The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-11-23
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Dropping these personal "reminiscences and
coming back to our present trip, we awoke
the next morning on the crest Of the Ration
mountains. The ride next day down through
New Mexico was an enjoyable one. Mexico,
as land, is made up of great parks, Of broad
plateaus and smooth, round hills, some tim.
bered and some grass-grown, all Interested
by small valleys, occupied and cultivated, in
a way, by the unprogressive greaser whose
DOLBY huts and four-acre fields lend no little
interest to the whole. The other side Of
built upwards of 300 years ago. We tool
dinner at Las Vegas and supper ut Albu.
querque.
New Mexico is full Of resources and has 0
big future.
The third incoming found our train at Dem.
ing, near the line of old Mexico and the point
of junction with the Southern Pacific. The
third days ride through Arizona l should
never forget If the fourth day hadn't proved
SO much worse. There is only one kind Of 9
country that can beat Arizona for desolation
and that is a desert. Imagine great level
plain like the Arkansas Valley, only 400 miles
wide, covered with sage brush, chapparel,
cactus aud yucca, with here and there all
about and everywhere great solitary, bare,
bald mountains, singly or in groups OF two
or three ''histed up" 10 the tune Of three OF
four thousand feet, and no water, no rains,
no springs, no creeks, no rivers anywhere,
and yeu have Arizona. The only thing we
saw in the whole days journey worth noting
was wood called mountain mahogany which
is SO heavy that it sinks in water and which
makes such hot fire that no stove can stand
it more than week. At SHUTDOWN we passed
through Benson which is in sight Of Tomb.
stone which place we concluded was most
appropriately named.
Sunday morning we breakfasted ut Yuma
city situated at the mouth of the ella on the
Colorado, in the extreme southeast corner Of
California, about 800 miles from San Francis
CO, or as far from this place Is Wichita IL
from Cincinnati, Ohio. That Sundays ride
/ can never hope to describe. l had read OF
the dry, drifting sands of Asia, the simoons
of Sahara, and the siroccos Of Aiiics:, sal
that there was such an expanse Of desolation
and desert waste anywhere on Gods green
earth as that 200 miles ride of Sunday, new.
err dreamed. One hundred and fifty feet be.
low sea level, and sand, sand, wind-swept
drifting sand, save here and there an uproot.
ed scraggy scrub or giant cactus tovary the
utter desolation, where no sound is ever
heard but the bowling blasts ever sweep its
barren desolation. where no insect or bird
ever yentured, where the railroad track fol-
long stretches is covered with sand as by
snow in a winters storm, where the tele.
graph poles are annually cut In two by the
sharp flying sand, such is the desert of Yu'
ma. And hot and dry can't begin TO tell.
Fort Yuma stands opposite TO Yuma city on
the margin Of this hot isolation. Here still
fingers the remnant of the tribe of Yuma In.
dams. One hundred and thirty-five degree:
in the shade is common summer weather
1t is said that bad Indian, who died here
last summer and went to the place that Kel
Iy, Hewitt aud Harper are continually warn.
ing us all of, came back next day for his
| blanket, declaring the climate was too chilly
| in his new quarters. At shutdown we reach.
ed Las Angeles.
Sunday night our train was caught by Q
mountain slide in the Tehetiche mountains
near the famous loop where the railroad
doubles back on itself and winds through
tunnels and across gorges until it reaches the
valley between the Serras and the coast
range. In a few hours fourteen trains were
blocked and we did not get out of the scraps
| ~. al Iar bov Ia
| by transfer made by the help of a hundred
or so Cinnamon, the passengers footing it.
| The 356-mie ride made Monday through the
San Joaquin Valley, and by its towns anC
vineyards, | shall leave for some other time
| And that brings us up to where com
menced the depot in the bay. The 2,34s
mile ride from Wichita to Frisco will never
be forgotten by any one who makes it.
had intended to say more. but Mr.. S. W
Levy. brother to our NJ. w., one of Frisco.
solid men-president of the great orphan
asylum of this city and prince merch ant
with bis charming daughter. called TO spent
the evening with us. And to-day Mrs. 4
Michalitschke, sister Of our Mike thinner
ly, and whose husband is the head of large
tobacco manufacturing establishment, ant
who, besides, has a wholesale and retail es
Enlistment, and Mrs. C. S. Fechheimer.
sister of Mr.. NJ. Bloch, whose husband is tn,
| principal owner of a trunk and valse facto
ry, all having been notified of our presence
in the city, have made the time pass so fas
and pleasantly that ] must close. OF thu
wonderful parks, of the art gallery Of which
Mr.. Zmmerly's sister is a patron of the ia
nous race course; of the Cliff House and it.
sea lions and dashng breakers, and Of the
many othsr things, will say more when
have learned more. NJ NJ. NJ.