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The Citizen.
DECEMHEH 18, 1SS0
SATURDAY
Our Weekly Mining Review.
The ItaBlncM t the Xew ork Mini..,
Stock Exchange, Still D rcnslnc
Lcndrlllc Securities Qnlet-The JIo-
.1... it.rlvliie Wttie
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CouistocJt.
Siwetal CorresponoeiHe of Tub Citizen.
Nkw York, December 4. Sales at
the minimr boards during the present
. . , .. .AMclflnmhlv loss thftn
week nave uccu j
the nvorage
..nniml n in nil to lillt
-oiuv b
U90 102 shares, and the market for the
,t imrt has been dull. The trans
amimis at the New York board show
a large falling off from the usuaL---r.rri-it
is verv probable, however,
that an equal amount of trading has
ien done by the outside public as has
of late takon place in the same length
ol time. The deaths of two prominent
mining men, Geo. B. Hobmson and
II. C. llidwell, had a depressing effect
rum time upon the stocks in which
thor had beon particularly interested
.mil in fact upon the whole market.
Green Mountain, Cherokee, Hising
Sun and Gold Stripe, of which Col
Hid well was President, were raided
as soon as his death became known,
hut have since then recovered and
c lose firm at about the opening prices.
The highness of the money market
has checked speculation io bumc ex
tent, yet a few of the stocks have been
active and mark an advance. v hue
the outside public arc still paying
more attention to outside properties
than to listed ones, there arc encourag
ing indications of a
speculation iu the near future. As
certain of the properitics which are
showing good developments arc from
time to time made attractive by fre
quent fluctuations they will invite
outride orders, and new blood will
thus be infused into the market
While no general boom is expected
lor mining stocks there is an almost
universal feeling that the coming sea
von will witness a largely increased
activitv and profitable advances in
this species of securities.
Leadville stocks have been very
iuiet during the present week and
the sales have been the lightest that
have been recorded in a long time.
Chrysolite has been ouiet, and for
the moet part weak, selling down
from $67 to $5, but recovered to
ward the close to -ul4. total saies
I r the week, 12.710 shares.
Ainie has been the most largely
dealt in of the Leadville stock, ll.i.iHX)
t-hares having been sold. Opening at
Vic the stock sold down to3iC, Inn
c losed firm at the opening figure.
Climax has been fairly active, and
also declined during the early part of
;he week irom ooc to 4c, but devel
ped strength on later dealings and
closed at 55c. bales aggregating UU,-
'00 shares.
Little Chief oitencri dull and week
:tt $1.05, and declined to $1 under
light sales, but became more active
and advanced to $1.20 on sales for the
week of 7200 shares
Little Pittsburg has been very dull,
only 450 shares selling at $2
and 52
Of the other Colorado stocks Htikill
was quiet and hrm, at from $1.G to
SI. SO until to-day, when 5050 shares
were sold, the price declining to $ 1 4
alee for the week 02iKi shares
Bull-Domingo has been steady,
opening at 4.70 and closing at $4
on sales of ll)o0 shares.
Iron Silver has been moderately
active, out declined m the early deal
ings from ?3ij to $2? under "reports
ol lurther uitucuities with neighbor
ing mines. The stock recovered,
JioVever, and closed at $3.40 on sales
of 6830 shares.
Itobinson Consolidated sold down
from . to fcois on small oilorings at
the beginning of the week, but be
snme stronger and closed at $10
Total sales.OO shares.
Bodie stocks have received little at
tention, with the exception of Boston
Consolidated, which has been very
.ictivc and advanced from $1.10 to
$1.70 on sales aggregating 30,500
shares. The reports Irom this mine
continue to be very encouraging and
there is everv indication that the
stock will soon sell at higher figures
Bulwer has been quiet but strong,
advancing from $1 50 to $1.70 on sales
of 2,85 shares.
Sales of only 300 shares of Bodie are
recorded, at $4.30, $4.So and $4 .CO.
