desert or between Will mington and there, and was yester. day treasured by General Superintend- ent Towne that the road would be fin ished to the river by January 1, lS1'- only three months hence. He dId not indicate the point of connection on the river, but I have good reason for be lieving that Yuma or very near it will be the one. Just now President Crock. CT is in New York and so is Gov. Stan ford
 Los Angeles ought to feel gratefully to the great monopoly for making the place such railway center, not wIthstanding this was done because oi sharp business foresight rather than an accommodation toany place or body The city now has direct overland rail communication, independent of Sar | Francisco, and ere many years VII have another independent overland route to the Gulf of Mexico and other southern commercial points of note including the City of Mexico. Be cause of the grand mountain scenery of the san Fernando, Tehachepe anC other mountains, passengers will ca gerlv take the through rail route t l San Francisco. but it Is not so certain that nearly all the freight will pas
 over the heavy grades, especially if ;
 passably safe and convenient shipping l port be made at Wilmington or Sant 1 Monica or both: and after seeing wha money and engineering have accom-
 plished in the various mountains o
 this State, we may believe they will d,
 considerable wonders on the shore. | any event, Los Angeles is a favOre,
 city: nature has unusually contributed
 to her means of prosperity and railway
 capital has scarcely done less. He
 mild climate and large capacity for va l ried productions and transpOrtatiol facilities are hers for all time. He
 people have it in their power to mak r. it the third and possibly the secon
 city on the extended Pacific cOas }, California, even south of San Franci.
 co. can perhaps produce in quantit
 and variety, more than even the boast
 ful Californian claims, and the bus
 ness of railways and extent of town and cities are now mere tritles 10 wha r. they will be in this century. Even he
 mountains, mostly barren of vegetation contain much silver and lead, an,
 some gold.
 ,, But the most wonderful thing abOU this notably boastful people, is thei
 disposition to disown their very larg and perfect desert-which perhaps, a
 points of size, barrenness, sand storm.
 alkaline dust, Sc, considered, has n D superior on the globe. IL is such large desert such a magnificent spec
 men with so few fertile spots to detraC from it's perfection, that CalIfOrni
 ought to see to it that all her visitor should view it, as well as the Yosemite ', &c. If any of them think their de.
 ert not so perfect as here stated, lt -0 them traverse it fifteen or twenty time ? by stage or private conveyance.
 T The attention of the press Of Califo nia, is respectfully directed to thei
 elegant and immense desert. Nearl all-perhaps all-their other gre' wonders. have already been write and rewritten up in poetry and pros
 and described by their human and d
 vine orators. Please tell your reader |, something about your incomparabl desert J. W. Broken Conversation.
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