The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
A SAIL ON THE BAY.
The Bathing Suits Used by The
Ladies of Guaymas.
THEPECUJIAR HOTELS OF MEXICO.
The European Plan-0rder What You Want
And Take What You Can Get
Sam Brannan.

NIUA1AAS, icONORA, OCI, IL. 1901 sDpG-
cial correspondence of THE HERALD. "A
visit to this section without a sail on the
beautiful bay would be as incomplete as
the play of "Hamlet" with the Prince of
Denmark left out. Every evening at
about the sunset hour the waters swarm
with yachts and rowboats of every de-
scription
PILED WITH MERRY PEOPLE
seeking relief from the heat of the day,
and from many little craft strains of
music are wafted-the tinkling of guitars
and mandollns, ''the lascvious blessings
of the Lutte" or the vocal notes of some
Castilian love song.
In such an hour even a resident of
Hades-like Guaymas may be contented
with his surroundings. Floating idly in a
shallop propelled by a silent Yaqui, you
watch the changing mountains putting on
their evening gowns of purple hue-moun-
tains on both sides, covering the islands
and the mainland; long lines of noun
tains with ragged outlines and sharp cones
standing like sentinelS here and there;
mountains blue, pale gray, black, amethyst
brown-mountains everywhere with their
ups III Jllt ClOuuS anu CIDCludl SuLuLlCE
at their feet. There are
SHELTERED CovEs AND NooKs
innumerable, where duck and other wild
fowl sail in the shallow waters, where the
bathing is good and the fishing said to be
the best in the would. The vast bay is lit
orally alive with fish, from the biggest
sharks to shrimps not a span long, and the
particularly those of the Yaqui
river near where it empties into the gulf
are excellent, though very small. But
there are are few fishermen among these
lazy people, the principal purveyors for all
the markets being Indians from farther
down the coast, the Yaquis and Mayos,
who are also agriculturists, and the latter
tribe so wise as to deny the white man
residence within their borders. Turtles of
immense size are frequently caught here.
saw the remains of one on the beach which
was said to have weighed between nine
hundred and one thousand pounds.
Notwithstanding the presence of sharks
in the bay,
THE POPULACE BATTLE WITHOUT FEAR
along the fine beach that fronts this city,
hundreds of ladies going in every after
tRoon about 4 O'clock, which is here the
fashionable hour winter and summer for
that exercise, the hills to the west of the
beach shading it from the rays of the de-
ClllllllB sui ne luCu-lGdIGu -lldu eat
er'' is not likely to come close to so popu-
lOus a shore where the water is shallow
yet there have been instances within the
last few years of air-breadth escapes, in
the loss OF an arm or leg by bathers who
ventured out too far.
There are no bath houses or other con-
veniences for the public use. Bathers of
the better class keep suits of their own
GENERALLY old calico wrappers, or Mother
Hubbard's of unbleached cotton), but there
are many natives, even of the gentler sex,
who do not stand upon any such ceremony, |
but, seeking some comparatively secluded
spot, divest themselves of every stitch OF
raimeut Tor, at least, of all but one scant
white garmen), plunge in unpampered and
DEFY THE WORLD TO INTERFERE
with their enjoyment.
There is another beach on the gulf proper
four and half miles from the town, over
the hills to the westward. Here one has L |
distinct view of the sea of Cortez-that |
magnificent expanse of blue green, brilliant |
water which attracted so many adventurers |
nearly four centuries ago. A fine hotel is
TO be erected at this point, which will some
day, perhaps, become fashionable seaside |
resort, not only for Guyamascans, but for
citizens Of the nearby United States the
former seeking relief from excessive heat,
the latter from the cold of their respective
homes On the last mentioned beach we
found many beautiful shells, among them
a Success covered outside with long, sharp
points, like horns, andin highly polished
and painted by the hand of nature in vary
ing tints of rose, pink, lavender, yellow,
pearl and red.
y Ac ,oss the hills back of the town, eight
or ten miles away, is a good agricultural
country, with some fine ranches and vine i
yards. Prominent among the ranchmen is
Id Er,i1I DAls !
the illustrious CrusO, but an exile from
the United States-who owns a farm here
which is model Of
wnAT ENLIGHTENED INDUSTRY CAN ACCOM-
PLIsH
in this genial cline in the culture of trop-
zeal and semi tropical products. This belt
of arabic land, the nearest to the town, eX-
teEds away back into the country several
hundred miles.
Another prominent character Of Quay
mas, until recently, was Mr.. Sam Brannan,
formerly of San Francisco, where he was
a person Of great consequence, wealth and |
A few years ago he obtained
from the Mexican government 4 large
grant Of land in return for services rem
dered in the way of loans during some of |
the civil connections that have so fire.
quently in the past distracted poor Mexico.
he came down here with
n great flourish Of trumpets and inau-
a system of American immigration,
on a grand scale, into his new province,
which r ally was equal to many a kingdom
in extent, including within its limits the
great Yaqui valley. 1t was not long, how
ever, before the government declared the
grant invalid-whether through some
original defect or failure on his part to
comply with its conditions do not know
and the land reverted to the state
D1sHEARTENED OVER HIS FAIL
URE,
the disappointed man who thus just missed
a kingly estate, "took to drink" as they
say, or rather drink took him into its
fateful clutches, completely wrecking his
once brilliant genius and slowly but surely
sinking him into an inebriate's grave.
Among the several hotels of this flour
ishing seaport, that called the Cosmopolitan
is perhaps the best, because kept by
busting little Frenchman who not only ap
preciates the merits of sea food, but knows
how to serve the best fish, turtles, crabs,
on sters, shr;mps, Holsters, etc, and keeps a
cook who prepares them to perfection.
But that is all one can consclentlously say
in favor of the house. Yet, in spite of the
biggest bugs that ever crawled and the
most active fieas that ever pestered weary
traveller, one cannot help rather enjoying
Ouu llllA-oo Il AChSAJ AZ ooAAS VI 10 OF
1ointments, so Mexican in others, and
so THOROUGHLY FOREIGN THROUGHOUT
% anything ever seen at the north. 1t is
quilt in the prevailing style of the place
one story high, the rooms surrounding a
porto and opening into it by means of a
corridor running all around the inside.
Most of the apartments have no windows
at all, except a small opening in the great
wooden door that opens into the corridor.
Close it and Won are in total darkness: