Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-01
IN SOUTHERN SEAS.
VOYAGE AROUND THE CALIFOR-
MAN PENINSULA.
An Era of Unprecedented Progress
and Good Government in
Mexico.
Lspec,aI Correspondence of the REcoRD-Ux1os.I

IspeclaI Correspondence of the RECoRD-U UNION. !
OK BOARD THE S. S. NEwBERN.
The feelings of that adventurous mar
liner, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, when he
sailed these then newly discovered waters
three centuries and half ago, found an echo
in your correspondents breast when she
boarded the shaky little steamer that was to
bear her over strange waters into regions
comparatively unknown to the world at
large. Just three hundred and forty-seven
years since the Portuguese navigator dis
covered the beautiful bay, which he
christened San Diego, after his spiritual
patron, Saint James, and a morning in
the middle Of last winter when | sailed
ont of it-bound, as he was, for VOYAGE
around the long and narrow peninsula.
which from that day to this, till within
the last four years, has remained literal
terra Iacognitd.
A boy with bell and a stentorian voice
rushed up and down the decks, ringing
with might and main, and shouting, "All
ashore not going down below"-the am
blguous sentence referring to the south
ward journey. There were hasty hand
shaking, a sound Of kisses like the smoth-
cred popping of champagne corks,
shurrying of feet and cloud of petticoats
tiuttering over the gang-plank, chorus of
GdloS and goodbye, waving hankerchiefs
from shore and ship, few tears here and
there-and we were at sea again, with the
land fading rapidly from view. Midwin-
ter at the north, but
SUMMER IN THESE TROPIC SEAS
The sky, "like a ceiling of goebliu
tapestry, under creamy lace-work of
cloud" the smooth water, true to its early
name, Pacific, Pickering with gray lights
and green shadows; and a Jolly company
on board, as gay and comfortable in the
sweet sunshine and crisp salt air as if the
few boards between themselves and bot
tomless abyss were indestructible, and
storm and sickness and shipwreck but the
ghoStly phantasmagOria of dreams
Viewed from a distance, in the light of
early morning, the city of San Diego looks
like the picture Ofan Oriental metropolis,
with its palms and flowers in front and
background of mesa lands and majestic
mountains, the immense Hotel del COro-
nadO upon the adjacent island, shining in
the sun like white-walled mosque on
the banks of the Ganges or the Godaverv.
Then comes Point Iona, still wrapped
IN veil of mist, showing only his tall
lighthouse, lifting a white lantern 462
feet above the level of the sea. The
boundary line between the United States
and Mexico is marked by an obelisk of
white marble, rising twenty feet above its
lofty pedestal. 1t stands on what the
sailors now call Monumental Point, low
table-land near the edge of the bluff three
hundred yards or more from the beach but
plainly visible from the decks of passing
vessels. The United States Coast Survey
of 1871 determined its geographical posi-
ton as latitude so 81 So, As \, longi-
tUde ll7o o. 32", 81 W., and ten miles
southwest from Iona Lighthouse This
monument also marks the northern initial
point of that valuable survey called Coast
of Mexico, from its northern boundary to
Cape Corrientcs, including the Gulf of
Lower California" made by Commander
George Denny Of the United States ship
NarrIsansett. BY the way,
It Is WORTHY OF REMARK
That all vessels, Mexican and foreign,
which cruise these waters must sail bv
American charts none of account having
ever been made by Mexicans
The sun is midway between horizon and
meridian as we cross the imaginary line
between the two Republics, and it is hard
10 realize-with the same sky above us,
the same waters below, the same soft.
warm air and distant mountain chain I'M
broken-that we are suddenly within the
domain of 4 foreign Government, under
another flag and amenable to laws made
by a Power that is not always friendly at
heart to their stranger neighbors. Yet the
true citizen of either Republic will extend
t. most Of the others that fraternal regard
that SO well becomes the Chief Executives
of the sister nations President Cleve-
lands administration inaugurated a wise
policy Of international courtesy, which
met with ready and cheerful response from
MeXiCo'S greatest statesmen, General
Diaz and his Cabinet. \ citizen of the
latter country can come to Upper Cali
tornia or to any other portion of the
United States, purchase lands and eniov
them; and why should not citizens of the
United States enjoy the same privileges in
Mexico? We hear a great deal about the
remarkable generosity of the Mexican
Government in ceding to Americans 50
much land in Lower California and other
portions Of Mexico; but YOU may be sure
that in every transaction our southern
neighbors are the gamers, by getting in
class of people who have capital to invest
and push enough to develop the resources
of
A LONG NEGLECTED COUNTRY,
Which otherwise might remain till dooms-
day in its normal Comatose condition.
The Mexican Government has recently
issued a report on the colonization of for
eigners in its territory Of Baa California,
by which it appears that more than six
thousand Englishmen and Americans have
settled therein during the last four years;
and it also claims that within six years
Mexico's Treasury has contributed more
than a million and a half dollars toward
the iIIrtherance of the colonizing schemes.
All over Mexico to-day there are more
representatives of foreign capital than
ever before. They represent syndicates-
American, English, German and French
who desire to build railroads. dig canals,
open up mines and purchase lands; and
they offer cash on these investments on
easier terms than were ever before known
in the history of the country.
Mexico is not rushing to ruin, rs the
croakers predict, but on the contrary
mainly through the foreign influence
aforeSaid-she has entered upon an era OF
unprecedented progress and good govern
ment. Her immense agricultural re-
sources are yet undeveloped, her valuable
forests of dry and cabinet woods are
scarcely touched, and all her manufactur-
ing interest are in their infancy, affordiug
ample scope for the employment of almost
unlimited capital.
THE NEW LOAN
Which the Mexican Government made in
Europe of S5O,0O0,OO0 in gold shows the
confidence abroad in the Diaz Administra-
ton, and a growing conviction that the
Anglo-Saxon race is not the only one las
mas so often been aSserted) capable of self
government. The more recent offer of
$4,000, 600 more at the same figures makes
this assertion doubly strong. The great
contract for the drainage of the valley of
Mexico taken by English capitalists is a
further proof of the confidence of moneyed
men of Europe in Mexicos future, and the