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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-04-06
YUMA, ARIZONA, SATURDAY APRIL 6, 1878

fusion by the most superficial OBJ.
server; the scientist has classified
them in great variety.
Just as not all of the desert is a
waste of sand, so is not all of it fit
for agriculture. Rocks and noun
tainS here assert themselves in
about the same proportion that
they do in other countries. But
these are far from valueless; this
fact is being daily demonstrated,
as men begin to realize that the
desert offers something worth
looking for. Quartz mills and
smelling furnaces have already
been erected on the desert mines
of Ivanpah, Resting Springs and
elsewhere on its western edge.
Silver, lead and copper occur there
in ores rich enough to excite the
wonder of miners. Asbestos of
remarkably long fibre is found
near the San Gorgonio Pass. Gold
occurs on its eastern edge in guam
titles great enough to have caused
the celebrated Colorado River eX-
citement of 1861; and mines of it
are still worked at Chimney Peak
and Carga Muchacho. Lead, sill
yer and copper also occur as abund-
antly on this side, as Oh the west
ern side of the desert. These
facts give credibility to reports
of rich discoveries in mid-desert,
made by prospectors too poor to
develop mines at a distance from
natural waters. Immense depOS-
its of pure salt have been diScOv-
cred by railroad surveyors and
other explorers. The railroad COM
pany is now endeavoring to build
up a trade in supplying salt to the
Arizona silver-millS. The north
ern arm of this desert furnishes
beds of boraX so large that the
markets of the world are glutted
with it; so large that their pro-
duce reduced the price from fifty
cents per pound to eight to twelve
in a few years. BOraX occurs in
quantity in the vicinity of Seven
Wells and other points nearer
Yuma, whence beautiful crystals
of it have been Obtained. Gyp-
sum is a common product of the
desert, widely diffused; fakes of
selenite are found in nearly all
the caions coming in from the
West, while great masses of this
lovely mineral are found at many
points. Pumice-StOne of excellent
quality is found on the railroad
and in many other places; thou
sands of tons of it lie piled in
masses; the engineers are now
using it for polishing their loco
motives. Sulphur is found in
banks rivallng those of northern
California in size and purity. All
Yuma remembers the beautiful
specimens of it that Dan COnnOr
used to bring in. The southern
arm of the desert, running down
into Sonora, has beds of soda from
which vessels were loaded, on
their return trips from Guaymas
to Europe; similar beds are found
in other portions of it. Thermal
springs, sulphur and chalybeate,
occur in MANY parts, as do those
of warm, bubbling, medicated
mud; the Indians well know their
healing properties in all forms of
rheumatism, and of skin and ve-
nereal diseases. Potter's clay is
enough; while decompo-
sitiOn of feldspathic rocks has
given the desert beds of kaolin,
extensive enough to rival those
of Dresden or SevreS. But we
must have recOunted enough of
the deserts resources, to satisfy
4 L
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raphy-79O00 miles; England second, 75,-
600. The telephone is American, as was
the telegraph We give the world the
steamboat, the telegraph and the tele-
phone; England gave us the railroad.
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than this world has ever realized;
twilight bathes all in cheerful
tints that distance blends into a
soft purple, never to be forgotten.
Distant mountains cut the pure
air with sharp outlines that add
much to the scenic effect. The
sun rises on a cloudless sky in a
flood of rosy light; it sinks in
golden glory. Every rain brings
forth galleta and other grasses to
show that the desert is not an ab-
sOlute barren; Spring adorns it
with flowers of delicate beauty
and of remark able fragrance. Our
"azucena" is only the original,
uncultivated tuberOse, and many
more of these desert flowers will
yet be developed into choice ex-
Otics for eastern lighthouses. The
lover of nature will be pleased
with the variety and novelty of
desert Flora; the utilitarian will
be surprised to learn their many
uses.
The desert is not a solitude; life
abOunds in it; beasts, birds, rep
tiles and insects occur i'll quantity
surprising to one who knows the
scarcity of surface water. Rab-
bits, hares and coyotes seem to be
the largest animals, but chip
monks, gophers and moles appear
to be most abundant; the ground
is honey-combed with their homes.
All of them are found as far as
twenty, or more, miles from any
known water. In other parts of
California, the presence of quails
indicates proximity of water; this
is not so on the desert, where
large fiOcks are found very far
from water. The buzzing of honey
gathering flies or bees, lulls to
sleep him who reposes under the
palO-verde or iron wood. Mock
ing-birdS and other songSterS en-
liven the vicinity of water and
ruby throated humming birds
suck its flowers. Most of these
desert denizens are of nocturnal
habits; the hot sun drives them
to shade by day. Ravens and
crows seem to live on lizards,
which in turn live on flies and
ants that are abroad only by day
light. But on moonlight nights
the others turn out in vast num-
bers. Reptiles are numerous, but
we have never heard of any one
being hurt by them. A tortoise
is common here, which grows
among rocks and sand to a weight
of twenty-five pounds, and is eat
en- by some Indians.
The winterclimate of the desert
is good; the thermometer rarely
falls to 400 and rarely reaches SO0.
The air is pure and dry as that of
high mountains, while its low
elevation Gn some parts below
sea-leveD makes it less rarefied-
it has more oxygen to the same
bulk, and no gasping is caused to
the invalid with half a lung. In
summer the heat is high, but dry
and not oppressive; rapid evapor-
alton keeps the skin cool. Per-
spiratiOn is constant; this benefits
in whom unimpeded
functions of the skin may relieve
Diseases of kidneys or lungs.
A man who has lived out on the
desert is always glad to go back,
if he can be assured of comfort
and company. Its charms are in
describable, but most men suc-
cumb to them as soon as they get
off their guard against imaginary
dangers.
TIE United STATES stands first in tPlep-
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-04-06
A Defence of the Desert.

