Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-09-09

Iele S.-EDITOR OIrIZEN.
Superintendent Moore rode down
with US to Maricopa, and we nevel
knew before how much hard, disagree
able riding and work a stage ling su
perintendent has to do, and we gained
some entirely new ideas Of this super
intendent in particular. Instead OF
finding him the easy going, unemphat
ic character we had put HIM up for, he
comes out in business as a strict, close
ly observant and exacting employer
and an efficient and obliging stage
manager.
After the heat and torture of the
California desert, one rolls down to
the sea at San DIEGO Wit, gratitude to
heaven in his heart and feeling OF
supreme JOY. He VOWS never again to
think lightly of the Doge of Venice
the sea. He admires the
Doge's taste and tries to imagine that
that ancient gentleman had a little
Yuma California desert all to him
self, and when he wished to get up a
first class appetite for an espousal, he
first marched across his desert, on foo;
and short of water, SO that at the end
of the trip he could spouse an ordi-
nary mill-pond with gusto. The sea
at San Diego is beautiful and the
town sits like d bride beside her be
rothed, expectant of the coming joys
and wealth of the future. If there is
any one thing more than another
which should gain San Diego nothing
but good will from all travellers and
it is her hotel-the Horton
Let the city change ever so
much, she never need change her
hotel-except perhaps foT
Under its present manage
ment it is good enough for prince and
peasant.
AS one leaves the bay at San Diego
and starts up on the ocean along the
interminable, mOnOtOuOus, hopeless
line of coast range mountains, he be
gins to get sick of the sea and its
grandeur and everything else. In
fact, if he be like the writer, he wall
get sick at the stomach, and sea-sick-
ness is just about as bad thing as we
know of Everything becomes joy.
less and tasteless. How one longs to
get back to Arizona. If he had wings,
how joyfully would he fly the desert
and the plain and alight by the banks
of the Santa Cruz again and stay con-
tentedly in Tucson until he were car
ried finally to its fenceless and order
less graveyard. But he is aboard ship
and must go on, by headland, by cape,
by lighthouse and Cliff-House, and
guided through hopeless fog by moan
ing fog horn, he rounds through by
the gate of gold-even into the golden
city, though mot by no means" into
the new Jerusalem. What an index
of mighty money power is this Pacific
metropolis! Backed up by the mag
nifcent wealth flowing from the
mines, the fields and the communica-
tions of commerce, the city dashes
ahead with such rapid strides that an
absentee of but few years, is lost on
his return. We are writing nothing
new, but it is a matter of such univer-
sal wonder, that it is impossible 10
speak of San Francisco and not speak
of its constant and rapid growth. But
while the city is great and beautiful
and the people are smart and enter
prising, one grows tired of the monot
ony presented in the occupation of the
people. A stranger would naturally
expect that among so many inhabi
tants there would be a variety of bust
ness. But no, there is only one, aud
that is dealing in mining stocks
There isn't a man, woman or child
that has cut its teeth, but whose
whole attention and interest are vested
in mining stocks. You greet the new
ly made mother and wish her Joy Of
her first born, and she wishes to know
if you can't suggest some safe stock
Of which TO buy few shares for the
poor dear" You approach the bride
and the groom with your congratula
tons, and they both anxiously bee
you "for points on some fayoritC
stock" You stand beside the mourn
or at the grave, and amid the rafting
Of the dust to dust and your low
hope of a reunion with the
the bereaved one can only
find heart to whisper and express {
q fear that California is going to fall be
hind Consolidated Virginia." And so i
goes, and these are all facts or We
be writing them. And arm
we here and don't we know whereof
we speak? And have we not a few
loose shares ourself? 1t is indeed q
city and people, and there
are many strange things to be narrated
thereof
J. L. III.
A THIRSTY topper in a bar-rOOm