Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-04-26
A GAY GULF PORT.
Guaynas Destined to Have an Important
Place In Commerce.

ht COuuJIy dIOuuu uud1 lndS, llkc
all Sonora, is hilly and arid 1t rains
rarely, but the soil is exceedingly fer
tile, and the experience of those who
have tried it shows that boring for
water is as apt TO meet with its proper
reward there rs elsewhere. | visited
the ranch of Senor Bustamente. about
five miles from Guaymas, who cul-
tivates some two hundred acres by ir-
rigation He got water at u depth of
about twenty-five feet, and put in a
steam pump which delivers water
enough TO irrigate about four hundred
acres. l saw there piece of alfalfa
n sort of clover, favorite green feed
for cattle on the Pacific coast which
was then under the mowers scythe. 1t
stood full three and half tons to the
acre, and was assured by the manager
of the ranch that they cut nine crops a
year from this lot. 1t is irrigated
about once n fortnight. The oranges
OF Guaymas, | may say, of Sonora, are
as line rs any in the world, ana in due
time, If the laws of trade are permitted
to have their course, will put an end to
orange-growing in CALIFORNIA;; for no
oranges to compare with them can
be grown north of Louisiana. The
richness of the soil is further illus
trated by the cheapness of vegetables.
Delicious green peas, string beans, let
tuce, 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 for vege-
tables.
Installing through the harbor Just out
side 1.-the Silver Gate" | passed several
fishermen's boats-Mexican of course.
We called one of the boats to us. In
the bottom of it we saw six or eight
fish looking like salmon, and weighing
anywhere from sixty to eighty pounds.
We bought one; the price was "two
bits, or 40 cents OF our money; it
weighed about fifty pounds, costing
less than cent pound, and was de-
llclous fish. OF course, now that the
railroad is open and market for the
surplus productions of the country is
provided, these prices can not rule
long, though the Mexicans Of this re.
gion are not familiar with the laws of
commerce, and are slow to profit by
opportunities for improving their con
dltlon which involve n change OF hab-
It's. L found them drawing water TO
supply the town from wells by meth
ods which would have seemed rude TO
dwellers in Mesopotamie in the DAYS
of Abraham. 1t was hoisted in buck
cts made of untanned hides, and
emptied into n reservoir. From it it
was drawn off into bags of similar
character, swung upon the backs of
donkeys, by which it was distributed
through the town to the hOuseholders.
III seems never to have occurred to
them that one pump worked by wind
mill, or even by hand, would readily
do the work of the dozen men who
were plying these bucket-hoists. | pre-
sumo, however, it would have been as
much rs the reformer's life would have
been worth to have introduced such a
novelty, by which these dozen men
would have been deprived of their en-
ploymcnt.
Of the climate in theIwinter season at
Guaymas it is impossible to speak the
language of eXaggeration. 1t is unut-
terable soft and lovely. Such n thing
rs malarial disease of any kind is un-
known. 1t is very hot in summer. but
L was told that the heat here is not OPP
pressive or dangerous as at the east.
As in California, such thing as a sun
stroke is unheard of. At present there
is no hotel suitable even for travellers,
still less for invalids; but | was told
that some of the officers of the Atchi-
son Topeka and Santa Fe road were to
be here next week to select a site for
hotel, and that done hotel would be-
the work of few months only. BY
January next there is but little doubt
that the accommodation for travellers