Show C R S AGAIN 5 I All the Way to Tucson Arizona CHAPTER I NEVADACLUIATia CHANGES DULL TIJIES SKOW CALIFORNIA TOPICS KEARNEY THE EOLANO SALT LAKE CITY April 10 S Editors Herald Sergeant McGillivray of the signal service this city once told me that we had a climate peculiar to this i Ir cality and I nearly thought so when fairly on the C P R E After leaving our valleys we found the road dusty moat of the way westward inN in-N The cold weather had been ai severe in the Sagebrush stat as in Utah bovine and equine carcasses car-casses line the road on each side a mournful commentary on the effect of a hard winter Just now Nevada is dull no boom prevails Mining interests are at 1 discount i is i duller nor a hoe and getting more EO daily Toe Humboldt sink has almost sunk The very dry season of las year has made the north bed of the lake a dusty plain there is however more snow on tile mountains than last year but not so much as we have hal in Utah Westward from Wads worth this is all changed the snow is pied up along the sheds and the houses in eomo places are almost buried When at Truckse i was 4 ° above zero and at Itocklin on the west side of the Sierras it was 62 but California ia 1 month behind other years Strawberries and green peas in March do not not obtain this year Jack Frost has treated the eucalyptus euca-lyptus trees very badly I thousands of them have been frozen this last winter win-ter Many other of the botanical wonders are badly used up prospects for goad crops aro very encouraging all over the state of California every inch of rain adds millions of dollars in value to the cereal I A total failure fail-ure of the wheat crop for one year would bankrupt the state for the productfofjlho mines in the foothills is not quite so much nd it used to be and Californians have to look to agriculture agri-culture as the main prop of the state in the future The newspapers are beginning with commendable good sense to point out the fact that borne manufactures manu-factures must receive moro attention in fact the conditions of trade are undergoing many cbangef five cent pieces are no longer sneered at the day of small things has come to wonderland Poor Kearney and others have been bamed for some ot the causes of dull timeabut this is only talk As far as his railing against some flagrant abases 13 concerned he was right but when communistic ideas were launched forth he showed himself a lunatic The movement has just now got its quietus As a rule those who rail the most against abuses are very poor tools to correct cor-rect them The glaring fact concerning Californias dull times is that everything has been run at a very high pressure and they have now got to come down to economical habits of life more in consonance with agricultural communities athough San Francisco is the cheapest city to live in I know of Very few persons save money and when they do it is rushed into stocks in some instances men become rich but tho majority are cursing their luck and themselves for disposing of their savings so foolishly I has been stated that 50000000 in capital has been frightened away by Kearneyism but it is more the lack of good opportunities for investment invest-ment than a result of Sand Lot tirades in my opinion The act that so many men are out of work in San Francisco is canly accounted for when the extraordinary number of emigrauts arriving daily is considered Most all of them try to stay in San Francisco and this always renders employment difficult to obtain The Chinese question will bee its significance when white men will be content to work for lower wages and be just as economical as the China man is in past year he Celestials were very welcome lo comp but now they are welcome to go They are acute a-cute shrew nation They subscribed sub-scribed 25000 to the Herald Relief Fundand brand their cigars with an Irishman kicking out a Chinaman with the added inscription The Chinese must go Their factories are all running but many of those conducted by white men are closed There is one place where the Chinese are indispensible and that is on the desert portions of the great C P R R Here they seem content very few white men would stay a week in hot weather at some of the places bnt John hai very little ambition and needs less oxygen he can stand i where white men can net it is in just such places that ho seems most useful Speaking of the C 1 B R I must net omit to mention the beautiful depot just erected at Sacramento and alE the ponderous ferry boat Solano that transfers the trains from Benicia to Port Costa thus saving a distance of fifty miles and landing the passengers passen-gers from the east in San Francisco six hours earlier than they arrived before the completion of the ferry steamer Seated comfortably in your oar you run gently on to the steamer without a jar and in a few minutes you are again on terra firma This magnificent magnifi-cent vessel is 424 feet long 116 feE wide 3541 tons burthen She has a carrying capacity of 24 passenger cars of tho largest class or 48 freight cars with locomotive She is in every way a credit to the gigantic company which does up all its work with admirable completeness safety security and celerity is the watchword I started to tell about the Southern Pacific road to Tucson but will resume the subject in chapter I C R SAVAGE |