The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-13
C. R. s. AGAIN.
All the Way to Tucson, Arizona.
CHAPTER I.

SALT LAKE Cry, April 10. 80.
Editors Herald:
Sergeant McGillivraY, Of the signal
service, this city. once told me that
We had a climate peculiar 10 tlis lo-
oality, and I nearly thought go when
fairly on the G. P. R. R. After
leaving cur valleys We found the road
dusty most of the way westward in
Nevada. The cold weather had
been as severe in the Ssgebrush state
as in Utah; bovine and equine car
cases line the road on each side, a
mourniul commentary on the effects
OF a hard winter. Just now Nevada
Is dull, no boom prevails. Mining
interests are q. discount; it is
"duller nor hoe, and getting more
so daily.
The Humboldt sink has almost
sunk. The very dry season of last
year has made the north bed of the
lake dusty plain; there is, however,
more snow on the mountains than
last year, but not so much as we have
hal in Utah. Westward from Wads-
worth this ia al changed; the snow is
piled up along the sheds, and the
houses in some places are almost
buried. When at Truckse it was Il
above zero, and at RockliD, on the
west side of the Sierras, 1t was go;
but California is a month behind
other years. Strawberries and green
peas in March do not not obtain this
year.
Jack Frost has treated the eucs-
lyptus trees very badly; Thousands Of
them have been frozen this last win
ter. Many other of the botanical
wonders are badly used up; prospects
for good crops are very encouraging
all over the state OF California; every
inch of rain adds millions of dollars
in value to the cereals. a total fall
ure of the wheat crop fer Que year
would bankrupt the state, for the
product of the mines in the foothills
is not quite so much ID it used to be,
and Callfornians have to lock to agri-
culture as the main prop OF the state
in the future.
The newspapers sre beginning,
with commendable good sense, to
point out the fact that home manu-
features must receive more attention
in fact, the conditions of trade are
undergoing many changes; five.
cent pieces are no longer sueered at;
the day of small things has come to
wonderland. Poor Kearney and
others have been blamed for some OF
the causes of dull times, but this is only
talk. As far as his railing against
some fragrant abuses ia concerned. he
was right but when communistic
ideas were launched forth be showed
himself a lupatic. The movement
has just now got its quietus. As a
rule, those who rail the most against
abuses are very poor tools to cor
rect them. The glaring fact
concerning California's dull times
is that everything has been run at
very high pressure, and they
have now got to come down to
economical habits OF life, more
in consopance with agricultural
communities, although San Francisco
is the cheapest city 10 live in l know
of. Very few persons save money,
and when they do it is rushed
into stocks; in some instances men
become rich but the msiority are
cursing their luck and themselves for
disposing of their savings so foolishly.
1t has been stated that $50, 600. 900
in capital has been frightened away
by KeaIneyism, but it is more the
lack of good opportunities for invest
ment than a result of Sand Lot
TRADES, in my opinion. The fact that
so many men are out of work in San
Francisco is easily accounted for
when the extraordinary number OF
emigrants arriving daily is considered.
Most all of them try to stay in San
Francisco, and this always renders
employment difficult to obtain.
The Chinese question will lose its
significance when white men will be
content to work for lower wages and |
be just as economical as the China
man is; in past years The Celestials
were very welcome 10 come, but now
they are welcome to go. They are q
cute, shrew1 nation. They sub
scTibed S25. 900 to the Herald Relief |
Fund-and brand their cigars with |
an Irishman kicking out Chinaman
with the added inscription "The
Chinese must CO." Their factories
are all running, but many of those
conducted by white men are closed.
There is one place where the Chinese
are indispensable and that is on the
desert portions OF the great G. P. r. r.
Here they seem content; very few
white men would stay q week in hot
weather at some of the places but
John has very little ambition, and
needs less oxygen; he can stand it
where white men can net; il is in
just such places that he seems NEST
useful.
Speaking of the G. P. R. R. must
net omit 10 mention the beautiful
depot Just erected at Sacramento and
also the ponderous ferry boat SoJaRO
that transfers the trains from Benicia
to Port Costa, thus saving q distance
of fifty miles and landing the passen-
gers from the east in San Francisco
six hours earlier than they arrived
before the completion OF the ferry
steamer.
Seated comfortably in your Car you
run gently on to the steamer without
a Jar and in feg minutes you are
again on terra frma. This magnifi
cent vessel is 424 feet long, 116 feet
wide, 3,541 tons burthen. She has
carrying capacity of "a passenger
cars OF the largest class, or 48 freight
cars with locomotive. She ia in every
way credit to the gigantic company
which does up all its work with
admirable completeness: safety,
security and celebrity is the watchword
l started to tell about the Southern
Pacific road to Tucson but will resume
the subject in chapter II.
G. r. SAVAGE,
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