Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08
A A GULF PORT.
Gueymss Destined to Have an I'm.
portant Place in Commerce.

Tae country around Guaymas, says
tbs New York Tribune, like all Sonora
is hilly and arid. 1t rains rarely, but
III, soil Is exceedingly fertile, and the
experience Of those who have tried 1t
shows that boring for water is aa apt
to meet with Its proper reward there
80 elsewhere. 1 Visited the ranch #
Senior Bustamente, about five miles
from Gusymas, who cultivstes some
200 acres by irrigation, Be got
water at a depth of about twenty ivn
feet, and put In a steam pump, which
delivers water enough to irrigsts about
four hundred acres. l saw there a
piece OF alfaIfa-a sort of clover, o
fsvorite green feed for cattle on the
Pacific coast-which was then under
the mowers scythe. Il stood full
three and a half tons to the acre, and
l was assured by the manager of the
ranch that they cut nine crops g year
from this lot. It Is irrigated about
once a fortnight. The oranges Of
Guaymas are as fine as any In the
world, and In due time, If the laws of
trade are permitted to have their
course, will put ar end to orange
growing In California, for no oranges
can be grown north OF Louisiana. The
richness of the soil Ia further Illus.
tratsd by the cheapness of vegetables.
Delicious green peas, string beans,
lettuce, tomatoes and the like could
be bought there for less than one.
quarter the price at which they could
be bought even In their season at New
York-a by no means dear market TO,
vegetables.
In sailing through the harbor, jus
outside the "Silver Gate" I passee
several fshermen's boAts-Mexican
of course We called one of tn,
boats to US. In the bottom of 1t W,
saw six or eight FISH, looking like sal
mon and Weighing anywhere from
sixty to eighty pounds, We bough
one; the price was TWO Bits" or A
cents of our money. 1t weighed abou
fifty pounds, costing less than l cen
a pound, and was a delicious fish. O
course, now that the railroad is open
aud a market for the surplu
productions of the country Ia pro
vided, these prices cannot rul
long, though the Mexicans of this re
gion are not familiar with the laws @
commerce, and are slow to profit b
opportunities for improving their con
dition, which involve q change O
habits. / found them drawing waite
to supply the town from wells b.
methods which would have SCENE
rude 70 the dwellers In Mesopotami
in the days of Abraham. 1t wa
holsted In buckets made of untanne
!, hides, and emptied into e reservoir
From 1t 1t was drawn off Int
, bags of a similar charactej
swung upon the backs of donkeys, b
which 1t was distributed through IL
town to the householders. 1t seen
, never to have occurred to them tn,
one pump worked by a windmill, {
=: even by hand, would readily do Il
' work of the dozen men who we're pl,
: Ing these bucket-hoists. 1 presum
however, 1t would have been as muC
as the reformefs LIE would have bet
worth TO have introduced such a no.
} city, by which these dozen men won.
have been deprived of their emplo,
/. ment.
OF the climate in the winter sessc
at Gusymss 1t is impossible to spel
4 the language of ex~sggeration. 1t
|. uuutterably soft and lovely. Such
> thing as marlarial disease of any kir
: Is utterly unknown. 1t Is very hot
!, summer, but / am told the heat he
, Is not so oppressive oil dangerous as
: the east. AS In California, such
thing as Q suustroke Is uRheard @
d At present there Is no hotel suitab
even for travellers, still less for Inv
lids; but l was told some sf the off ,e
lof the Atchison Topeka g. Santa !