Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-11-23
A rospector's Notes By the Way.
fMohave Miner. |

nearly due south. This is not the nearest way but is taken on account of water, as this is an all important matter in this country. The road led over an open plain, there was short range of mountains, I was told to keep to the right of them and I would find some Mexican ranches where they were watering stock from wells. In passing over this plain at times 1t looked as though you were Tn great valley bound ly low ranges of hills, they were not high enough to be call ed mountains, at other times you would see openings as far as the eye could reach and you would come to the conclusion that you were on plain broken by low, short groups of hills, like islands on a sea. On this plain ''''re was plenty of grass but dried no springs, and all water had to be raised from wells.
 AS I went along I was overtaken by Mexican who had band of cattle and horses, he told me he came from Sonora where he had ranch with many more cattle and horses than he now had, and in much better stock country, "but," and he hesitated. l told him, here you have security. "Yes," he answered with sigh, "by paying your taxes you have security. If," said he, "Sonora only had gov ernment like this it would be mag nificent country, there the rich rob the poor" In Sonora, he told me, land was held in large bodies and that the poor rented a piece of land and when they had paid rent and water they had little left. I came to a Mex ican ranch where they were hoisting water 15O feet, and every three or four miles there were others. On these ranches the men who were working had their families and each ranch looked like little town. After pass ing the last one I came to the South ern Pacific, the road followed the rail road to Tucson, and splendi droad it is, the accommodations for the hands were of the best, they are well paid and some of the men told me they had been there for years. There. were but two white men on each section the foreman and trackwalker, the fore man gets $50 and the other $6O pel month. The section hands were Mex jeans, they do not employ white men
 Though the road is over a perfectly level country yet they keep an extrs gang on each division. 1 passed th' extra gang, it consisted of 52 China men and two white men. There were
 no ranches until you were within 2 few miles of Tucson.
 Tucson is quite large place, tht
 population IS estimated at from 8,00(
 to 10000, of whom about an eightl
 part are Americans. There are som, fine public buildings, the privat,
 houses are of adobe, there but are few brick buildings. The main street where the principal stores are, is mar . row street which crosses the town Passing on this street you will hea 7 English spoken, but leave that stree in any direction and you are in Mexi co, the people, language, signs and tn {, manner of doing business is all Mexi can. You will meet wagons sellinj "secate," little bundles of alfalfa anC
 sheaves of barley, oats and whea which is cut in the milk, and peddle, out small quantities; also wool an, 2 other articles. Being directed to tn house of Don Ramou, by Mexican
 of whom enquired where would be
 good place to put my horses for feV } days. He had ranch in the town C t about eighteen acres, and little stor s where he sold the produce of his place :, l put my horses in the corral an ? bought ten sheafs of oats and whea : for the sum of twenty-five cents, whic 2 was about all they wanted to ca
 Though so large portion of the pee pie are Mexican they and the Amer cans get along well together, there i { no jar, the children are learning Eng = fish in the schools, and I may add, tha f the American children are learnin f Spanish in the streets.
 Tucson IS reported to have the ables politicians in the Territory, which not saying great deal as there is bu U little inducement for a first clas ,. politician in Arizona st the preser y time. By and bye when the populi
 tion increases, and there is a prospeC v of this Territory becoming stat Il then there will be prizes worth col 't tending for. Tucson has gone in wit
 Phenix and they have got a e the Territorial institutions except th
 prison at Yuma The climate is sai
 to be cooler than Phenix as altitude
 greater, that may be but when I wf there the thermometer ranged frol
 105o to l12o in the middle of the da On the question of statehood all wit ;. whom conversed were totally hostil e or regarded it as farce, the wo1 T. of politicians.
 A. c. LONGMORE.