The Arizona sentinel., 1886-02-20
A JAumT powN THE COLORADO.

stars sang together" the staunch rive
 steamer Gila, Capt. Godfrey, the genial a
 the wheel, Commodore Polhamus, supervis
 ing, shot through the bridge draw, in he , wake barge Flo. ?, Capt. Joaquin Mende handling the spokes, the objective point
 Lerdo Colony in Sonora.
 As complimentary guests of the Gila
 were Mr. G. Ginocchio and wife, of Sar
 Francisco; Mrs. Capt. Ingalls, and child
 wife of the Superintendent of Territoria
 Prison, Yuma, Mrs. Fred Fredly and son
 Yuma; Mrs. H. S. Muzzy and Miss c. Will
 Hams, wife and daughter of Chief Engineer
 Muzzy, of the c. S. N. Co.,, Yuma; and the
 writer. Staterooms were occupied on the
 down trip by Gen. Guillermo Andrada,
 President of the Compania Mexicana, Agri-
 cola, Industrial Colonizadora de Terrenos
 del Colorado, (of which more will be said hearafter.); Commodore C.. E. Bateman,
 Superintendent of Colony; Col. George Egg
 gleton, capitalist, San Francisco; Major
 Fred Reed, civil engineer, San Francisco;
 Judge Henry Cox, representing the Blythe
 estate, Colton, Gala; Col. N. c. Powers,
 San Bernardino; and Judge Ira Mabbett.
 Yuma. One hundred and ten colonists oc-
 cupied the steerage.
 A more perfect day never fell to the lot of mortal man; a gentle breeze just tinged with coolness, dry and invigorating, famed the
 cheek and sent the blood throbbing and tin gling with healthfulness thro' the veins; on
 either side the brown-grey banks, now firing
 ed with the light green of young willows
 blending gradually with the darker color of the lines of cottonwoods, marking the site of some inland lagoon; again, long stretches of yellow sand bars upon which the erect ar row weed and graceful willow have taken root, and like Jonah's gourd shot up in night. In the distance, lending enchant- mountain chains, blue and hay their rug ged outlines softened and framing the pie ture of quiet restfullness. Swinging grace fully toward the California shore, cleaving the yellow waters and tossing the foam from her paddle wheel, the Gila glides gracefully by the charming villa of that noted frontier character and gentleman, Don J. L. F. Iaeg CT. A few miles yet Sonoraward and we sight the Hall Hanlon estate, the low com modious residence, like a pearl in an emer aid setting, the line of white gleams among the groves of lofty cottonwoods. At a. m. the well known land mark, Pilot Knob, is passed, thro' which runs the frontier itne of survey between ''The Land of the Free,'' and our neighbor republic, 'El Tirra de Manyana"
 Just within the Mexican boundary, on the starboard shore, was seen section of the Yuma bridge, carried away in the rise of 'S4, upright and perfect as tho placed there by the hand of man. With throbbing, pulsating jar steadily we continue our jour ney gulfward, until on wide, smooth bar, three other bridge sections and two piers were sighted stranded about fourth of mile inland, and from Algodones station on the S. P R. R. not over two miles souther- ly. One having no knowledge of this section of country would readily believe this to be on the line of railroad, so regularly were the sections in place and line, standing erect perfectly intact, with telegraph poles in place and as perpendicular as the character of gcod citizen before he runs for ofice A,1 ,,o,, 4ba biob vaIIo,,- soDd Ju0a- u-bIcL constitute the point known as the Algodon- es, (cottonwoods), are off our starboard bow, at their base extensive groves of lofty cot tonwoods, and on the wide bar grazing on the succulent young growth of willows and herbs, band of fat, pied cattle creating a happy pastoral view, which with green gray back ground of wood, the long line of green tinted brown sand bar, in the fore ground the murmuring river lighted, and glistening in the rays of the morning sun, the musical splashing of the water as it lap ped the vessels side. the rare deliciousness of this all too perfect day, vigor, vitality, restfulness in every inhalation of the rare6ed air, and it needed but the undula ting dots of white upon the distant shore, where the huge white crane, startled from their accus toned quietude, with spread pinions, Heated lazily to a more quiet retreat in some distant marsh or lagoon to complete the picture.
 Of like nature with the channel of the Colorado is the experience, in legal compi- cations of the average sojourner on this Terrestrial Ball, 5 from your position with the rank and file on deck it would appear there would be but slight deviation from a direct line to your objective point, but seen from the pilot house and thro' the eyes of experience the channel is woefully tortu- ous and in one instance of many l2 miles were run, when but mile of neck of sand ba. Now off our port bow a red signal flag floats from the top of slender and lofty pole, and a corps of lusty aborigi- nals, of the Yuma persuasion, roost on lines of neatly stacked cordwood, attesting a ''wooding up'' point. While the Indian boat crew were packing on board, a rush of colonists toward the shore, the thud of clubs 1 beating the bank and the cause thereof was soon evinced, when Capt. Godfrey brought | on board three huge, wriggling rattlesnakes which were soon beheaded, skinned, stuffed | and presented to Mrs. Ginocchio as sov- enir. At 9 p. m. all fast to bank, whist the order of the day in cabin; for the gentlemen so inclined yarns, and the soothing influence of +bot