Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-11
SCHWATKA IN MEXICO.
The City of Guaymas and Its Beau,
tifnl HarbOr.

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=. had made up my mind befor
p coming to this port, the principa
~ one Of the Gulf of California, tina
! there would be very little to say re
,. garding it. | concluded it woult
Il be as well known as Coney Islano
is to New Workers, or any other east
l. ern watering place that we cOult
= recall. found, on the contrary
that the Sonora railway, an exten
sion Of the Atchison, Topeka & San
Ia Fe, reached here some seven ol
. eight years ago, and everything
was ready to be "boomed," as il
were.
a hotel to cost quarter of IL mil.
lion was started on beautiful knoll
overlooking the harbor, but after
about one-tenth that amonnt had
been put into the foundation and
carriage-way leading up the hill,
II was given up. 1t my not be in
appropriate to say that all of Quay
mas is very much like that fine
hotel; it is all fine foundation, well
enon IN built indeed, but not much
of anything else. And surely it is a
good foundation for u winter resort
If ever one existed. The first day
you arrive, you get "A sample of the
weather in mild warm days with
cool nights that will not vary
hair-breadth in all your stay. The
harbor is picturesque to an extreme.
II is completely land-locked and
swarms with II hundred kinds of
fishes. II looks not unlike the
harbor of San Francisco, California,
but while it is smaller, it is far more
scenic in the many beautiful vistas
it opens to the sight, from the various
points rs one sails over its tortuous
waters running deep into the land |
and studded with many beautiful |
islands. Fit should ever become
popular as winter resort--and the
only reason il has not become so
long before is in the fact that there
have been no active, energetic pco-
pie to appreciate it and take advan-
tnec of nature, to convert it into
onc-no finer fishing or sailing
C Duld be had than in the harbor of
Guaymas and the Gulf of California.
a constant sea or land breeze is
summer and winter, but
never hard enough To make the
waters dangerous. | have been fish
ing several times and certainly the
piscatorial bill of fare, as shown by
my experience, has been an cX-
rcmcly varied one. The same
,fternoon, while OF the heads of the
larbor | caught II shark measuring
'ver six feet in length, which gave
ne tusslc before | could pull ii
alongside, and plunge knife into
Is heart, not so much altogether To
nd its suilcrings, as to end the
offerings of other and better fish,
nd probably II human being or two
t some time in the future.
The natives told me, however,
hat II was only n large spotted, or
lger shark, II species seldom seen
ere, that Will deign to mistake the
Y of II swimmer for the early
'erm that is caught by the bird.
zone of the shark kind enter the
lner harbor, where sensible per-
IN would naturally bathe, and
ley need not enter as an element
fear in going in swimming"
he shark wants rough surface y
ater 10 hide his movements from II
Is prey, and this he can seldom
Il IN the inner harbor of this port. II
4 iact, It's name-Guaymas- de el
we'd from word taken from "A
Indian ;I'be, means II ro
~ OF water irom :hc fact that il is h,
hnd'locked aud protected that
ldom moro than the slightest m,
pple ever disturhs its mirror-like q,
rmce, although breezcs that will @,
Ail sall'boats along blow through
i the day.
All of the new railways of North M
II Mexico are American, and they II,
. surely thoroughly, slowly M
wing the steamship lines from nm
e Mexican trade, We labor at Ir
q disadvantage, however, aud su
At Is IN the fact that we will not
empt Ia eater To any other ones
lie, even though 10 do So would ue
money In our pockets. There All
peculiar lines of cheap prints end "'
ton made IN Europe that are sold sal
y ON the west coast of MeAico, IL"
ayard finding its WAY 10 any an
Ier part Of the world, aud while 'ul
: commands higher prices and AM
reaI deal OF 1t flnds ready market !
H. Yet II does not "eNactly nh ma
hill," and Americans, probably Ian
n ignorance OF the true wants of at
Sc people, will not mauufactun, gre
nd drive the foreign stun from Tn,
Mexican market, which they nea