It has become a custom to look
upon the desert, lying between
the Colorado river and the Coast
mountains of California, as upon
an abomination of desolatiOn-ut-
terly without value, void of beau
ty, and incapable of supporting
any kind of life. This impression
was heightened in the mind of the
former traveller to Arizona, by the
birds-eye view of the desert af-
forded him from the mountains
at its western edge; the clear at
mosphere increases the range of
vision; altitude and distance abb
sorb detail and blend color, till the
desert appears a silent, lifeless
monotone of russell gray. He
braced himself up to repel the awe
with which this view invariably
inspired him; traditions of the
Sahara, of caravans dying of thirst
or buried by sand-storms, and a
sense of danger, closed his mind
to all appreciatiOns of the deserts
peculiar beauties, or observation
of its value to man. He hailed
with glad relief the green willows
of the Colorado, and on his return
to civilization, added his testimo-
ny to other travellers tales about
the horrors of the desert. The
modern traveller crosses it by rail:
he strikes it after dark, turns into
sleeping-car, gets an early break
fast at Yuma-and he too adds to
the stories of desert perils Men
have died on this desert, of thirst
and heat; but so do they die in
New York State of hunger and
cold. The man without water dies
as surely in a sand-drift, as he
without food does in drifts of
snow. The latter make a blind
ing, leafless, lifeless, monotouous
desert of white, by far more fatal
to man than is San Diego's desert
of sand, with its varying tints
and invigorating air.
The perfect health of station
keepers, railroad men and other
inhabitants of the desert. amply
proves its climatic suitability to
mans residence. To carry mails
and passengers, it became neces-
sary to dig wells at proper inter-
walls along the stage road; palata-
bic water was found at depths
varying from twenty to sixty feet.
The railroad company has bored
wells ard was rewarded
by a copious flow of water.
Agriculture has been tried, no.
tably at Toros; fine crops of grain,
vegetables, fruits and alfalfa have
repaid the application of water
and labor to the soil of the desert.
There are stretches of shifting
apparently as worth
less and extensive, as were those
around San Francisco; these may
never be reclaimed-nor will those
to the northwest of Guadalupe, in
Santa Barbara county. There are
great plains, called "playas," of a
deep, unctuous, black soil, as heavy
and rich as the adobe lands around |
Every one who has
traversed them after the rain, will |
recollect the masses of mud that
clung to his wheels. Where irri-
cation is not possible, the date
palm, the paper-fibre-yucca and
other desert-loving plants will re-
ward mans enterprise. Growing
Of dates here is yet an untried
experiment, whose success is pred
icated upon results obtained on
the deserts Of Asia and Africa.
The manufacture of paper-stOck
from yucca is an established in
iustry, employing many men and
machinery. Over
Inn
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-04-06