Of other California properties the
Bidwcll stocks made a sharp decline
in the oarlv dealings. Green Moun
tain sold tlown Irom $4.80 to $4.10,
1ut as it is generally believed that this
properly, as well as each ot the other
lust referred to. possesses actual merit,
it soon received substantial support
ami advanced to $5. closing at $4.70.
Sales aggregate 2,i2j shares. Chero
kee was very active and declined from
$1.80 to $1.45, but closed at $1.70 on
ales of 10,000 shares. Rising Sun
records sales of 2,400 shares at $1.90,
$1.65 and $1.90, and Gold Stripe, also
J. 400 shares, at 2.75, $2.05 and
$2.75.
Horn Silver has received more
attention than for a time jmst, and
advanced from $12.73 to $14 on sales
of 1,750 chares.
Calaveras has been active and re
cords sales of 00,300 shares at 23c, 2Gc
and 24c.
Silver Kugget declined from 32c to
23c. and there is no good reason why
uie ueciiuc snouia not nave been
greater. Shares sold. 54.550.
A fair business has been done in the
Bonanza stocks, California recording
saies oi u,tnu shares, the stock open
ing at $1.60 and closin? at SI. 70
Con. Virginia advanced from $2.15 to
on s-nies ot 0.150 shares. Ol the
other Comstock properties Union Con
solidated has been the most active,
1.000 shares selliugat 11.25 to S11.75,
Mexican records sales of 700 sharos at
$7.12. $6.62ij and $7.50; Ophir
045 shares at from $5.50 to SC.87U:
Sierra Nevada 390 shares at $7.50 to
$7.75, and Best and Belcher 250 -linre?
at from $& to $.
The rllHburj-Cn-toiu Mill
The Tombstone Epitaph of a few
days ago contains the following:
This mill, located two miles from
t"wn,lias just completed a job of cus
tom work on ore from the Mamie
mine, 'lhe value of the bullion pro
duced was $2500. from ore averaging
$W per ton, which was worked up to
per cent, oi pulp assay, the bullion
ueing ot the average fineness. This
mstom mill is now doing excellent
uih. cnarging per ton for ore ol
average grade. The Mamie mine is
represented to be looking well, and
it is said that its forml-r owners are
about to work it on an extensive
scale."
The Citizen IS nleasetl tn nntp that
the organization of a lodge of Knights
oi xiuias is meeting with success,
and to the energetic efforts of Mr. J.
H. Harris, the Secretary much of the
interest cvincca i due
GOOD COMMON SENSE
j An Interview with Judge K. A. Trifle,
".resident ottlie Yellow .JncUet alin
ing Company, of Virginia CItjr
Something "Which Our Prospector
Should Head .
On Tuesday evening, before return-
turning to Tombstone, Judge F. A
Tr'tlc, one of the best-known of the
Comstock mining operators and Prea-
ident of the Yellow Jacket Mining
Company, was interviewed by a Cit
izen reporter with: a view to ascer
taining his opinion of Arizona, her
resources and future. In answer to
the first question, Mr. Tritlc said :
1 have visited so tar eleven min
ing districts in all in Southern Ari-
Unnn nnrl T nm most. frtvnraliK im.
: .
prcsscu im mcir auuvarBucu, ii is
:,. . .1 i
uiu iuusi inorouguiy iniucrauzcu
country I have ever seen. One great
advantage is the generally simple
character of the ores, chlorides the
most convenient form in which to find
silver abounding. l nave seen a
number of mines where there are verv
large quantities of ore, especially at
lombstone, but, outside of those large
deposits, 1 find an immense number
of small veins containing high-grade
ore which in time will furnish cm
ploymcnt for a very large population.
But I find here the same mistaken pol
icy prevalent that is certain to exist in
all new countries.
" What is that" asked the reporter.
