Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-01-01

! ing, but the explanation is simple.
! is "Hobsons choice" become voluats e
, firemen or be compelled to enter ;
more eXacting military service.
Tho second day was given up to tn.
soldiers parade, etc, and the third anC
/ fourth days to various races. At nigh
the illluminations were quite credit.
able especially on the river front
street. the principal one of the city
There We're five large arches brilliant.
| ly lighted. all the houses on ono side
Of the street the same, while on the
other all the steamers, tugs, schooners
! etc. were decorated and illuminated
racing backward and forward in the
river. The river is, practically. an arm
of the sea, one mile wide, and draws
more than forty feet of water,
One day we spent on Major Har-
mans boat UP the Daule river. which
empties into the Guayas, just above
the city. The scenery on each side was
beautiful. Large haciendas, with great
drCves of cattle, beautiful orange
groves, large mango trees. all laden
with fruit, lent charm to the scenery.
We had supplied ourselves with rifles
and shot-guns, for there were lots OF
kinds of birds 10 shoot But owing to
the movement of the boat and the
width of the river mearly a mile wide)
it was difficult to accomplish much.
The alligators were always found lying
in the sand, at the rivers bank. 1t was
the writer's good luck to shoot an
alligator twelve CT fifteen feet Ions.
Mr.. Robert b. Jones. an American.
vic
in business for many years in Guaya
quill. made quite Il record shooting
when on shore. He killed fifty-two (52)
snipe with one shot. (Stop! don't you
say, what a -'O a thing that l adj
nit, seems almost incredible. He
happened to come across a flock of
them almost as thick as they could
stand. He then counted the number Of
shots in one cartridge. and they were
eighty three.
Our stay in Guayaquil had to end,
and with it our salt sea baths. eating
fresh fish, oysters, shrimps. Holsters.
and some tropical fruits that do not
find their way to Quito. and, rather
Reluctantly, we turned our faces to-
ward the mountains. Because of Quay
aquiPs daily touch with the outs
and going, a much larger foreign ele-
ment dncluding a number of AmeIi
cans), large and attractive business
houses, numerous street car lines. etc.
she seems more like a city in the home
land. Then, this time Of the year. the
climate there is delightful. thing
that cannot be said of it for four or
five months of the year.
slide late in the afternoon. You ask
what the slide is? You would enjoy
seeing t better thaa -s,dng any de
scription | can give of it, At this point
the canyon is about four hundred feet
wide the railroad going up it on al
four an! one-half per cert grade the
walls hundreds of feet high allow the
river. \ month since. one or tho
stranGesu of phenomena occurred here.
A Large slice of tha mountain came
down ana instead CT covering the rail
road track and the ri :er slipped under
the ira * and raised it up over forty
feet, filing the canyon from side to side
and making an effective dam for the
river. No one can determine how this
was done. One theory is that there
must have been a subterranean upheav-
mountain slid. Certain il is. the entire
canyon was filled to the depth of over
forty feet and the railroad track was
left intact on top of it, except where the
spikes were drawn to permit the break
Ing of the track.
BY the aid of the immense body of
water thus damned up, they were able.
in short time. to clear out one slide.
, Ia l.
sumed business when a second slide
came this time covering the track to d
depth Of more than thirty feet. Moth
ing daunted. they went to work and by
the help of the water. cleared out one
side ready to lay the track again. when
Z he third slide came. These three
slides cover a space of about two thou
sand feet in length. Major Harmon es-
Inmates that many million cubic yards
If clay and rock were moved hundreds
Of feet by these slides. not all reaching
the canyon. Pack of the river at this
point was a large section of tabIeland
under cultivation. These slides reached
so far back more than a mile) as to de-
stroy five or six farms taking with them
houses. cattle. horses. etc. One farmer
had forty burrOs carried down and for
ever buried. The strange thing is that
for thousands Cf-years, so far as can be
seen. no slide ever occurred there be-
fore. The construction of the railroad !
could not be the cause. for it was on the !
opposite Side of the river The railroad
company. while awaiting Developments. |
has taken out most of the slides and |
built tram car line over the two
ihousand feet to connect the two ends |
IF the road over which they transport |
'asgaSe freight, etc. on push ca,s. |
There are several hundred men. in re- !
iefs. constantly at work here day and |
n'ght All Of these things make an !
enormous expense fer the railroad. an |
American company, but under its con-
rect with this government il will he
able. eventually, to recover it all of the
government. most fortunate thing for
he company. The slide caught the
abroad without a passenger car on its