Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-09-17
FROM CORONADO.
A Very Interesting and Filthy Let ter From a Citizen Correspond
 ent at Coronado.
CORONADO, Cal. Sept. 6, 1892.

geles, and am firmly convinced that it lE destined to be a large and important center. It has so many natural advan' tages, Is so eligibly situated, and SC many railroads center here that its flu ture will require no assistance from me and as yet 1 have received nothing fol this dlslnterested acknowledgment.
 Los Angeles needs, though, a first class hotel, kept in first-class manner A complete and thorough renovation of the old ones would be material i'm prOvement. at least remove the fly specks from the gas globes. Do you know that you can read a whole page in as small thing as fly speck? And then the fieas! ah, the fleas! one willy wicked, hoOdlum flea murmured to his comrades as turned in: Get on to the Aztec. They all did it. While at Santa Monica l met Maj. J. w. Evans the Phenix boomer. I like to come in contact with such men as the Major when away from home, like the man who has faith in his own state or town and is always ready to give expression to that faith. I don't always believe everything he says of its prospects, and am wagering no large sum that he has full faith in 1t all himself, but, all the same, my heart is with him, Evans is of the class 1 like. He never lets an op- po-turlty escape to enlarge upon the bright outlook of Phenix. When there is no one around whom it is to his inter- est to impress with the importance of his metropolis he corners an A rizonan, and then keeps himself in form by us- ing him for dummy, there beirg no active material in sight he took me in hand. have great faith in Phoenix, our capital, myself, and modestly haz- arded the opinion that in our time we would see it with a population of twen- ty-five thousand. At this the Major came at me with cyclonic movement of a zephyr from the Colorado desert, and said; young man, l shall live to see Phenix the metropolis of the south west, the centre around which shall revolve the lesser lights of Southern California Western Texas and New Mexico, North ern Sonora and all of Arizona. Phenix with population of one hundred thous- and, the centre of the deciduous fruit belt and both ends of the citrus zone. Don't you kuow its just such enthus- iasm as this that makes a place, and don't you know that its absence retards its natural growth, and keeps it back in the rear of its innate advantages, and | fn ,f Tucson have more than our share of it's absence? The only man whom I can recall just now who possesses this fire and vim in Tucson is Levi H. Manning, and Dick Starr comes along after him. YCu will say these are real estate men, and are talking for coin. I don't care whether they are real estate or no estate, their talk is worth money to the com munity, and it always makes me feel better. 1 have no patience with these fellows who can see no good in their own community, why decry every i'm provement, and are ready to jump on anything that takes. them out of their old rut. They are nuisance at home, and no good abroad. They are the mill stone at the neck of the progressive ele- meDt; the brake that Is always ready set when change for the better is suggest ed. l know of no good part in the economy Of nature they are intended to fill. Well, there is lot of things I don't know. Its relief. any way, to have gotten rid of these few reflections, if I did have to go away from home to do it.
 As between Santa Monica and Re- In,, hnf for %H0 1l. I1 situated, but the latter has much the better hotel. At the latter place I met MT. Calvert Wilson of our town. Cal vert was taking his dolce far niente with his accustomed air of ennui and @ pluribus unum. l noticed that certain bright eyes seemed to grow brighter when Calvert came. En psssant, I was small talking here, she was doing the maJor part of it, with charming you lady in pair of gold eye glasses, a sea- side smile and a pair of suspenders. You know the girls all wear them now. She was revelling ln her caustic reflect ions upon our summer climate, and giving me drastic doses Of what she thought of our own dear Arizona in general. She had wonderful fund of misinfor- nation, and her strictures were becom- ing excessively fatiguing. I was en- deavoring to overcome her insu lar pre- judlces, telling her what delightful winter climate we possessed; what q wonderful fruit country it was becom- ing, that 1t was the natural home of the lemon, the lime, the orange, the banana and the fig. She said, "Oh, 1 do so love figs. What varieties do you have?." I informed her that We did not cultivate the tree for its fruit. She sad, "Why, what else can you want of it?" When I informed her that we sim ply cultivate the tree for the summer costume with which it provides us in that climate of which she possessed so intimate knowledge, she said, ,"Yes?" I l eaid, Yes" Then the conversation seemed to drag.
 As to San Diego, we'll, judging entire ly by appearances, we might trust to the undertaken to do the rest. But with such a magnificent harbor there must be something better in store for this old town. The harbor, though, it seems to me, is the only thing they have to draw on to maintain themselves. No innumerable railroads shooting out in every direction as Los Angeles has, no back country tributary to them, no d. rect communication with Tucson. This, however, they hope in time to get by direct line to Yuma.
 The Hotel del Coronado, where I am now writing, is the swellest of swells It was built by MT. Coronado after plans suggested by our own Casa Grande, which he visited in 1540 with Uncle Sammy Hughes, when in search of the seven cities of CIbolo, Tucson being the only one they were able to fully identify as one of the seven, and where Uncle Sammy took up his permanent resi- dence.
 l saw a girl in travelling costume on the platform at Los Angeles the other day that wish ' might describe her to you, but it would make this letter too long. Oh, she was whole hot house of daisies. Well, this infructuos foll y must cease, and am coming home and l may then tell you about her.
 AZTEC.