" Well, what 1 mean is this: I
find numberless prospects where some
work has been done; a shnlt has been
sunK a lew feet on a very promising
vein, a nice little pile of rich ore has
been piled on the dump, and the own
er has asked a big price for his claim
and sat down to wait for somebody to
come along with money enough to
buy it. Mow, I do not wish to be un-
derstood as not wanting to sec the
prospector get for his claim all that it
is worth, but that is no way to do it
I believe irom what I have seen of
Southern Arizona that it is most em
phatically a ' poor man's country
The mineral is near the surface, and
mc torination is so sou mat the min
eral is easily gotten out. I believe
that the prospector will sooner get the
value of his claim by taking his ore
out and having it worked at the near
est mill. This will give him good
wages and capital to go ahead with
his prospect work, lake lombstone,
for instance, there arc several cus
torn mills there, much of the time
standing idle, ana yet there, is ore
enough lying around on small dumps
to keep those mills busy all the time.
Instead of working their claims them
selves many ol the owners want to
sell out at big figures, and to that end
they won't sell a pound of ore
from the dump, as they need it
all to "sell the mine." In many
instances prospectors have struck a
hungry' place in the vein, and are
afraid to go further. Then, again
the claims will be bonded for long or
short periods, through which the own
crs arc otten idle during the period.
only to nnd at tue expiration or the
time that they have realized nothing."
"What do you think will remedy
this?-'
Oh, as far as that is concerned, it
will right itself in time, After the
owners become satisfied thatthev can't
sell their claims at big figures by the
exhibition of a few tons ol ore on the
dump, they will go to work for them
selves, and the result will be large and
prosperous communities. Look at Eu
reka, Nevada. There were two great
dividend paying mines developed in
tliat camp, and tlie claim owners in
the vicinity acted precisely as they
do in many places in Arizona. It
righted itself there, as it will here, in
a year or two, and now there are many
smnll mines in the vicinity paying
their owners good returns and making
the town piosperous. lhe dimculty
in Arizona is that visitors are met with
efforts to sell on the part of owners at
prices that should be paid for mines.
instead of mere prospects. '
How about the numerous districts
where there are no custom reduction
works?"
' In districts where the prospects
will warrant it, the mills will come
just as soon as the claim-owners show
a disposition to dispose ol their ore
instead of keeping it for show pur
poses. Ihere will be plenty ol capital
when capital sees its way clear. In
another way do the prospectors un
wittingly wrong others and them
selves. In this manner. 1 have in
my mind a new district the name of
which I do not care to mention
where there is an abundance of ore,
rich enough to make the camp a great
one some day. me miners think
their ore is richer than it Is. They
take their averages, and they believe
it will mill at certain figures, when
the truth of the matter is it will not
mill more than half of those figures.
Now, suppose that a capitalist put
up a custom mill in that district and
proves what I say regarding the value
of the ore Why, he would be caileo
a thief, and his mill would be shut
down for want of rock to crush.'
" How does what you have seen of
Arizona compare with Nevada?" in-
nuircd the reporter.
Weil.' replied Mr. inue, " i nave
not seen a Comstock in Arizona yet,
but outside of that Arizona is much
the better country for a poor man. As
I said beforo, your ores are nearer the
surface in Ifact, they are too neai
and vou don't do deep enough pros
pecting. Why, the Yellow Jacket is
now down 3000 feet, where the water
and air are so hot as to make work
almost impossible, and yet wo go
right on prospecting. However, that
will come all right in time. But
your climate is superior and permits
work to proceed all the year round
louhave better grazing lands, and
vou are equally well supplied with
wood and water. Then, as I said be
fore, the formation here is so soft that
it is possible to conduct mining
with far less capital.
Why do not more Calitormans and
Nevadans comn to Arizona."
The fact of the matter is that com
paratively little is as yet known about
Arizona." said -Mr, intie. l am in
hones to sec two or three of the lestof
the Tombstone mines listed on uie
board at San Francisco and I think it
. . m i . t.i .1..
will be done yery soon. The people
will buy the shares readily enough,
and the disbursement of a few divi
dends in California would do more
than any other one causa to bring
California capital into tho Terri
tory. It is at the furthest only a ques
tion of time, for vou have the mineral
here, and capital will find it, soouer
or later."
In reply to a question as to his own
intentions, Mr. Tritle said that he hnd
already invested some in a copper
mine at Bisbec which camp he de
clared to have a splendid outlook
and he intended going back to Tomb
stone and before he left to visit Cali
fornia District and other localities.