ACTING ASSISTANT SURGEON r. T. BURR
has been ordered to report for duty at
Fort Whlpple. His departure from Ehr-
enberg leaves good opening there for
doctor
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Boots and Shoes, Clothing,
And is constantly and regularly recei
Ing fresh California products, consisting
Butter, Cheese, Bacon
Ham, Onions, Beans
Barley Potatoes, Corn,
Wheat, Corn Meal Buckwhe.
Flour. California and Oregon Flour,
Cutting & Cos. Canned Fruits, Vegetable
etc. etc. etc.
All of which is offered at prizes which
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-22

ANOTHER EscAPADE.-Last evening
two more OF our jail birds fitted from
their cage A little before six o'clock
ne iailer came in with three Territorial
convicts whom be had had at work
during the day He locked them III
the south side corridor. with other
prisoners occupying cells on that side.
aud CAV. them their supper. While
they were partaking of their repast, he
left to get his own. intending to return
lock them in their cells for the night
While he was gone, Quinn, one of the
convincts who recently escaped ia COM
pany with Shay, Lynch and Sullivan.
one of the two recaptured. and by thu
way. under sentence for five years, in
concert with Lawrence. who was com
mitted to await the action of the next
Grand Jury on charge of grand
larceny, unlocked the corridor door
letting them out into the ,iler's
apartment, from which they gained
access to the yard outside. In the
yard they obtained Il short ladder long
enough when placed on a box lying
beside it TO admit of their reaching the
top of the wall from which they
descended into the alley back of the
brewery. Once on the alley they cut
and run ap by the brewery On Mill
street. from Mill aross to Main. and up
Main TO the woods ON the hill above
the school house, and made good their
escape for tho present.
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FIGHTISG THE SURF. - Time was
when the tide flowed all the way across
our town site from Plummer's cove 10y
the Occidental Hotel and re- entering by
Yeslcr's Mill. The steady dispositions
of sawdust through a long series of
years have gradually shut off the tide
and made block after block of real
estate out Of what used to be salt
iuarsh, until now Colman's sawdust
carts are bluffing the tide at the north
line of Jackson street The fight has
been going on for year past, but the
water being deep and the current un-
restrained. with the advantage rather
on the side of the tide. The beach for
many yards along is becoming Uttered
with the floating debris. but time and
perseverance will gradually tell, and
jackson street be added to our thor
onghfsres. the same as Washington.
Mill and Main
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An Undeniable Truth.

You deserve TO suffer, and if you lead
miserable, unsatisfactory life in this
beautiful world, it is entirely your own
fault and there is only one excuse for
yoa-your unreasonable prejudice and
skepticism, which has killed thousaa add.
Personal knowledge and common sense
reasoning will soon show you that
Green's August Flower will cure you of
Liver Complaint. or Dyspepsia. with
all its miserable effects, such as sick
headache. palpitation of the heart, sour
stomach. hsbitual costiveness. dizziness
of the head. nervous prostitution. low
spirits. &c. Its sale now reach every
town on the Western Continent and
not Druggist but will tell you Of its
wonderful cures. You can buy Sam
pie Bottle for 10 cents. Three doses
will relieve you
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Show THEM THE REALITY. - We
want our railroad, and must have it,
but the quickest way t. get it is to in
duce foreign capital. We know of no
better or quicker way to get it here
than to show to Eastern capitalists our
commercial city and surroundings f.
L. Glover's birds-eve view of Seattle is
q truthful and faithful representation
of it, and If published aud properly cir
culated IN the Eastern cities will do
more towards accomplishing this end.
than ten times the amount it cost to
publish the picture, spent in any other
way. Ii is y merltsrious work. Any
parties in business here would do well
To think twice before refusicg to sub.
scribe to the enterprise. as the publica-
ton Of it depends wholly on the smount
subscribed
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.Y- As general thug our country
store keepers located in the White
River Valley and other agricultural
districts have found the Siwashes
among their best customers. When
money was very plenty these aborigines
usually picked up considerable loose
"chickamon" wherewith 10 purchase
the necessaries of life and crafty their
childish fancies. ALAS for the poor
Indian" the financial blight has nipped
them rs the late frost nips the June
bug. and the country merchants in
form us they arc among the most woe
full complainers of hard times. Coma
away sun. halo chickamon." is their
constant cry. Many of them. we are
told. are out of every article of food
save fish. A morsel of flour, even. is a
luxury they have not tasted for
months. To go upon their respective
reservations and stay there as they
should do. appears to be The only
prospect of relief for them.
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DAILY INIELLIGENCER.
Saturday, June 90, 1878.

