Excellent Advice to the Emigrant Traveler
Is given by the California Immigrant Union, No. 248 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, which, if heeded, will be of service:
1. Buy your tickets for passage on railroad or steamboat, only at the office, before starting. Many of the runners who offer tickets for sale in the streets are swindlers. If you intend to go in a steamer or ship, examine the vessel before getting your ticket, and engage a particular berth or room in a part of the vessel that is clean, well ventilated and just comfortably warm.
2. Never show your money nor let any stranger know that you have any. Thieves prefer to rob emigrants, who generally carry money with them, and cannot stop to prosecute them, and have no acquaintances to aid in the prosecution. Do not mention the fact that you are an emigrant to persons who have no business to know it.
3. Never carry any large sum of money with you; you can always buy drafts at banks, and if you are going to a strange place you can give your photograph to the banker to forward to your destination, so that you can be identified without trouble when you want to draw your money.
4. Avoid those strangers who claim to be old acquaintances, and whom you do not recollect. A certain class of thieves claim the acquaintance of ignorant countrymen whom they want to rob.
5. Do not drink at the solicitation of strangers; the first point of the thief is to intoxicate or drug his victim.
6. Do not play cards for money with strangers; in many cases they confederate to rob emigrants.
7. Travel in company with old friends, if possible, and do not leave them. Thieves prefer to take their victims one at a time.
8. If you see anybody pick up a full pocket-book, and he offers it to you for a small sum; or if you see some men playing cards, and you are requested to bet on some point where it seems certain that you must win; or it you see an auctioneer selling a fine gold watch for five dollars, don’t let them catch you. Emigrants are systematically swindled by such tricks.
9. If, when you arrive in a strange town, you want information and advice, you can always get it by applying at the right place. First, apply at the office of the Immigration Society, if there is one. If you are a foreigner, you will probably find in the large cities a Consular office or a benevolent society of your countrymen, and you can apply there. Usually, there are attentive and polite men at the police office. Public officers generally in the United States are ready to assist and advise strangers.
10. Before starting from home, carefully read all the accessible books about the State or Territory to which you intend to go; and when you arrive, go to some place where you can find old friends, if you have any. If you are poor, commence work immediately, but do not be in a hurry to buy land, unless with the approval of men whom you can trust. Take a month or two to get information about the country. Advice about the purchase of land is often given with corrupt motives.
White Mountain Reservation.—The boundaries of the reservation to be as follows, as shown in red on the accompanying map: Starting at the point of intersection of the boundary between New Mexico and Arizona with the south edge of the Black Mesa, and following the southern edge of the Black Mesa to a point due north of Sombrero or Plumoso Butte; then due south to said Sombrero or Plumoso Butte; then in the direction of the Picache Colorado to the crest of the Apache Mountains, following said crest down the Salt River to Pinal Creek, and then up the Pinal Creek to the top of the Pinal Mountains; then following the crest of the Pinal range, “the Cordilleras de la Gila,” the “Almagra Mountains,” and other mountains bordering the north bank of the Gila River to the New Mexican boundary, near Steeple Rock; then following said boundary north to its intersection with the south edge of the Black Mesa, the starting point.
Southern Pacific Railroad.
Regular and Special Rates in U. S. Gold Coin for the “Loop Route.”
| Between SAN FRANCISCO and | Newhall. | San Buena-Ventura | Santa Barbara | Los Angeles | San Diego | Colton | Yuma |
| Distances | 438 M | 488 M | 518 M | 470 M | 606 M | 528 M | 720 M |
| [1] Unlimited First Class | $25.85 | $30.85 | $33.85 | $28.00 | $38.00 | $31.00 | $50.00 |
| [2] Unlimited First Class including Yosemite | 65.00 | ||||||
| [3] Limited First Class | 20.00 | 24.00 | 27.00 | 20.00 | 30.00 | 23.00 | 42.00 |
| [4] Limited Third Class | 10.00 | 15.00 | 18.00 | 10.00 | 20.00 | 13.00 | 32.00 |
[1] Allows stop-over privileges, at pleasure, upon notifying Conductors.
[2] Includes the Tourists’ Trip from Merced to Yosemite and Return.
[3] Limited to a continuous trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
[4] Limited to a continuous trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles, on Third Class Trains.
T. H. GOODMAN,
General Pass. & Ticket Agent.