The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-19
WESTERN RAMBLINGS.
Special Correspondence to The Bulletin:

We We're glad to leave the wicked city of
Tucson, Arizona, which, by the way, is
good point for missionary workers and
temperance reiormeIs. A run of fifty
miles brought us to Benson, which is q
town noted for It's many saloons, hard char
acters and scarcity Of civil society. Here
the Sonora, New Mexico, and Arizona r.
K. branches of, running south to Guaymop
Mexico, place of considerable note on the
Gulf Of California. There is an extensive
ore smelter at Benson which most of the
visited. North and south are extensive
gold and silver mines that are being worked
with profit. The valley of the Rio Gils
river, lying north, affords an excellent range
Tor stock. One hundred and seventy five
miles further east and Deming is reached.
There is the eastern terminus Of the South
ern p. r. r. and the western terminus of
the A'chison & Topeka r. r. A short
branch road leads northwest to Silver City,
one Of the mining centers Of Arizona.
Demlng is town of considerable size, but
Is noted for a want Of buildings to fill up
the town plat. 1t takes a long walk to
visit all the business houses, scattered, as
they are, here and there, as if the owners
had cast Up marbles over the town site, and
built where they fell. The buildings are
chiefly put up, as if the proprictors were
uncertain of the durability of the town,
situated here on the sage covered plains.
The railroad companies have good build.
ings. All but the Pullman passengers have
to change cars at that place. Fifty miles
and We reach Rincon. from whence one has
to change AMI 90 due south seveD,v-geyen
miles to FL Paso on the Rio Crspde river
Just across the river is Paso Del Norte in
Mexico, aud the northern terminus Of the
Mexican Central r. r. Bv the time
one takes hurried walk throuob
the principal streets of the town.
he becomes thoroughly impressed
with the idea that he is in Mexico,
surrounded with Mexican people, who have
manners and customs. So different, in many
respects, one cannot help seeing the great
contrast between the people here and in
the L. :. 1t is true, there is a considerable
sprinkle of L. 5. people here and there, but
not enough to give an appearance of things
common to a town run by United States
laws and customs. From the Rio Grande
the road runs due South through a level
plain, dry and sandy, to the West, at dis.
lance, hills and mountains NAV be seer.
which border on the Santa Maria And Rio
Casa Grandes rivers. Those streams run due
North and empty into lakes, which seem
to have no outlets, doubtless the waters
pass beneath the surface and eventually
find their way into the bed of the Rio
Grande. A number of stations, Of but little
inheritance, are noticed ALONG the lin. of
road, occasionally nerds or SleeD are seen
grazing oo the grassy patches. Only now
and then does the traveller see anv sttemnt
made to cultivate the SOIL water is scarce,
and people of energy and enterprise still
scarcer. Owing to the monotonous appear
spce of tbinps in general along the line of
the road. one becomes tired and clad to lie
oyer and take a rest at this place. which is
noted for beng the Headquarters of mauy
MINING men, stock men and the Quitting
noint to the rich silver mines in the noun
taps. Chihuahua pronunciation Che.wau-
yau) is a place of considerable trade prob.
ably one.third of the inhabitants are free
from any faint of Mexican blood There
are some very good buildings to be seen
and considerable enterprise is manifested
at least for a Mexican town. The main
route, leading to the fabulously rich silver
region in the mountains, bordering on the
waters OF the different branches of the
Yaqui river, is more or less infested with