ALL Busy. - Eo:wi'hsta' :;a2 the
cry of hard times there spPr ~ 10 De
no dearth of employment fo' c'mpe-
tent and willing hands. There are not
nv cutie a third 81 many logging camps
- one,a,ion this year as last, but still
thsre does not appear TO be less mum
her Of workers employed. We can
conut ND host of men about the Sound
within the circle of our acquaintances,
who depend upon this kind of employ
msnt for livelihood. and yet cannot
call to mind one who is at present Idle,
at least from choice. Frequently If
late we have known boss loggers" to
come to town in quest of help. and was
obliged to leave without attaining the
object of their visit. 4 few days since
a large camp was broken up on account
of the claim on which it was located
having been worked out, and We be-
lieve that every one of the nine or ten
men thus thrown out of work have In
this short time secured employment in
ether camps. Certainly this does not
augur badly for the future. During
the fall months. Seattle reaps her prin-
cipal harvest of business from this class
of workers. who then flock into town
with the proceeds Of their summers
work, and certainly from present indi-
cations we shall receive as large re-
turn from this quarter next fall as
usual. The present pinch" in logs
ha. decreased the number of camps
forced out irresponsible men, whose
paper has heretofore been so generally
hoatcd in lieu of cash concentrated
the business into fewer hands. bnt not
much decreased the product in the
aggregate, or the number Of hands en-
ployed. Just now, there is dearth of
money, and as q general thing nothing
but paper can be obtained for work.
However. this is in almost every in
stance. first-c Pay day will be
ushered in in month or two more, and
cash will naturally come into circula-
tion again in place Of notes. due bills,
etc. This will entirely change the gen
eral condition OF matters as with our
logging interests. so with all other
branches of industry.
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TRIP AROUND THE HoRS.-Tl

TRIP AROUND THE HoRS.-The L.
S. surveying schooner Earnest, under
command of Capt. Letournan. sailed
from Cape Henry on the Atlantic sea
board. on the long and perilous voyage
around the Horn. tor Puget Sound.
which she accomplished safely, and
arrived in our harbor last Thursday,
having been not quite eight months on
the way. She arrived down near Cape
Horn on the 2lst of January, where
she encountered severe gale. She
rounded the Horn twice and was driven
back each time. AT last she succeeded,
and from the first of February to the
fourth Of March she experienced con-
slant aud severe gales of wind, arriv-
ing at Valparaiso, on the twelfth of
March and at San Francisco on May
twelfth. She left San Francisco for the
Sound on May twenty-seventh, but
experienced such severe weather out
side the bar. she was obliged to return,
leaving again on the thirtieth. and ar
rived at Seattle on June twentieth,
stopping at Neah Bay and Port Town
send She is very staunch little craft,
being composite built-iron frame
planked with 81 zach oak, and was
built expressly for the surveying SER
vice. by W. G. Woodall & Co, at Bal
timore, in 1875. Her cabin is elegantly
furnished with walnut and white cedar,
and has every possible convenience for
officers and crew. She will take the
place Of the Yukon, under command OF
Capt. Cults.
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Tlvoli Beer Hall.

We have received per City of Panama
q cargo of GERMAN IMPORTED BEER /;
also, sardines. caviare. Swiss and Linn
burger Cheese. LIMBURGEn CHEESE
only fifty cents apiece. We also have
Schmeig's and Steilacoom Lager Beer
Oh dramght and the celebrated Bud
wsiser. Milwaukee. Boca and St.
Louis Lager Beer in pint and
quart bottles. Also all kinds Of lunches
to order.
HESS & CZARsKE., PROP's.
Occidental Sqsare.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.
OCCIDENTAL. HOTEL

NStiDENI AL HOIEL-
James Willie. A Dumas and wife. Mrs
Taylor and son. Blskeiy; Eric Salorn,
Nm Turnbuk, Seabeck; c c Hewitt.
1 + McElroy. E ID Warbass. Olympia;
. II Goodwin, Victoria; R S Weston,
Steilacoom; ID A Whitman aud wife.
la Conner; VIM Hayter, Joseph Rouke,
'oesley Ninemire, Sesbeck: Sam Howe
and wife. city; Mrs Shaw. Victoria; W
ii Strickland. Agent Harverly Mins-
trels; l. c Holloway. J r Brent, San
Francisco; WIN Pickering, Muckilteo;
Wm { DInsmore. A Emerson. Mrs Nc
lntosh. Olympia; Joseph Summers,
Rellingh2r. Bay.
NEW ENGLAND HOTEL.
CT Collier. w f Bowman, Canada;
K G Smith. White River. ID Lonefrl-
low. Port Gamble: 2 F Greahee and
wife. b Z Law. John OBrien. Vic,oris;
l. 5 Mcclure. New Taccms; VT Car
ter. Milton; E II Baxter, Falls CITY;
John Hayward, Yakima; l. Thatcher,
Port Ludlow.
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Religious Services Tomorrow.

