The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1889-09-26
The Bay and City Of Guaymas.
A SECTION OF ABORTINE ''BOOMS'' TO WHICH
HADES Is A SUMMER RESORT.
ICorreS Spondence of the Journal

HADES Is A SUMMER RESORT.
correspondence of the journal
GUAYMAs. MEXICo, 1889. The magnificent
bay, which gives this region its singular name
| pronounced Wv-masl il unquestionabIy the
most beautiful body Of water of it, kind il
America, if not in the world.
| saw it first, as most Northern tourists do
coming down by rail, Via. branch of tn,
| Southern Pacific; and like everybody else wa
| wild with delight as the glorious prospect un.
folded-oblivious Of heat 120 deg in the shade
alkai p0lc0 (dust that pricks the flesh like
needles, and the danger Of leaving ones NOR.
tai remains in some cotfinless ditch. dug to re-
ceiye the annual holocaust of yellow fever vic.
| Tins
Guaym has been i'll direct communication
with the United States for some years, by
means of the Sonora railroad. which Joins the
| Southern Pacific at Benson, Arizona. The
train passes through Hermosila-the capital
| of the Mexican state of Sonora about
o'clock in the morning. giving passengers an
opportunity to breakfast there. Guaymas, sc
| miles distant, is the second city. in point of
| population, in the State, and the most impor-
tant port on the Gulf coast of California. 1t
| lies about 265 miles below the boundary line of
| the t s.. and 353 miles from Benson.
Properly speaking the Sonora railway begins
| at Los NOgales. only S. miles above the MeXi-
can frontier, that between Nogales and Benson
being the Arizona Il New Mexico line They
are one system. however, connecting with the
/ well
| with the southern Pacific. and charge at the
rate of six cents a mile on through tickets al
| lowing only very limited amount of luggage
at that. In fact, if there is mean railway
company in the country, with boorish, unac-
commodating and pigyish officials from highest
to lowest it is this great system of the far
| Southwest. Having things all their own way,
| with no present prospect of competition or OPP
position, is not good for railway magnates any
more than for men.
Whatever time of wear Nou Journey this Way,
except during a few weeks near the close of
| the long. dry season. or at the height of the
| rainy. YOU are sure of the most delightful
weather. leaving nothing to be desired in the
| way of blue skies and balmy airs, as one slides
| between the bills into valleys clothed with the
| verdurc of perpetual summer, the smiling
landscape backed on either hand by the grand
| eur of mountain ranges.
| As it approaches the Sea the road veers to
the western side of the great interior basin and
at last darting suddenly into the midst of the
| bordering hills, brings up on the very brink of
| GuaymaS Bay. 50 closely do rocky heights
| crowd in that the train is actually compelled to
| put to sea in ORDER to make further progress,
and the track is carried on piles across a broad
| ann of the bay. until it reaches point where
footing on terra tirma can again be secured,
| And when gained the footing Is OF the flrm-
est, consisting Of solid rock of unknown thick
ness, the road-bed having been blasted out of
the bases of the hills.
tt this stage of the journey the most b!0Se
passengers are Invariably aglow with enthusi-
aSm. Nkirting closely along the shore for
miles the bay is sometimes completely hidden
by a bold promontory. or by one of the num-
crous high rorkv islands; then its broad and
beautiful cXpanse bursts suddenly into view
again. The color of the water is the most in
tense ever behcld, the deep, bjuish-green pc
culiar to tropic >ea~, never seen elsewhere in
full intensity, and hardly TO be i'm; 9iEed unless
once seen. ON its farther side tfuaymas Bay