Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-07-24
CALIFORNIA LETTER.
Comparisons Of Temperature or Interest To Arizona Stockmeu-Phenomen
 Growth of fCalifornIa-Thc Roxcntt.

ED OIrIZKS:-ProbAbly few re
 marks from the undersigned might b,
 readable in Tucson now. If your towr were not so far from the Sacramento
 and San Joaquin valleys, 1t might be-
 come a summer resort for the swelter
 ing people of these places. The Call ol
 this morning says:
 The highest temperatures reported yesterday m the state were: Yuma
 lu6 degs-. Red Bluff los degs.. Sacrs.
 mento, lO5 degs., Los Angeles 9S degs.,
 degs.
 Tucson may not be jealous on this showing, but how do you suppose Yuma
 feels by being shown two degrees cooieI in July than Red Bluff? More intense heat doubtless prevails in the San Joa-
 quin.
 The cattle growers ot Arizona occa- sionAlly experience difficulties, but not all incident to the business. Growers u Wyoming and Colorado gre erecting enormous barns for fhe protection of cattle from storms, which last winter destroy ed entire herds. Railway trains, alter passing through cuts where these animals had taken refuge, sometimes looked as though they had been in s sIHughter-house.
 In many places, hay has become a necessity us we'll us barns Tn winter. Ranges are being eaten off so that the best rust!ers for food can not ind enough to sustain life during tbe bitter cold storms of snow and sleet. To some extent this Is true in the north- western part of this state, eastern Oregon and in several of the Territories. Judged by
 the obvious facts. the number of range cattle must decline from this time for ward, and hence better prices prevail. It really looks as If the bottom had been reached so far as the open range cattle business Is concerned. If half the reports from Texas be true, the growth of range cat ,le :here must very rapidly diminish, and the same IS true to some extent throughout the whole rEnge country. The Central Pacific railroad company have icst sold for cash 5Sl, ,lJO acres bordering on the northwestern margin o' Sal; Lake and covering portion of the track including the tOSn of kelton. for stOckraising; and have withdrawn from market all of what they call their Humboldt valley meadow lands, intend iag to immediately fence their sections and thereafter sell them cnly wnen more or less of the dry mesa land can be sold herewith. There Ere many evidences that men of means and exDerIence re gard the stock business profitable even In the dry and thInly gfBssed regions of the interior.
 California is uDquestionably ID pros pcrous condition generRliy and m detail. Probably at no time ID her history was there as many miles Of railroad under construction as at present. Aside from a dozen interior lInes, the nam line to Oregon and the one direct south oi San Francisco via the coast tO Newhsll, are being pushed by thousands of common and nearly as many skilled lRbOrers. Crops are generally good, larger than heretofore aud upon the average rather better Erices prevail. Population IS rapid ly increasing. Best of Ell IS that all class es Of people are giyiug more attention tD the development of the country and IropOr;IOnBiely less 70 tue alwayF crowd ed cities. Capitalists and banks tind AS sGte investments and loans, with larger interest, In the country as ID the cities. Probably the large loss of trade tO San Erancicco because Of the Northern Pa ciiic aud Atlantic X Pacific railways with their various connections, compell eI city capitalists to aid in developing home trade. To give some idea of the extent of this loss, lt may be stated that the San Francisco agent of n Chicago type boundary lost annual sales amount ing to SS0OUO in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. upon the completion of the Northern Pacific. Other lines of trade declined ID proportion almost as largely to the south as north of San Francisco. California IS state of vast area and im- mense resources Eastern men of cap ital and enterprise see these facts and are investing largely in land- that few years ago were accounted of little value. With all its overland railway connec- tiOns. there will soon be mOre-the next probably a narrow gauge. Rapid aG- vance Is made m nearly all liu, of bus mess. notwithstandiug strikes, boycCtts. court decision declaring the riparian doctrine, and an approaching elt c;iou NAa EAAtt AAANA ANAlA. blAAif-aEH hAltA EkAE- lature winch vii elect U. S. senator.
 ltlsB 6 curious fact that all strikes are aimed agaIust laboTing men who prefer tO work and Hct Indepeudent- iy of organizations. and not b gaiust capital; and the society labofers seem determined tia. nOn-socIety ones shall not b. allowed to labor. If the machinery of the organizations Is powerless to prevent them, violence IS It k possible such unworthy and criminal conduct will succeed, but more likely that the societies will be to operate On only their own members or disbsDd.
 The boycott" is so much of boom erang that iI IS iR contempt generally and its early death IS expected, though the chief state organizer seems bent on forcing one or both political parties to favor II their platforms. It Is at least an even bet to wsger that If ore party endorses it md the other Eo., the latter will be the gainer. When frs; advocated in this state as & means ;u deprive the Chinese of patronage and labor, It was favored by many good, practical men; but the application of II was made SO obnoxious and unjust, that to-day its effects are hardly perceptiDie. 4 breach CT namer Ravlin took up the cause, lec- turpi throughout the stR.c for several mouths, and recently abandoned it. He now ndyeriises tO lecture on "Wbere He'll is and How Co get There" He probably acquired the facts for this use- less lecture while advocating the boy. cot,. IL is not likely that any other oc- cupG!Ion could have inspired such R lecture. The average preacher rarely attempts 10 locate that interesting place snd tries to teach .tis bearers how not to get there. The boycott has reversed this wise teaching. J. ".
 Cyclone at the Mammoth.