BAPTIST CHURcH-Fourth street. be.
tween James and Chfr-v. Pastor. Rev
J. \. With.
CATHOLIC CHURcH-Corner Fourth
and Washington streets. Rev. F. Y.
Prefoutaine.
oSGREGATIoSAL CHURCH. Second
street. between Spring and Seneca
streets. Pastor, Rev. j. F. Ellis.
EPISCOPAL CHURcH-Northwest cor
ner of Third and Mill streets.
NJ Z. CHCRCH-Second street. be-
tween Cherry and Coluu.bia. Rev. l..
Dillon. d. d., pastor.
PREsBYTERIAN CHURCH - Third
street, corner of Madison.
THE BROWN METHODIST CHuRcH-
Second street. between Madison and
Spring. Pastor, Rev. d. Bagley.
Usual hours of divine service in tn.
several churches at ] / A. II. and $50 p.
u. Sabbath schools meet at 1890 P. NJ.
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The ATANUN VALLEY, says an ex

change, is from two TO seven miles in
width. and about twenty-five miles
long. A stream by this name forms the
boundary line of the reservation on the
north. Yakima City is situated at its
junction with the Yakima. 1t is u
tiourishing little town of about two
hundred inhabitants. supporting three
stores. gristmill. a saloon. n livery
stable, hotel. one shoe shop. one har-
ness shop. tuo drug stores. three black
smith shops. and one brewery; aud We
are sadly in need OF tin shop,
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II. O'CONNOR. Surgeon Chiropodist'
removes Corns. Warts. Moles. Bunions
and ingrowing Toe or Club Nails.
without pain or ache. No acids or in
furious chemicals used.
Office at Occidental Hotel. Will
visit residences by leaving addresses at
the hotel office j15-1w
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EXCURSION TO OLYMPIA. - Tickets
for the round trip. not transferable. 81
The fsvoritc steamer North Pacirie will
leave Seattle for Olympia and way
ports, on Wednesday afternoon. July
81. at o'clock returning early on
the morning of the 5th. Tickets can
be secured Ivy calling early on
w. III. PUMPHREY. Agent.
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HAvHRLY's MISsTRELs - Mr.. w.
IL. Strickland, advance agent of Ha-
yerly's Minstrels, came over from
Victoria on the North Pacific yester-
day. and left in the night for Portland.
This troupe consist, of "A performers,
aud is spoken of az Que of the best that
has visited the coast. having played
eight weeks in San Francisco to
crowded houses. They will appear
here on Monday ana Tuesday nights,
July LIST and Cd.
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PlcSIc.-A note from Renson states
tnat some of the young folks Of that
burg are getting up picnic for the
4th Of July, to close with q ball in the
evening in ID. A. Parkers Hall. y
general Invitation IS extended 10 the
Seattle folks aud other neighborhcods
90 pArticipate.
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CALL ON j. A. MCPHEE for Cigars,
Tobacco. Pipes and Cutlery. He keeps
the best supply in the city and sells at
the cheapest rates. Customers may be
supplied at either wholesale or retail.
Stand in s. Kenny's merchant tailoring
establishment, Commercial street. Sc
attic, w. T. myl7 diff
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RNLRoAp SURVEY. - The prelimi-
nary survey of the new inshore route
for the railroad around the bay was
completed yesterday. The final loca-
ton Of the same will proceed to-day
and during mex. week. Work on the
grade and piling will probably not
commence until after the first of the
month.
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CHANGE OF BAsE.-Ws are informed
that the Wenat went up Sound yester-
day for the purpose of transferring
Balls large logging camp outfit, sup
plies. teams. etc, to the Skagit, where
i. will hereafter operate. The Wenat
purposes this trip to proceed as far up
the Skagit as practicable.