'Now, Mr. Reporter, concluded
the Judge, " I hope you have not put
mc down as in any way assuming that
the finders of mines are getting or are
likely to get too much for their prop
erty. My view of the matter is mere
ly that, with the fine advantages which
I have tried to name, they can better
get at the worth of their property in
another way than the one now gen
eral. I believe that the life nnd hard
work of a prospectar are worth more
than mere wages. And I knotc, from
what 1 have seen of mining and mining
countries, that everything will comeout
right in the end. There is no bettor
country in the world for the prospec
tor or poor man than Arizona."
Affairs at the I'ront.
The track of the Southern Pacific
Railway is now laid to a point 24
miles beyond Deming, or 254 miles
from Tucson.
A large supply of rails for the Atch
ison road the want ol which has very
much delayed the progress.of the road
arrived on the loth, and rapid track-
laying is now in progress.
A gentleman named f ritz nns jusi
put in an opposition line of coachos
from the terminus of the Southern Pa
cific track to Mesilla which place is
now 30 miles from the end of the
road. The far is only $3, and it saves
nearly 40 miles of stage travel as
against the line from Deming. At
.Mesilla It connects with the National
Mail and Transportation Company s
stages for El Paso, or Aleman. The
stages run every other day, leaying
the terminus the even days of the
month and Mesilla on the odd days.
Investigation proves that there is
no danger of a conllict between the
graders ol the two roads, as Intimated
in the Star of last Sunday. The two
lines run for four miles before reach
ing Franklin side by side, but there
is ainplo room for both.
The tram from lucson arrives at
Dciniag at C p. m. of the same day.
The daily stages of the National Miil
and Transportation Company leave
a half an hour later; arrive at Fort
Cummings at 10 p. m. ; arrive at
Mesilla at 8 a. m. the next day; ar
rive at El Paso at S p. m.,or at Ale-
man at 10 p. m.
The through travel since the late
change lras been very much increased.
Eight through passengers from the
East arrived at Doming on the night
of the 13th. Tho trains leave Dem
ing for Tucson at 11 a. m.
"I'p Salt illvcr."
The Cincinnati Commercial gives
the following information to a corres
pondent who asks: "What is the
meaning of the term 'Salt River!''"
The answer to yot'r question opens
up a very interesting tut ot umo
River pioneer history. Prof. Steele
de Vere gives the origin of the phrase
in his book called 'Americanisms:
The English of the New World.' Be
fore the day of steam all navigation of
the Ohio River was carried on by flat
boats and keel-boats. It was neces
sary to row the keel-boats upstream.
The labor was painful and exhausting.
There were slaves all along the Ken
tucky side of the river in those days.
When a negro had been refractory or
sassy, it was the custom to punish
him by hiring him out to row keel
boats up the river. This punishment
was called ' rowing up.' In time it
became the popular slave term for
scolding or punishment of any sort,
ail over the country, much as the
term of! ' blowup " is applied nowa
days. Prof. De Verc quotes this sen
tence from the New York Herald of
May 7, ia)0: ' Wc hope the President
gave his secretary a good rowing up
tor his imbecility.'- ' Salt River ' was
and is a little tributary of the Ohio.
in iventucky. It was so crooked and
dangerous that rowing a keel boat up
its waters was about the hardest labor
a man could undertake, nence to
row a man up Salt river was as severe
punishment as could be imposed on
him. The expression became prov
erbial. One day, on the floor oi Con
gress, a member" from Kentucky made
use ot the phrase iu a happy allusion.
The expression was then crystalized
in the popular epeech of the couutry.
i rom that da to this tne person or
paity that has been badly defeated in
an elecliou is 'sent up Salt River.'"
Head and I)Igc-t.
In another column of this issue will
be found an intcrviow with Judge F.
A. Trltle, President of the Yellow
Jacket Mining Company, of Virginia
City. His views, therein expressed,
every sensible man will endorse.
