The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-22
WILD WITH DELIGHT.
The Views UnfoIded to a Herald
Correspondent.
GUAYMAs ANDTHE UNITED STATES
A Mean and PiggiSh Set of Railway Men
The Beautiful BAY and the
Picturesque Sdenes.

GUAYMAs, Mexico, September Q, 1859
Especial Correspondence of TIE HERALD. |
The magnificent bay which gives this
region its singular name pronounced
Wy-mas) is unquestionably the most beau
tiful body of water of its kind in America,
if not in the world.
| I saw it first, as most northern tourists
do, coming down by rail via a branch of
the Southern Pacific, and like everybody
else, was
WILD WITH DELIGHT
as the glorious prospect unfolded-Oblivi-
GUS of heat 120 degrees in the shade, alkali
polvo dust that pricks the flesh like
needles, and the danger of leaving ones
mortal II mains in some coffinless ditch dug
to receive the annual holocaust of yellow
fever victims.
Guaymas has been in direct communica-
ton 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 H err
mosillo-the capitol of the Mexican state
of Sonora-about Z O'Clock in the morning,
giving passengers an opportunity to break
fast there. Guaymas, ninety miles distant,
is the second city, in point of population, in
the state and the most important port on
the gulf coast of California. II lies about
two hundred and siXty-five miles below the
boundary line of the United States and
353 miles from Benson.
Properly speaking, the Sonora railway
begins at Los Nogales, only lightweight
miles above the Mexican frontier, that be-
tween Nogales and Benson being the
Arizona & Mexico line They are one
system however connecting with the
Atchison, Topeka g. Santa E'e, as well as
with the Southern Pacific, and charge at
the rate of cents a mile on through
tickets, allowing only a limited amount of
luggage at that. In fact, if there is a mean
railway company in the country, with boor
ish, unaccommodating and piggish officials
from highest to lowest, it is this great sys-
TEN of the far southwest. Having things
all their own way, with no present pros
pect of competition or opposition, is not
good for railway magnates any more than
for men.
Whatever time of year you journey this
way, except during 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 be-
tween the hills into valleys clothed with
the verdure of perpetual summer the
smiling landscape backed on either hand by
the grandeur of mountain ranges.
As it approaches the sea, the road runs to
the western side of the great interior basin
and at last darting suddenly into the midst
of the bordering hills, being up on the very
brink of GuaymaS bay. So 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 arm of The
bay, until it reaches point where a foot
ing on terra hrma can again be secured.
And when gained, the footing is of the
tirmest, consisting Of solid rock of unknown
thickness, the road-bed having been blasted
out of the bases of the hills.
At this stage of the journey, the most
blase passengers are invariably aglOw with
enthusiasm. Skirting closely along the
shore for miles, the bay is sometimes com
pletely hidden by bold promontory, or by
one of the numerous high, rocky islands;
then its broad and beautiful eXpanse bursts
suddenly into view again. The color of the
water is the most intense | ever beheld-
the deep, blulsh-green peculiar to trOpic
seas. never seen elsewhere in full intensity
anu lLdIuly W NC IIld8luGu unless OnC6 seen.
On its farther side, Guaymas bay is separ-
ated from the gulf of California by low,
sandy beach, which rapidly developed into
a barrier of precipitous hills; between
which, far in the distance, one can family
discern the outlet-this apparently narrow
gate which affords the only entrance to the
land-locked harbor With its irregular
outlines, brilliant hues, picturesque islands
and mountainous shores, it seems to one
sweeping along these borders that the wide
world cannot show more splendid scene
But the climax is not yet reached. This
is only the outer bay. Separated from it
by headlands and hills, every one of which
is an island, is the inner bay, on whose edge
the city of Guaymas is located. Though
much smaller than the outer bay, the inner
is, if possible, the lovelier of the two-its
calm, green waters, literally Graded in
mountains, seeming to sleep in the sun
shine, the hiily barriers that separate it
from the sea lifting themselves even higher
than those mountains which guard its en-
trance.
In the rear of the inner bay the heights
recede a little leaving plateau, irregular
in shape, extending several miles