Show 4 IN MEXICAN WATERS v The Heralds Correspondent 01 the San Diego Bay PRESIDENT CLEVELANDS POLICY The Foreigners In Lower California ana the Investments they are Making Innta BuuJa r Ox BOARD run STEAMSUII NEWBEHX May 20 lSS9Special Correspondence of THE HEUAID The feelings of that adventurous ad-venturous mariner Juan Rodriguez Cab rillo when he sailed these then newlydis covered waters three centuries and a hal j ago found an echo in your correspondents breast when she boarded the shaky little steamer that was to bear her over strange watcrsinto rojloiis comparatively unknown to the world at lavc Jest ati years since the Portugese iiuvteator discovered the beautiful bay which he christened San Diego after his spiritual patron Saint 1 James nell a morning in the middle of last winter whea I sailed out of itbound as he was for a voyage around the long and narrow peninsula which from that day to this till within the Izst four wars has remained re-mained a literal terra incj2iii a I A boy with a calL and stentorian voice rushed up and down the decks ringing with might and main and shouting All ashore not going down belowthe ambiguous ambig-uous sentence relcrriug to the southward journey not t J the hold or ran IXFCKVAI UEDIOXS There were haty handshakes a sound of kisses like the smothered popping of champagne corks a hurrying ot feet and a cloud of petticoats fluttering ever the gangplank gang-plank n chorus of iilfos and goodbye waving handkerchiefs from shore and ship a few tears lallipg here and there and ive were at sea again with the land fading rapidly from view Midwinter at the north but summer in these tropic easthe sky like a ceiling of goblin tapestry under a creamy lace work of cloud the smooth water true to its early name 1aeiftco flickering with gray lights and green shadows and a jolly company com-pany on board as gay and comlortable in the sweet sunshine and crisp suit air as if the few boartis between tucmselves and bottomless abysses were indestructable and storm and sickness aud shipwreck but the ghastly phantasmagoria or dreams Viewed from a distance in the lisut of early morning the citj of San Diego looks like the picture of an oriental metropolis to p with its palms and flowers in front and r background of IIMWI lauds and majestic mountiiiiiSj and the immense Hotel del Cor onada upon the Adjacent island shining in the sun like a whitewulled mosque on the banks of the Ganges or the Godavery Then comes Point LOCIU still vrappeu in a veil of mist showing only his tall light house lifting a white lantern 44t j feet above the level of the sea The boundary Hue between the Unit il I States and Mexico is marked by an obelisk of white marble i rising twenty Icet aboe its lofty pedestal I It stands on what the sailors now call Monumental j Mon-umental Point a low table lain near the edge of the bluff three nun ltL yards or I more from the beuch but plainly visible from the decks ol passing vessels < The United States coast su roy of Iil determined de-termined its geographic position as latitude lati-tude y2 do m > r8 sec 40 north Longitude 117 deg 7 min 32 sec 37 west and ten iiiues s > Llncot from Lrmia lighthouse 1 light-house This monument also marks the northern initial point < > tnt valuable survey sur-vey called coati ACXICJ from its northern north-ern boundary to Cape l err untcs including the Glut of Caliioruia niade by Commander Com-mander George Deaev of tnt United States steamship Narrigansett By the way it is worthy of remark that aJ vessels Meat can and foreign which cruise these Mexican waters must sail by American charts none of account having ever been made by Mexicans Mex-icans The sun is midway between horizon and meridian as we cross the imaginary line between be-tween the two republics and it is hard to realizewith the some sky above us the same waters below tie same soft warm air and distant ino jutoiii chain unbroken that we are suddenly within time domain of a foreign government unuer another flag amenable to laws made 1y I a power that is not always friendly at heart to their stronger neichbors Yet the true citizen of either republic will extend to those of the other that fraternal regard which so well becomes the chief executives of the sister nation President Clevelands administration ad-ministration inaugurated A WISE roLicr of international courtesy which met with ready and cheerful response from Mexicos I greatest statesmen President Diaz and his J cabinet A citizen of the latter country can come to Upper California or to any other portion of the United States and purchase pur-chase lands and enjoy them and why should not citizens of the United States enjoy the same privileges in Mexico We hear a great deal about the remarkable generosity of the Mexican government in ceding to Americans so much land in Lower California and other portions of Mexico but you may be very sure that in every transaction our southern neighbors are the gainers by getting in a class of people who have capital to invest and push enough to develop the resources of a longneglected country which otherwise might remain till doomsday in its normal comatose condition I Tho Mexican government has recently issued a report on the colonization of foreigners for-eigners in its territory of Baja California by which it appears that more than six thousand Ergiishmen and Americans have settled therein during the last four yars and it also claims that within six years Mexicos treasury has contributed more than a million and a half of dollars toward the furtherance of the colonizing schemes All over Mexico today there are more representatives of foreign capital than ever before They represent syndicates Anier jean English German and French WHO DCMKCTO KLIIl RAILROADS dig canals open up mines and purchase lands and they offer cash on these investments invest-ments on easier terms than were ever before be-fore known in the history of the country Mexico is not rushing to ruin as the croakers predict but on the contrary mainly through the foreign influence aforesaid afore-said she has entered upon an era of uu irocedented progress and good government Her immeiiso agricultural resources ave yet undeveloped her valuable forests of dye ind cabinet wood are scarcely touched and ail h > r manufacturing interests are in heir infancy affording ample