Arizona needs sucii men to work out
her destinv. Their opinions are the
result of long observation, and not of
snap judgment. Mr. Tritles visit to
Arizona will be productive ot even
more good than his individual efforts
can accomplish. His opinion of the
mineral resouroes of Arizona will be
taken and acted upon where a huu
drcd newspaper articles would be un
noticed. There is food for reflection
in hi"? utterances, as printed in the
Crrrzus to-day, and his flattering ver
diet on Southern Arizona general),
should encourage our people to re
newed exertions. I tie Citizen par
ticularly endorses Mr. Tritle's views
in retcrcncc to the idle waiting for
purchasers of claims, aud believes that
upon a disposition being shown by
claim-owners to patronize 'he custom
mills now erected, others will le built
in localities where they are sadly
needed.
Dog and Cat limiting Together.
Brunswick (Me.) Telecmph.
A gentleman informs us that he was
in Iscw Hampshire Ins. summer, when
the following incident came under his
observation: The men were moving
in the field, and accompanying them
was a large Newfoundland dog, who
watched the operation and saw some
moles start in the grass; the dog
caught several, digging for them and
killing them. All at once the dog dis
appeared and was gone for some time.
Looking up the held in the direction
of the farm-house, our informant saw
the dog trotting down toward the men
and by his side was trotting the house
cat, the greatest cordiality always ex
isting between the two animals. The
dog brought the cat directly up to the
swath, and soon pussy understood
what was up. As soon as a mole was
started she caught and killed him, and
when one retreated to a hole the dog
scented and dug him out, the cat in
this case killing the mole, and so the
dog and cat hunted together for quite
a time, until they wearied of the sport.
c suppose wc shall be told that in
stinct governed the animals, and that
they had no language in which
thAi li nt ri lnnrnnra in n-hii-li t
communicate with each other.
Seriou Accident.
Mr. C. E. Harlow, one of the lead
ing merchants of Harshaw, a few days
since received a dispatch from his old
home in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, stilting
that his wife was not expected to live,
whereupon he immediately took his
departure for that place. No partic
ulars were given, but it has since been
learned that Mrs. Harlow was in the
Beckwith House at Oshkosh when it
took fire, and was obliged to leap from
a fourth-story window to the ground
Iu falling sle struck against a project
ing cornice, but was caught in a blan
ket waiting to receive her. At latest j
accounts it was thought -Mrs. Harlow
would survive the shock.
Great Scott! Con it be possible
that the recent damp weather has
changed the " funny " man of the Star
into the gush artist now deluging our
contemporary's editorial columns
with sentimental rot about tramps.
forsooth'
THE MOQCIS.
ACurious Kace or Indian- in the
Nortlientem Corner- or Arizona
The Snn-AVorshlpcr.s and Thelrl'e
euliar Cnstoms-A Happy nnil Con
tented Tribe.
1 Prefcott Democrat.
In the northeastern part of Arizona
Territory, there lives a race of Indians
who possess many peculiarities of in
torftit in thoe who consider that the
proper study of mankind is man
From Mr. C. E. Davis, who has been
out there in company with Joh
Reese, taking the census of the tribe
wi nre indebted for the following in
teresting particulars concerning these
Indians, their naims, cusiuma uuu
mode of life.
Tim "Monuis have no knowledge
how or when they became settled In
ihelr nrescnt aliodc. They claim to
be descendants of the Ancient Aztecs
hut whether or not they are oi tn
same race as the original inhabitants
of the cities ot Caboln, is a question
that offers wide field for investigation
There are seven villages in all si
inhabited by tho Moquis, and one by
the Oribas, who arc to all appearances
tho same people, only speaking a dif
ferent dialect. These villages are lo
cated on rocky, banen mesns.l the Or
iba village being about twenty mile!
west of the Moquis. The approach
to the villages is by a single zigzag
nath which winds aiound the tacc ot
tho chtl'. and barely permits a single
horseman to advance. The houses are
Imilnif nick, the dwellings rising in
the shape of terraces, are entered by
mean.- of ladders, which are drawn up
nverv ni"ht.
