Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-30
FROM TUCSON TO PORT LOBOs.
The Lyric Attainnents of the Party-A New
 Station Established--Au in Good Spirits.

Special Correspondsnce of the CITIzES.l
 CAMP No. 3. AprIl 22-Saturday even- ing found us in our third camp. on a beautiful mesa seven miles almost due west of the old San Xavier Mission. The line has been run and leveled up to 3 point more than twelve miles from Tucson and nearly two-thirds of the dis tAnce Is an air line. The first ten miles of the route showed an elevation Of con siderably less than one hundred feet and the entire line so far + one of the best have ever seen in a country where mountains are to be avoided and river bottom spanned. At point ten miles from Tucson the first station was esta- blished and was christened San Xavier. It is located on the west side of San Xavier mountain and about three and q half miles from the old nilsson. ! he location Is a beautiful one but wbethel Or not it will ever be a city leave fOI time to tell.
 Since We left Tucson the nights have been quite cool and some of the party have at times found lack of bed clothing one of the incon- genlences of the trip. However, no one has ever been seriously inconvenienced. and all have reported regularly three times day for their accustomed grub. Tho pnval.v nf c,r,r, l,Fa bas ,-,f ,-at worn of, and vocal strains and the merr! laughter of light hearts may be heard foi miles across the uninhabited mesas untii iOng after the camp fire has died out. Ex-Under Sheriff Coleman Is the ehiei vocalist, and under his tutOrship the other members ot the party are rapidly earning to weave into harmony the sweet symphonies that have heretofore ,mOuldered Iu their souls. Palmer, as Jjss, Is a prodigy, while Finch, as tenor, Oids fair tO rIvdl the most renowned Italian masters. Our teutonic friend, Bartles, who has been dubbed "Wurtem- Jurg" for short, frequently reg5lles the party with the songs Of his native land "Wurtemburg" cannot speak English out he has developed into something of | wag and enters into the spirit of q jesl with as much pleasure as though he hau been born and bred in free America. de Is, however, picking uu the EnglisL Icngue with great rapidIty, and if the OOys continue tO give hIm lessous, ne will soon be able to make himself easily understood. He can even now go through the prOfane and sport iug vocabularies wIeh startling precision md can swear at tenacious cactus iu more languages than any other man IL he party.
 We have recently discovered that Vt nave ln our party very sanguiuary person. His blOOdthirsty exploits-all -elateI by himself-have won for him the somewhat euphoniuus title of "Black Range Charley, tue Indian Slayer," anu We begin to feel some apprehension les; ue involves the entire corps into q desperate war with the Indians before We get through to the Gulf. He is un- iuubtedly very dangerous character Shen he Is among Indians and there T. some talk of chaining him to the wagon ,t nights to prevent him from extermin- atiug the entire Papago race. The news of the late Indian outbreak re- kindled the fire of Indian hatred in his bosom and his demeanOr at times + positively alarming.
 l.. D. ChIllsOn is in charge of the transit and has proved tO be l. fastest walker in the party. In fact the boys nave decided tO get up a walking matcb, yO-as-you- please, when they return and stake their pile on hun.
 Mr. J. K. COutts, Of California, has joined the party as leveler and Is vel cOmed cordially by all
 MT. DeLoug. our cLief. is always tn be found during working hours on the line with the corps and when old Sol is ye- hemeutly shedding his scoItching rays upon the heads of the party is always ready with jest or a kind word t. cheer the boys on. He IS quite popular with all as Is also our fellow citizen, Mr ChIllson.
 To-day has been the warmest day We have experienced on the trip and yet We have run out and leveled up more than five miles of line, the longest run yet made III one day.
 We are beginning to miss our regular daily papers and the more studiOus ui the party who resort to the newspaper in the absence of books have already be- gan complaining. Still we occasionally get paper and when we do it goes the rounds in very short order. The CITIZEN seems to be the most welcome journal that reaches Us and IS always eagerly sought for. JIM