Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-29
GUAYMAS LETTER.
A Ride hy Rail on the New Rail. road - Matters Generally at Guaymas-Sam Grammar Matters.
From oar Resident correspordsut.I

the Sonora Railway, having obtained
 pass from Colonel Robinson, tL;
 courteous General Manager of th'
 road. The weather was delightful
 with fine sea breeze blowing iode anC
 health into ones lungs. We started
 at half past eight a. n. up to NoriS
 del Valle, the 30-mile station, wher,
 we arrived at ten a. m. saw litllC
 :ha. have not preYIously reported
 Iu ,he readers of the CITIZEN. The
 next fifteen miles were new to me,
 but they constituted the most enjoy.
 able part Of the trip. The track Is for
 miles as straight as an arrow and the
 curves, wherever they occur, are ex-
 cee1ingly delicate. As the General
 commanding the troops of Sonora
 was expected there in carriage from
 HermUsillO at the end of the track |,
 We were To remain until four D. m. f,
 the time al winch he would probably
 arrive. We had plenty of tune Io
 spare 10 take notes and observations,
 but as the landscape Is In every par
 ticular the same as the average Ari-
 Zona plains landscape, 1 and O'Haya,
 HhO Nss with me, took our cbserYa-
 tons under s flat car, snoring st tue
 rals Oi ten mics au hour. 1 may not
 therefore be able 10 give you many
 remarks about the flora. iaGua and
 mammal lie O; Moreno, the name Ot
 the new station, but l hvpe il will console you that 1 slept as just sleep
 of the just as justly needed. The General not arriving, at four ?. m. we cane back at ratIIIng Tate, and the cars running as steady Us could be desired. At BatamUtal, which is
 about nine miles out from the port,
 We found the nearly entire force Uf laburers encamPed. They have been removed iiom The end of tue track, aS
 uuhappily there Is again lack oi Iie;. Al present they are getting rock out of a mountain and COnsu Uc;Iug break water iu front Of the big lres- tie GridgC, which cI"sses the bay at CabO BlsncO. Fms Is very necessary, as dUIIng the ireshets which occur du-ing lhe rainy season, nsw nesr al had, the sea is saId tO Tun Very high tHere. Some UI the black |" bFud- ders Who We're imported from Lou Isiana t0 work on the road leiI iu dls- gust some ,imc ago, but B- the majur- IIy aIe still working diliseuuy anu seem to be pleased with their lot, presume i.e otLeIs W5ie WOTtGitss " "cU-ses. aud l sm sorry 10 add thal ILeis are E uu many such iHdIYid- uals amUuAsI ILe Ameiicau labUrers too.
 The mining illere-ts ia thus di-tiiCi ale IIeIIy lntly Iust how. A MT. Ha-per, IrUm Sau Jusr, bought lh, SahIa GeIlrudIa mIne, on The Haqui rIvtr, Lear Sum Brauuau's grant, which Has veIy celebrated iu 1895, when, oHIng tO Ihe revolution, Il was discontinued, along with ail the o,h- CTS in the district, and he has alsO bonded another very rich gold mine belonging 10 F. s. Chisem, sn Amer ican gentleman of this place. Near the well known Pristas mine Captain ". Randall has bonded mine called the AmarIllas. or Mercedes. to Dr. McQuester, of New York. Three hundred thousand dollars is the price he wants for T.. Do you think any of your readers has got such small amount slowed away somewhere in sn old sock under the roof? Because if he has he had better come right out here with the coin and make splen- did bargain. if report speaks the truth.
 4 sad accident occurred at the Minas Prietas short time ago. A German named Ed. Schroeder, who had been having a streak of bad luck all along, some eight weeks ago se- cured job up there to do some paint llg. Two weeks ago, while painting s lank, he fell from the plank on N nich he stood to the ground. He dIu not seem 10 feel veiy badly when picked up, and only complained of sliEht sickness of the stomach. About two hours afterwards, while walking up and down in his room, he suddenly stopped, fell down and was instanta- neously a corpse.
 On the 3d instant l think the first accident which has hapuened on the railroad look place near BaIsmotal. A boy who had stolen ride on the believing himself di,cOv- cred, jumped oil, with the l. elGncholy resulg Oi failing under the wheels ana getIIng his ann cut UN. MT. Merritt, the con- 2cIOr, al once stopped the tram, and brought hiIS back to Quay. mas, where he belongs. He Was placed in the hands of u doctor, who the am. The boy be ha, ed with wonderful fOrtitude, sell dom 10 he seen in one so young.
 The elections were not attended with any disturbance, probably because there was a sergeant's guard Of Fed erai soldiers near each poll, con- handed by two officers. TFIs is no doubt that Carlos K. OriiL p" elected Governor, though MsyIorena made pretty stiff sht in the Gusymas dis lrict.
 I had almost forgotten 10 tell you that Juan Moreno's stages now run every other day 10 lhe end Of the Irack, where the passengers are trans [, rred 10 the train. The iaru On the [ ars 10 Moreno is $2 25, and as car has nov been arTsngeI for the recep- ton of passengers, this is hardly 10 te called dear. The stages Of Asui- lar, which used To run between Guay- llss aud Hermasillo, were cOnse- out utly withdrawn.
 Y,ur readers are 10 doubt aware hat iI has been decided 70 have ihe route ol ILe Sunora kaliway go via santa Aua and Magdalena 10 ihe United olaJes iICUtier. OH this route contracts for Hiiy miles of grading, [ on Hern osilIo out, EaVs already been awarded.
 IL has Uzen ,aid, and have seen Il menlIuned 10 IslegTains, that ihs Di- r,cluis ui the RsIiTUad had uscidsd 10 change thtlr ruuLr, inasmuch ihHl, lnriead Ul gong toward u PasO, they would m4ks Tue su0 ILeIr ubJecIlYe uoIul. 1 dn nut Ihiuk mi, will Ls The case, because it is \ matter of vital itnpurtunce that we should hS con.