The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-16

visit this was sll changed-the Mexi-
cans were the workers, the intelligent
whites the lOaieIs. | saw more white
men there with their hands in their
pockets than in any other place in
Arizona. 1t seldom or never rains in
the Santa Cruz Valley. The crops
are all irrigated Below the town
some distance the river sinks, and is
not seen again, but finds an outlet
into the ella River a long way Of,
but no one knows where. Water is
found anywhere IN Inc valley by
sinking wells.
The s. 2. Z. r. company have a
large water tank erected near the
town, holding 60,OC0 gallone. The
pumping is done by steam power.
Such a tank would water a large
section OF country for irrigating pur-
poses.
The City of Tucson itself IS unin-
terestiDg, except in the matters of Its
age; it does not boast Of any fine
buildings; it has no venerable caihe-
dral; it is purely and simply, With a
few exceptions, city of dried mud.
Seen from a distance, its lines OF
streets are like SO many mud walls.
Flat-roofed houses covered with clay.
When the wind rises the dried mud
fills your face and eyee; everywhere
mud floors, mud walIs, mud roofs
and mud stills. Alphabetically the
city has nothing TO boast of. The
residences OF some of the whites are
modern and make the irregular look
of the mud houses more hldeous by
comparison. Il was holy week for
the Catholic population in Tacson,
and the senoritas were cut in their
best. Here, as in every other city,
the ladies were the most devout W0I-
shippers. The cathedral was crowded
and q great number of the faithful
were on their knees IN the street out
side the building. Men, women and
children wore q look of earnesiness
that did them credit. The influence
OF the padre, or priest, ID very great
with these people; generally, they are
men of refinement and education,
aud always intellectually superior TO
the masses, who rarely read and
more rarely learn anything new.
The condition and appearance oil
Tucson Is a poor comment upon the
energy and progress of the residents,
as it wac 100 years ago. so it is nc"
and ever will be until her more
energetic nsighbors from the north
give new impulses 10 trade and pro-
gress. It ia curious to reflect shaI
America has grown to DO the mos
powerful nation on earth, while
Tucson has not grown at all, long
long before the Pilgrim Fathers LANDED
this was a city, it is the same to-day
and such city. True, the railroad
has mada q loom for the place, bu
it is already away past it, pointing Il
FL Paso, and tina Rio Grande, it vii
only be way station and drop int
the old sluggish groove that thre'
centuries have made tor il.
There is 4 beautiful spot On tht
banks of the Santa Cruz. close to tht
town, where q flour mill is erected
and where the Yaqui Indian womer
do their washing; here they pounC
their clothes on the rocks to cleans
them and use soap root to remove th
dirt. The river itself is about tn
siza of City Greek, in August. If al
abundance OF wafer could be obtainet
to cultivate the Santa Cruz Valley
there is no finer land ia the worl
than can be found there.
Four newspapers are published
Two in English and two in the Spanisl
language IN Tucson. There are som
large mercantile houses who d.
large trade, and as it is only abou
sixty miles 10 the Mexican line, ;
large trade is done with Sonora
Tombstone is si1ty-fve miles away
Everybody is going; every third MAJ
you meet is going to open 6 saloon
there. The railroad is now within
twenty-five miles OF this new e
Dorado. All the mines are reported
rich, and great expectations are In
dulged in. In the meantime, thi
railroad is doing a fine business Car
Syirg supplies and passengers-anC
the land SHARKS of Tucson are frantic
in their praises of the future of thu
4 city and are willing to sell at grea
sacrifice go as to realize far more i'm
portant operations IN the mines.
| had the pleasure OF sleeping on
under the poor mans teut-the starry
canopy of heaven-tbe second nigh
OF my stay in this wor id-iamed place
and of all the hoRling dogs, l neyel
| heard any to compete with them; 6
moro bob-tailed, ring-tsiled lot o
ours were never seen.- The only dOgl
that can beat them are the dogs @
Greenland. These dogs, report says
can howl hole In 90 iceberg IL
one night" As in al Mexican
towns, the poor, patient donkey, buvioi
or iackass, as you please to call him,
does the hard work. Many of them
come into town SO loaded that you dc
not know what moving mass it Is at g
distance; the poor little bsasts seem
almost buried up with their bur
lhene. The Mexicans make bsauti-
ful bread, and serve it up in all kinds
OF fancy shapes; they seem happy
and contented, dress pretty we'll and
are oleanly looking. The white rsai
dents say they are treecherous and
unreliable. l think they can say the
ZANE OF some OF the Eogiish speaking
residents in the game locality.
Gambling tables were IN fall blast,
and times we're said 20 be good, bat
supplies of all kinds Tere very dtaI;
horse feed very expensive. Ten
dbllaTs per day was asked me for the
use of team. l paid it, I could do
10 better. Before Chinsman takes
your shirt to wash You must deposit
the ''tCo -bittee" in advance. All new
corners are locked upon with suspi-
cion until found out. South Of
Tucson, ten miles, in the Santa Cruz
Valley, is.the. fine old cataedreloi San
Xavier del bac, finished in 1892, was
commenced in 1865, on the site OF
building that dsusyed. The Pspoga
Indians have village here, and Gull
tiva!e the rich bottom lands around
their settlement. The architectural
character of the pile is Moorish aLd
Byzantine, 8 portion OF one OF the
towers Is unfinished. 1t Is conslTuC-l
ted OF stone aud brick, covered with
a hard cement; the roof Is OF he
same cement, very hard and durable;
the cutters for conducting OF the
rain are indsnted in the walls There |