The Press., 1884-05-08

An adobe house Is built ill this way Square blocks of clay are taken out solid, of the size of shovel blade, and are dried in the sun. The walls are built of these blocks, laid in fresh clay, about eight feet high, and the buildings will average ten to twelve feet wide, and about twenty long, Large poles are laid across the top, and the blocks of clay laid over them and plas- tered together with clay. One or two holes are dug in the sides, and small window inserted. The floor is made of the same material, and the house is finish ed. The oven is made of clay in the shape of cone, and stands outside, near the door. The furniture consists of a frame with cowhide drawn tightly over it, and few blankets for bed; they have no chairs, and all eat from one dish with their fingers. They have no fires in their houses, and all things considered they must save great deal of labor which our eastern housewives have never learned to avoid.
 We saw one church built of the same material, with a flat roof and a cross and bell upon the walls. At Deming we oh ,nge cars for the Southern Pacific road. Here are about hundred and twenty-five houses, and all in sight of the station are saloons. and I was told there We're sixty nine open bar-rooms in the place, each paying a license of hundred and sixty dollars here thieves, gamblers, and pick pockets abound notices are up in all di- rectlons to beware of them, and we Were glad when the train moved away West of Deming we saw battallia cactus we judged to be twenty five feet high and two feet through. They look like green limbless tree with futed bark was told that they grow to the height of thirty-fve to fifty five feet and three feet in diameter, and we imagine we hear you say "pooh, that's California story" but we assure you tis not, it is
 AN ARIZONA STORY,
 and I have it from the mouth of Rev. Charles Sumner, who preached truth and righteousness in Monson for many years. l found him at Tucson, nicely situated in new brick house, and was made 8 thou sand times welcome, and spent the pleas antest hour of my trip at his house. His wife has gained much in health since they came there, and they wished to be remem- bered to all their Monson friends. Some idea of the morals of the place may be gathered from the fact that when he ar rived there, there were placards up an- nouncing bull fight the next Sunday, which came off according to program. There are now Congregational, Bap- tist, and @ Methodist church, and MT. s. says there are many very excellent people there, and the place now shows signs of civilization far superior to any other we saw in the territory.
 We stopped an hour at Benson the on- ly attraction there is the smelling mill,
 where
 | VAST QUANTITIES OF SILVER ORE
 are reduced. Two great furnaces are kept in full blast. The ore is dumped ill by the
 wheelbarrow load, alternating with a load
 of coal. The blast is kept up by power full steam engine, and four men are con-
 stantly employed drawing the melted mass into great ladies fixed upon wheels, which they roll out and dump upon the ground.
 The silver runs out and forms sheet
 upon the ground The dross and rufuse which remains at the top is removed, and } the silver taken back, remelted in another
 furnace, drawn out and cast into bars of
 about hundred pounds each. A man with two horses was drawing the bars and
 loading them into freight cars. From Benson to Yuma we passed more than forty miles where the ground as fa1
 as the eye could see was covered with the ; MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS. , with now and then small evergreen and punches of Oacachoa cactus, which grows up like cones from five to twenty feet high, and was also in bloom. At Yums v we saw tribes of the most disgusting look . ing Indians dressed in the most primitive 5 style. Here we cross theColorado river ano 3 enter California, and also the desert where t for hundred and fifty miles there is noth
 ing but drifting sand. But
 SUDDENLY ALL THINGS ARE CHANGED. The fields are all green, barley is heading , and trees are dressed in their most lovely green the air is fragrant with the orange blossom, the birds are singing, and all na ture looks happy, and as the sun arises we slow up at the City of the Angels, but it is ,, our candid opinion that if some of the wis ible speciment we saw there should arise to the celestial regions and apply for ad mission they would return with the veloc ity of Lucifer.
 My impressions of California can be bet ter given after few days sojourn in the state. G. l.. T. . Pomona, April 22d, 1884.
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 cold water, two of four and one measure ot
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