Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-03-13
GUAYpAS.
Irregular MaII--A Steady Going and Growing Seaport-GeoEraPhioal Ad- xantages = The Yaquis - Various Items
Gr.vNAs March s.

everyone IS anxious to get railway communication quickly with the States. which will at least do awaJ with the evil of receiving letters six months after one ought 10 get them. The postmaster of Guaymas, though we have not received a letter fla rue son for over week, even II there are weekly carriers, seems to believe that he had better prepare himself for the event Of a connection with Tucson, and he told one, two or three days aqo that he was going 10 order a 4S- box office from San Francisco. II mails keep coming as irregular as they have been of late, l nave my doubts whether those boxes will ever contain more than one letter at tune.
 The old Padre who runs the post office is one If those easy going old chaps of the 'quien sabe style, whom nothing perturbates, and when busy crowd of GringOs rush in for their mail he dashes plenty oi cold water on them by tue way he llits hls hands and removing his everlasting ." hoia de mais from his mouth, tellS luem AuC las S"'
 venido; DOT que? Quien sabeE You may be mad, but the old fellow IS so cool. and smiles so innOcently, thai you can't help recollecting Bret Harte's heather Chinee, and away you walk, trusting in the next mall, which does not come either. Some how or other, though the letter mall Is so dreadfully demOraliZed, the pa per mail, comes by stage, Is generally punctual, and it is seldom that the readers of the CITIZEN are disappolnt. ed in getting their weekly budget oi news from Arizona and the States through your valuable paper. As to the ether newspapers of Tucson, we never, or may be hardly ever, get a glance at them. The Star l have seen once. but the other, which l believe IS called the Journal, is completely non est here.
 I would have waited few days be- fore writing you again, as GuaymHs just now is as quiet as Rlp van Wrinkles ceIc brated retreat, put l happened to be shown by al least 20 irate Amerlcans, a letter in the San Francisco Chronicle, dated Guaymas, January is, which was headed " Life in Guaymas-sOme of the peculiar bePuties of sunny seaport; what the sea captain says; it's baseless claim to be a rival of San Francisco; position, climate, and people al against It. If you have the space l should like you 10 reproduce that senseless article in the CITIZEN along with this letter. The people Cf Tucson will then judge hv former letters in the CITIZEN, and that ignorant, prejudiced and stupid communication to the Chronicle, who fairly represents true facts about Guaymas, for or against its people, advantages, eli mate and what not. 1 clam that Guaymss is not and never can become a rival of San Francisco; that the far seeing people of Guaymas have never entertained this idea nor expressed 1t, though some enthusiastic and sangu- inc newspapers abroad-for which Guaymas Is not to be arraigned have said SO. Guaymas Is content to fol- low steady but daily improving road rad to the commercial prosperity which her geographical position en- titles her tO. and all the enemies she has in the world will not deter her from obtaining a place among the i'm portant seaports of the world in few years l. is all Idle jalk for the Chronic ,e's pendent to tell us that the heat on the first of November nelc WIS equal 70 that of June ID The Eastern States, because DO one who ha, travelled or pOs~Css s au atom ol common sense will believe it. There are no hotter States than the EasterI States in the world during the summer season, and the cases of sunstrOke re- ported every year at New York l Philadelphia and Baltimore are ap' | paiing. They arc a true test as t' heat, and l can safely say, to apply | that test to Guaymas, that none eve ! occur in Sonora, whether in June O. l November. The winter here, con | tra .ily tO the Sea Captain of tn, l Chronicles correspondent, Is not ho l at all, though 1t does not freeze, bu | on the contrary a very pleasant season ! such as Southern California b cast O l The heat in the summer Is really yer, great-probably as hot as Tucson but what of that? Is it not the sam case in many ports of the world? Ar not Alden, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong kong, Singapore, Vera Cruz, Callao Panama, and many others, as hot a Guaymls, and may be hotter, but Ina 1t ever deterred ship owners and mer chants, the first Co send their ship aud the second their goods to thos ports when good freight or heav. sale were tO be accomplished. Nay to follow that sea captain into his pc culiar line of reasoning, dId he eve hear of a captain, whose salary va even moderately good, to refuse to 2 to hot port, be it that his motive were fear for his own comfort or phll anthropic notions in regard to hi crew.
 Guaymas is positively nearer | Australia than San Francisco, and O. that head will certainly, as soon as tn railroad connects with the America system, obtain a great deal of tn traffic now passing through San Fran cisco; but this and whatever other ad vantages she may obtain are yet so ia from making her a rival of San Fran cisco that he who enteTtains the ide and gives it abroad shows lack of com mon sense and brains.
 That remark about the stagnan waters of the bay, which are at 9 degrees of heat, is on a par with tn other accurate remarks of Sonora. The tide here has a rise and fall O four feet, which, though not yer, much, is considerably more than il lots of places in lhe States. As n sewers run into the bay, the tide.I quite sufficient 10 renew the water which is anything but stagnant an, foul, but on the contrary. clear an remarke bly free of impurities.
 There is a little inaccuracy als with reference to "' SonOra's stale ment of vegetables, which l will pu down to the writer's ignorance, O short stay, or credulity. He mus have been here very little If he Ina tailed to obiaIn cauliflower, greel