Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-06-25
FRON TUCSON TO poRT LoBos.
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 We have reached ,ur destination.
 started on our return aad tto Boys are
 singing Home Sweet Home lqht and
 morning. From this point ae sako our
 last look at s4!- Euter and ou the nor
 row we will set oat Go cross ou4 or the
 jull-st and dlea=est plains ve nave
 struck o0 tac uip. Our csul F. is I2 niles from tbo 3ulf and brisk Sea breeze makes life much mere
 pleasant than We found it some d ys ago when the thermometer raust | along
 ali the way from 100 p I50 l degrees in the shade Oneor u days 1t was even warmer and you can masiae
 how weGrily our minds wandered to ice and other fnri5 luzuries. 4 ne tine
 I arrived at tac caaclusill lhat one
 would have @ dig down about
 eighteen lncbes to stnke the cap-sock to holland I hava Eo5 E5t abandoned /. that conclusion ai .o.se. .sc. H har would
 the average reader Of the CITlzI think
 were he to fuI himself .4 a F5uney
 where the heat is so intense thad bacon
 is fried to a crisp in the saaie2 Water in the cautesn by his side toila aal tfe
 wagon-tues get 80 hot -.e- mise a smoke from every stick tley pass oyer. IL was not so warm as that where We
 were the fore-par. of this week but ] do not think we were more than a nile and a half from where sucb a condition ol things existed.
 We reached Port L050s last Welles- day evening and on Thursday morning completed the survey up to tide water point and laid ont tho depot grounds. The distance from Tucscn to tilc water by our line is l,072l2l feet CT 2ol miles and 2l0I feet, but a little more than half a mile shorter than has been suppose since Mr. De Long made uis first trip here. l will speak more atieugth Of the port in my naxt letter which will be !. written when get where ] cap have more courenieuces than are afforded by l. a badly battered quart causeen lashed to . a dilapiiatei vaiise. The members of . our party who were not at work spent . most of their time on the beach gather !
 ing shells, bathing and gathering clans . while at Lobos At present the beach at | this point is not the most agreeablep place . on earth owing to an almost iutJierable ! stench created by the thousands ofdcad . ish, seals, sharks and turtles that are thrown upon thestraud. This disagree able feature, however, is only temporary, am told, and is caused by tae immense quantity of fresh water that pours into ,he sea from the Colorado river since tho June freshet set in.
 The boys are not enjoying as good health as they diI before thr heat be- came so intense and We now have three sick men and others who are not able Co get away with as much bacon as they
 lid some days ago. Lew Neely has been very sick several days with gastric fever and will probably uatbe able to do much more work ou the line Harmon Bartle took sick at Port Lobos and Charley Whipple has taken sick since leaving TLos. White is also ol the sick list and some CT sh. otleE are coE.7lau- ing but none ot them are in go serious condition.
 There is but one house, deserted old adobe, between Calaro and te coast, g distance of for-y-ei1h; miles and in going over this stretch We had the most disagrcea5la t.mo rehave had on the entire trip. Last Sunday ! when about thirty miles north of the coast our supply Of water got down Co ] less than three barrels, tLe heat was iu- tense and We had fourteen thirsty au- imaIs on our hands. For a tme onr clouds Of anxiety seemed t1 be without any silver lining, but kind Providence came to our rescue and a heavy thunder shower suddenly camcup iustaftaruoou !. winch completely trouyhed au creation ! around Us and not only filed the gulches but gave us such a shower bath as ! have rarely hadthe pleasure os enjoying. ! It lasted only about twenty minutes, but I never saw as much water fail in the same length or time before and ! hope never to again see it unless I am where I can secure the protection Of some sort Of shelter. The raiu gave us a good supply of water, and we next day nearly reached Griueo Wells where We found water plenty but ol a very poor quality. hope that the uez, tune travel over this plain there will be a greater number Of wells along Che route if there is not a well let the ot. CT tel- low come.
 The boys were so well pleased with l the way in which they were treated by Chief Engineer DeLong during the trip that they intended to have a Httle "speechiiying' at Lobos, but when the crowd was cauvassed no one could be found who could make a speech and the whole thing had necessarily to go by default They could make up songs and l recite essays among themselves, but there seemed to be smothered oratory ] iu the party and l presume that a gold headed cane, will be secured when they reach home. JIG.
 The people ol the cotton States are reaching, !, they have not already reached