Wichita eagle., 1889-05-19

for American Manufacturers Of Textile
Goods-A Visit to San Vicente Cave-An
Interesting Relic of the Mexican War.
copyrighted 1881
AMERICAS EXPEDITION
GUAYMAS, SONORA, Mexico,
March 81, 1889. !
t The heading of this article shows that we
are now on the Pacific slope of Northern
Mexico, and preparing for our contemplated
second raid into the Sierra Madra mount
aims, aboutthe parallel of Guaymas, or prob
4 ably a little farther to the south / had
made up my mind before coming to this
port, the principal one of the Gulf of Cali
fornia, that there would be very little TO say
regarding it, as it is not only on line of
railway, or rather at its terminus, but also
on one or two lines Of steamship travel. l
therefore concluded it would be as well
known as Coney Island to New Workers or
any other Eastern watering place that we
could recall. L found, on the contrary, that
il practically is never visited by tourists. l
could lind nothing about it in any Of my
numerous guide-boolzs and volumes de-
voted to Mexico, but did find a great deal of
snterest in the typical old town to deviate
far enough from my intentions to give my
readers the benefit of what is novel and in
teresdng. The Sonora railway, an extern
Sion of the AtchlsoB, Topeka q Santa Fe,
reached here some seven or eight years ago,
and every thing was ready TO be 'boomed'
as it were.
A hotel to cost a quarter OF million was
started on beautiful knoll overlooking the
picturesque harbor, but after about one
tenth that amount had been put into the
foundation and carriage-way leading up the
bill, it was given up. 1t may not be map
propriate to say that all of Guaymas is very
much like that fine hotel; it is all fine
foundation, well enough built indeed, but
not much of any thing else. And surely it
is good foundation for a winter resort il
ever one existed. The first day you arrive
you get 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, after
being used to the low, fiat coasts of Eastern
Mexico, and even those of the more south
ern ports on the Pacific side. 1t is COM
pletely land locked and swarms with hun
dred kinds of fishes. 1t looks not unlike
the harbor of San Francisco, IN California,
but while it is smaller 1t is also far more
scenic in the many beautiful vistas 1t opens
tosight from the various points as one sails
over its tortuous waters running deep into
the land and studded with beautiful islands.
II it should ever become popular as WIN
ter resort-and the only reason it has not
become so long before is in the fact that
there have been no active, energetic people
to appreciate it and take advantage of the
many offerings of nature to convert 1t into
one-no finer fishing or sailing could be had
than in the harbor of Guaymas and the
Gulf Of California. A constant sea or land
breeze is blowing summer and winter, but
never hard enough to make the waters dam
gerous. have been fishing several times,
and certainly the piscatorial bill of fare, as
shown by my experience, has been an ex-
tremely varied one. The same afternoon,
while off the heads Of the harOor eau ght
shark measuring a little over six feet in
length which gave me tussle Of from ten
minutes to quarter of an hour In length
before l could pull it alongside and plunge
q knife into its heart, not so much alto
Cether to end its safferings as to end the
sufferings of other and better fish and
probably a human being or two at some
tune III The future.
Another fish that we caught, and which the
people here call bocd d,Nce Sweet nouth)
looked like German carp, witt pale blue
head. They weighed from Two TO four
pounds and seemed to run in schools al
together, with no truants to be found what
ever on the outside of the school. One
could fish day for the bocd duJcc and never
get bite, but the second he got one,
either by the approach Of the school or
change Of position on his part, he can haul