The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-29
OVER THE CONTINENT.
Ma. CAMPBELL IN THE AZTEC LAND
tn. Journey Through the Ap.eA: rOan.ry-sons
thInE Ah,at res. virsiniaas-rhs Mineral Rs.
sources Of AEE,ns-in Ancient Seat Of the
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Special Correspondence eIAe Inh1tpaetr.
LAS ysGAs, EEw MEXICO, Eovembe
3-My last letter was dated at Santa Ana
in Southern California, point about 1,l0t
miles distant from that at which l nov
write. Since then 1have travelled som,
$50 miles in California, about $50 in Ari
zona and close on to 400 miles in NeS
Mexico. lam now only about 800 mile
Southwest Of Kansas City. My route wa
by the southtrn Pacific Of Calitorniate
Yuma, on the Colorado river-the rivel
that divides California from Arizona-
thence by the Southern Pacific Of Arizona
to Dsming, New Mexico, and from thai
point here by the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fs line. I have travelled this dis,
tance by easy stages, stopping of at various
points OF interest, such as Deming, Albu.
quergue and Santa Fe.
The 250 miles from Los Angelesto Yuma
was, for the most part, through depres-
sion 200 feet below the level OF the Pacific
ocean, flanked on either side by mountain
ranges, and the weather was uncomiortably
warm, rendered all the more 80 because on
account OF the alkali dust we were obliged
to keep the car wiBdows closed. About
100 miles north OF Yuma the cars were
stopped to allow US to get off and visit q
mud geyser about 100 yards from the track.
It 10 'paint pot" quite similar to those l
described In one Of my letters from the
Yellowstone Park, only that the air or gas
which throws up the mortar. in grotesque
little points and bubbles Is cold. while that
In the Yellowstone pots is hot The re
markab!e feature. however, OF this Call.
fornia gcyser Is the fact that 1t is locate d
In what is known as the desert lands OF the
Colorado, a wa.erless aud treeless country,
and The question Is where does the moist.
ure come that mixes the mortar, leaving
out the question as to where the air or the
gas, whichever It Ia, comes from. 1t is Ger
tainlya great curiosity to find in desert.
THE COLORADO RIVER.
The Colorado river, which We crossed at
Yuma, is one Of the three great and re.
markable rivers ofthe United States that
rise close together in the Wind river range
Of the Rocky mountains in the Yellowstone
Park, viz.-the Missouri, the Columbia,
and the Colorado. The two latter fiow
west in.o the Pacific, while the former
flows east into the Gulf Of Mexico. Rising
90 close together see how wide apart Is the
Idebouchment Of the two Pacific Slope
triyers, the Columbia flowing north and
west and finally reaching the ocean on the
iorty.titth parallel; while the Colorado,
tiowingpouth and west, reaches the Gull
Of California on about the same parallel
(the twenty-ninth) as that on which the
Missouri reaches the Gulf Of Mexico. Like
the Missouri, the Colorado is q turbid
stream and closely resembles, both In
color and size, the former. Its great can
Won, however, through which 1t flows for
ZOO miles, and which in places Is over 9, 900
feet deep, far surpasses any OF the canyons
Of the Columbia or Missouri, and indeed ot
any river in the world.
At Yuma, our southernmost point, we
were only twenty miles from Old Mexico.
II Is said to be the very hottest and dryest
point in the United States in the summer
lime. Mr.. ]. Ross Brown Is my authority
for saying that the Yuma Indians ait in
the river and put fresh mud on their heads
every half hour to keep from roasting, and
while they thus escape roasting they ire
auently emerge In a parboiled condition.
| The Indians that ! saw at Yuma were,
must say, remarkably healthy and ugly.
looking specimens, about on q par with the
repulsiye Flatheads Of the Puget Sound
country. nAs compared, however, with the
lApachea, into whose country we passed a
hundred miles east Of Yuma, the
Yuma isa very lovsble Indian, ugly and
uncouth as he Is. Halt the talk you hear in
Arizona is about the ferocious Apaehes,
and, I was going to say, the other half is,
or was rather, about the yellow fever down
at Hermosillo and Guymas on the Sonora
RAILROAD, the Mexican road that comes into
the Southern Pacific at Benson, Arizona.
We we're all wondering how many refugees
sick and well, would be waiting to get on
our road OF that point. and whether they
would have enough Of the fever on then
persons to infect our train. We could mol
get any reliable information as to any
police or quarantine regulations in regard
10 yellow fever refugees, and hence We ap
pretended that an installment Of them
would come on board OF Benson, and this
turned out to be the case, although We
were afterwards assured that they wert
in such an advanced sage Of conyalescenct
that no danger Of contagion was to bt
feared.