Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-11-14
l.srrEn rReM ARIZONA.

mines. shook the sand OF ~ FRAN
cisco from my brogans on the 9th Of
October, and in two days thereafter the
Pioneer Bank failed. and Manager
Duncan departed like . gofged grass
hopper. Then came the Cross failure.
and the offer Of 5000. 900 for the Blue
Lake water supply. II my staying In
the city by the Golden Gate could have
prevented calsmities and contingent
u~pheavsls of society. or could have
made stocks climb to the golden goose
notch, l might have stayed; but how
vas l tn know what was about to hap.
pen. 1t il said the detectives are look
ing for Duncsn in this region. and
more unlikely things have come tn
pass in the world than that he NAV be
caught prospecting our hills in ragged
miners clothes aud broken boots, sit
ting down to a meal of beans and
bacon with a relish he never knew
when living unworthily on the sub
stance OF widows and orrhans.
THE JOURNEY SOUTH.
After leaving Alameda county the
country along the line Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad is not attractive to the
passenger. In Kern county, where it
is said that Billy Carr, the indicted,
gobbled up thousands of acres of rich
land thai would yield crops without
irrigation, the traveller sees only bare,
pArched- looking wastes, where even
the squirrels and gophers must have
hard work to make q living. ] don't
know whether Billy's land-ways are
dark and his dessrt-locating tricks vain,
not, but 1t seems TO me that any
man who will take up the land seen
from the car windows as the train
passes through the country named,
and bring it under irrigation in good
faith, will be q b~enefactor, and deserve
to reap q large financial return. /
learned from . neighbor Of Mr..
Carr, that on the irrigated land
of Carr and Hagan there in q new
kind Of disease quite fatal among fat
cattle, something akin to chills and
fever. The animal will seemingly be
in perfect health day, and the next
it will be chilled to death. This di
sease Is due. no doubt, to the rapid
evaporation going on under a cloud
less sky where the ground is saturated
with water, and can only be avoided
by house feeding of the stock.
The dryness OF the past year has
made the Southern Pacific Railroad
very Improbable to the company. II
the San Joaquin valley had raised a
full crop, the immense freights col
lected in transporting 1t to market
would have made a fine showing on
the credit side of the accounts. AS it
is now, there is but little business com
p~aratively, and sven the poverty of the
farmers Is making others too poor to
admit, on their part. OF the luxury Of
travelling as car passengers. There
will be very hard times in Southern
California IL the blessing of abundant
rains is withheld this winter.
THE ANGELS LAND.
expected to see Los Angeles conn
ty. at least. blooming as a rose-garden,
but it, too, is so SIN with drought
that the little busy.bee il dying of
starvation. The Angels may perhaps
get along on a less saccharine diet.
Saving a few bases spots where judy
ment and industry nave been at work,
there is nothing to pttract interest in
passing through this dry Southern
land. / was told that so great was the
yield of fruit, even this dry season,
that grapes could be bought in Los
Angeles for two and = half cents a
pound, but parties on the cars had to
pay. as / discovered, about such a
price as the passengers were charged
neal San Francisco.
ON TO THE SOUTH.
From Los Angeles to the Colorado
river only a freight train is run, and as
three or four passengers were all that
could be mustered on the day / came
through, that was not a matter of sur
prise. A nice, comfortable car, how
ever, is provided for the passengers,
aud even a sleeping-car, for that mat
ter. The Railroad Company have laid
a durable and safe steel-rsil track
through the Colorado desert, and how
the line is to be made to pay unless 1t
il carried $50 or 800 miles further, into
the mining regions of Arizona, is q
mystery to me. The daily outlay must
be very large and the revenue not q
twentieth part of it. The enterprise
and liberality which have gwen the
Pacific Coast q splendid road through
this dssolatS region, SO that the re-
sources and traffic of the country may
be developed, ought to meet with gen.
erous returns and be- set as marks Oi
commentator against some Of the
black scratches a grasping monopoly
has previously earned for itself. Who
knows whether the Pacific Railroad
Company may not. after all, be affected
at times by generous impulses; or
must one admit in the end that the car.
rying forward of the railroad to the
Colorado was only a deep-lsid scheme
nnder which the monopolizers' chains
might be more firmly riveted on the
public. Let us hope for the best, and
rejoice anew if the generous impulse
will last long enough to carry the line
forward a few hundred miles into
the great mining regions Of Southern
and Central Arizona.
GREAT DESERT.
Tho Colorado desert is not a waste oil
sand, as is usually supposed. but is
covered with water-worn boulders and
pebbles like an old river bed. AS the
home of the tree cactus, which seems
to make pretty good firewood, it may
be said to be . timbered region-with
some allowance, however, as to sparse
ness, say . fifth of q mile between one