Arizona citizen., 1879-05-16
'he EkcUrs'Onists at Aoncopa-SOmt Gentle Experience in Frontier Life
 4 CIonoUs Gay at the front.

sion is reported by telegraph, to have
 arrived in safety at the terminus this
 morning. They were thirteen car
 loads Of happy travellers who rolled
 swiftly along the "uplands of the
 Gila valley last night and awaked al
 sunrise 10 view the beautiful white
 (tenD walls of Maricopa. There were
 few ladies among them: but the
 great majority were gentlemen. and
 all were of the "tender-foot" variety
 as regards journeying into a new coun.
 try. They came from the upper tens
 Of Frisco, the solid burghers of Oak
 land and Sacramento, and the elegance
 of San Jose and Los Angeles. Not a
 man Of them but voted against the
 new constitution last Wednesday; and
 the telegraph was broken down by its efforts to keep them informed about stocks There was a dining car at
 tached to the train, well supplied with all the delicacies of the season; but
 what was one dining car to thirteen cars filled with people who were get ting up a new appetite every three hours? There great provision had
 been made both by individual excur- sionists and by the station keepers along the way. We'll known San Francisco brokers are reported, on good authority, to have been seen talk ing snack" between meals, from the recesses of pockets and portman- teaus. There was plenty of good water; at least, it is so supposed so, though no body inquired for any.
 Songs, stories, and general hilarity, whiled away the day spent in getting into lower California. But little at tention was paid to the points of interest along the road-the Tehacha- pi and the Santa Catalina, Los Ange- les and the Old Mission. Observation was reserved for Arizona. Last night the hotel men at Colton had reason to know that the dining car and the pri- vate lunches were inadequate to sup ply the demand for edibles and drink ables. In fact the crowd was hungry. But this morning when daylight had sufficiently advanced so that all got a good idea Of this glorious climate of Arizona thermometer I'D, and thel rush of feeling consequent upon al sight of the beautiful country about Stanwix and Gila Bend had somewhat there was a general revival of interest in the subject of breakfast " Breakfast at Marico2a," replied the polite train men. Seven hundred peo- pie waiting to breakfast at Maricopa! The intelligent reader who has toiled ! up to the old station, in a jerkey. at sun-up of a summer day, and taken his allowance of frijoles and black coffee, can imagine the seven hundred seeking morning meal in that vicin- ity. Now the agony commences. The larder is empty. The scanty supply of rations at the station is only suffi- !. cient for the modest stage travel. The excursionists are turned lose to enjoy themselves upon the desert, with plen- of nothing but town-lots and sunshine. They doubtless imagined that cruel fate had cast them with the Kearneyites on some royal sand-lots. We only regret that we were not present to witness the exquisite anguish of
 The wasting Of the famine,
 The burning of the tArizona) lever.
 We are rather pleased with this final and complete success of inc excursion. It is seldom that these tender plants from the "inside" get taste of iron tier life, and they will now have a faint of what some of us have lived and grown fat on in Arizona for five, ten and even twenty years.
 Now ye simple minded sons from the Golden State-fare ye well!-and when next ye come to Arizona, come to stay, and ye shall find food to eat and raiment to put on and a silver mine whereon to pillow your weary heads. You shall then see our rip bling mountain rills, grassy plains, dense forests, and mineral deposits that have already astonished so many. Be of good cheer, gentle traveller, for your trip to Maricopa will doubtless lend a moral and benefit.