scope for he employ me nt of almost unlimited ea nita The new loan which the Mexican government govern-ment made in Europe of 00U900 in golu shows eonlideiHo abroad in the Diaz administration ad-ministration and a growing conviction that the An loSaxnii race is not the only one us has so often IMVH asserted capable of self government The more reoeiit offer of V 0f > 0 aJ < niori at tic saaie figures make this sispiTtioii doubly strong The great < ontract fo the drainage of the valley of Mexico talvoi by En lisi capitilists is a further proof of the confidence of moneyed men of Europe Mexicos future aul the millions already invested in mines and rail reads of thrifty mill cautious Americans is another proof From the golden age of the I citrus down there has never been a time ill Mexicos history when her prospects were so bright as toiluy Among other straws which show the war of the wind may Its mentioned the fact hat tie Mexican senate has at last passed the bill making education compulsory in all partS of the republic Seven years ago it was passed by the chamber of deputies but failed in the higher house More recently re-cently a similar bill passed both houses re uiriiiEr compulsory education in the fed elUl district i and territories only There are many bitter foes to the Diaz admiuis ration but they are mainly of the old clerical party partJAX AX I5UE OF TilE PA > T which is now struggling in the throes of approaching ap-proaching dissolution Among them are the socalled religious fanatics who caused so much bloodshed in Guanajuato the other daythose who prefer tee churches to one schoolhouse who rather have a muletraelt through the forest than a railway leading to prosperous cities and gloat over the sad spectacle of wasting revolution and men of the same race shooting shoot-ing each other down because of theological and political abstractions Soon after entering Mexican waters the coast trends oil in a southerly direction to Descansq Point R bluff sibsut eighty loot high which sonic Mexican mariner for unknown un-known reasons named Point of Rest A few miles inland rises a low range of hills and back of these a loftier mountain chain averaging o000 feet in height From Descanso bay to Salsipudes Point are sandy coasts with an occasional rocky cliff standing alone like a sentinel on duty Even in midwinter the rime lands that slope to the sea are clothed in richest green and jeweled with wild flowers some of wg hji l the hills being yellow as gold to their very tops with California poppies and oxeye daisies The captain tells us that hereabouts there is no anchorage the longest lines having failed to find bottom only thre miles fit m shore Some of the passengers ivnue themselves by trolling for Spanish uVuk erel using hooks baited with bits of reined white flannel making frequent hauls offish of-fish weighing from eight to twelve pounds These diplomatic denizens of the deep so near to the boundary line seem determined to preserve a strict neutrality so far as national colors are concerned for while they may bo readily captured with red and white they utterly decline to bite at all if the blue of the American flag is added or the green of tho Mexican Cape San Migui the northern limit nf Todos Santos Ail Sjints tav s s be d point 200 feet high backed by nib neiL tier above tie Tteii icnias EuscnudrL Pointa towerlike bluff 400 feet high with an enormous Held of kelp at its foot These gigantic seaflowers sprawl and writhe over the water like so many serpents trailing trail-ing their vines and blossoms for miles s > o thick in some places that a canoe could hardly penetrate the mass Thy hollow beetshaped bulbs are gathered by the Chinese Chi-nese and Indians and preserved or candied in noney or molasses making a ditto is not disagreeable to the taste though something of the aiiient and fishy odorof seagrowths I clings to it still From Eiiseiada Point to Punta Bandit the coast curves around in ascinicircuUr form i with rondos Santos bay between I A JtOCXT HEADLAND I is Punta Bunda rising abruptly net of the water > 00 feet East of it is a low sand beach flanked by mountains Numerous detached rooks line the southern shore and from its cliff a rocky ledge extends far out into the sea This was a famous whaling station in former years and tons of dry hfino lii hliTihinfr nrt the hrorli Tpfvtt Puuta Bunila and Ensenada town just back of the celebrated beach drive we cau see the nfueh advertised but embryo iiti of San Carlos consisting of exactly two houses handsoma ones however whose present ownership is uncertain The city of the future in theory if not ill fat is indicated by a long strip of flowci strewn valley carefilly staked out into lots Broad avenues ninnint over the hills to nowhere are kept carefully cleared of wcds nliil under brash But nothing cuu l ceop down the irrepressible l wild flowers that run riot over the whole peninsula freely as in the days of Aztec drcamhooj before busybrained speculators undertook to transform it into a Yankee metropolis There is Diaz avenue amid 1 Session avenue and many more all richly carpeted with myriads of small yellow blossoms springing up as close together as their tiny stems can stand No wonder that California Upper and Lower has boon dubbed th oklcn state the hl land of gold et cetera when even its highways and bj ways are thus laved with gold Around a point of projcctin rock whrre foamcapped waves make UTJMC on iriv shore the vessel is slowly steered up to the long pier of Ensenada This > s the iniy lmer we shall encountrin aJoar southwr I ourney so we will make the mot ot it by going ashore Every other port all around the peninsula aud DOWN THE WEiTERX COASTS of Mexico has no such conveniences for I seagoing travelers Vessels anchor a loner distance out from shore and if passengers insist upon landing they must clamber down over the sloe of the ship into tiny boats tossing bcneath and be rowed ashore at the risk of a wetting in the surf In such emergencies it is best to make a bar rain beforehand for the round trip with the bare egged barsheaded native who I rows you ashore in his dugout or canoe for ho knows more than his appearance would indicate He may charge you twenty five cents to take you ashore and 5 to bring you back arain knowing that come back j ou must and will at any price FANNie B WARD |