Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-01-22

'o the heAlcan UoVernment represen-
 tative. Invitations had been issued
 to many people, and fully two hun
 dred gentlemen were present at the temporary depot at Punta de Arenas at about Q Q. m. Three flat cars had
 been provided with benches, and guards placed On the sides to prevent accidents. Among the passengers I noticed the following officials: Don Luis Torres, Governor of Sonora General Otero, Vice Governor; J. NJ.
 Maytoreno, Prefect of Guaymas; Car los Ortlz, member of Congress; Jose Espein, President of the Ayantamiento und MT. Moreno, official Government engineer of the railroad. Amongst the railroad officials were Messrs. Robert R. Symon, the promoter of the road; MT. Gardiner, Superinten- dent and Mir. Morly, Chief Engineer, as well as many other employees. Messrs. c. w. Sturtevan:, Cummis- siouer of the San Francisco Board of Trade, MT. FelIZardo Torres, manager of the Hermosillo mint and MT. Geo. LeBrun, of the Alamos mint, were also present. The train started at a rate Of about six or seven miles, and a inc opportunity was enjoyed by all on board to see what kind of work had been performed. After leaving Punta Arenas the road passes up and nround hill and thence through an- ClheI hill which has been blasted out to make way for the track. Further on where the ground was very low a deep stone wall has been built, on the top of which the track is laid. This is very solid work, in some places reaching a height of over ten feet, and don't thInk that there is any danger of washouts here during the rainy season. Then comes about a mile of trestle work, through very shallow bay, which contains hardly more than three feet of water, except in one place where it is pretty deep. After that we get into the average Sonora country, mesquite bushes and cacti, with sandy ground. The end of the ten kilometers were soon reached and we saw the last few rails which were needed to fill the distance laid down and spiked. Then Messrs. Gardiner, Moreno and Ortiz made little speeches respecting the event, and on the home trip lunch in which champagne play ed the first role was indulged in. The road from the depot to the end of that last blessed kilometer, one of the em- ployes told me, is fairly strewn with empty champagne bottles. On the night of the 2d Dall was given at the residence of Mir. Bartning by the Guaymas merchants to Messrs. Robt. Symon, Ortiz and the Governor, at which the elite of this ancient and antedeluvian seaport were present. It lasted until very early hour on the Sd. The toilettes of the ladies were truly magnificent. It is a note worty fact that those of the higher classes here, the younger members es- pecially, speak English, and Tn many instances excellently well. This re- mark applies as much to the senoritas as to the male portion of the commu- pity. The road is to be built with all possible dispatch, and will probably reach Hermosillo before the begin nIng of March. Mir. Morly has gone to Tucson to engage laborers, under stand. l cannot say that the company pays very munifcent wages, and Sl.25 to $2 day with board, is the highest
 have heard of. The first is the pay of unskilled labor and the second that of spikers. In the offices SlOO a month seems to be the ultima thule.
 Guaymas Is a very dull little place, and cannot possibly improve for some time to come yet. The improvements however, will be gradual and little observed by those iahabiting here. But let one now cugnizant with It leave it, say for year or two, and let him return after Guaymas is con- nected by rail with Fl Paso and New Orleans and Hermoslllo and Tucson, and he will see what regular mercan- tile communication can do for place that is in proper location.
 1 had the pleasure the other day or shaking hands with MT Splder, who was formerly ticket agent al Tucson, during that soul-destroy- ing punster Cash's absence. He will soon return 10 Tucson, be tells me, on private business.
 
 The ice machine here has proved rebellious ever since Its arrival from San Francisco, and the Guayamite had 10 content himself with water cooled lu ollas all through the summer. But on tue New Years Day, when 1t was windy and chilly, and ice would have been al & discount anywhere, the ma chine condescended to freeze its wa ter. If it remsins in this happy frame ot mind, possibly ice may become known here, as well as mixed drinks, during the summer, to the delight of the bsrkeep and hummer Cthis is poetry).
 You have probably heard of the tragedy which happened at the Hotel