Fuel has to be packed to some of
tho villages on backs ot burros, over
six miles, while water is brought
from a mile to two miles distant. On
the sandv plain at the foot of these
mow, are raised tine crops of com
nnmnkins. melons and delicious
neaches. They own many horses,
sheen and goats, which are carefully
"narded every night in stone corrals
on the steep sides of the mesa, where
watchful sentinels keep a bright look
out all ills-lit long.
The Moquis stand in mortal dread
of their warlike neighbors, the Nav
ajos, who are distant from them some
twentv-five miles to the north, aud
whose ideas concerning the right-) o
property are considerably mixed.
The -Mwiul villiages are on two
mesas three on each. The different
villages are only a few huudred yards
apart" vet no two of them speak the
same dialect. The headchieflanship
is hereditary in one fam ily, but each
village has a sub-chief.
The Moquis worship the sun rud
many forms ot idols, they also have
a reverence for rattlesnakes, and once
a vear they indulge in what is known
as the snake-dance, in which they
twine these reptiles about the body
neck and arms, as they whirl through
the wild orgies of their dance, but
they have a sure autidole against the
poison .
The Moquis bachelors buy their
dusky mates from the parents, the
price of a wife being alHtut six po
nies, but it varies according to the
quality. They have a very simple
and effective mode of settling do
mestic dilliculties. When the wife
discovers " incompatibility of tem
perament," and finds that the husbaud
is not the man she thought he was,
she orders him to pick up his move
able eliects, nnd stand not on the or
der of his going but ''git" at once.
As a consequence of this simple di
vorce law the women are said to own
nearly all the real estate in the Mo
quis villages, for the house fulls to the
wife when the matrimonial tie is sev
ered.
lhe beaux ot the tribe going on a
courting expedition dress iu a gor
geous manner in velvet knee-breeches
ornamented with silver buttons, their
briddle and saddle being also profuse
ly ornamented with the same metal.
1 here is a difference iu dressing the
hair between the matrons and mai
dens. The latter wear It in sharp
pulls projecting over the ears, which
is an intimation to the anxious lieau
that " Barkis is willin'." After mar
riage the hair is worn long on the
shoulders nnd " banged " in the latest
style in fiont. The women do nearly
an me woru in the village, repair
the houses, grind the corn by mattats,
etc.
The tribe is prosperous, peaceful
and industrious. The agent lives
about eight miles from the village,
and lurmshes them their annuities
every year. A -Mr. Keani has a store
at the Agency and does a large trade
with the tribe, buying their wool,
corn and other products. He lately
snijipeu lau.ow pounds oi wool. The
Government is alKMit to start a board
ing school at the Agency, which will
no doubt be well attended and lie of
great good to the tribe.
iaken altogether, these native Ari-
zonaus are a happy and contented
race. iheir cares are light, their
wants are few ami easily supplied.
They are isolated Irom the busy world
its struggles and its excitements, and
pass their day in peaceful, patri
archal simplicity, as did their ancest
ors tor centuries before them.
I'er-onnl.
Congressman Tucker has recovered
his eyesight almost entirely and Ill
health ha been restored.
Mr. Chester A. Arthur, the Vice-President-elect,
will spend most ot
the winter in Washington.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor has sent a
lont, with a hasui of solid silver, to a
mission chapel she has established in
Nebraska.
Governor McClellan has just been
presented with a flint-lock pistol car
ried by General Scott during all his
campaign in the Mexican array.
Oscar de Lafayette, a graudson ot
the Marquis de Lafayette, has written
to the Cowpens Centennial Associa
tion that his parliamentary duties will
not permit him to be nrescnt t tl.
celebration on the 17th of next Janu
ary. He is a member of the French
Senate.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Hoi mes hii
written to the school children of Cin
cinnati that he feels ashamed of the
verses of his youth his
but adds: " " If ny of you, how
ever, can laugh over anv ot mv earlv
verses, unbutton your small jackets
and indulge in that nleasin-
sion to your heart's content."
Mr. Robert Barton, one. nf il tj
ciflc Coast millionaires, has picked
up bed and baggage and left San Krun.
cisco in disgust. He announces that
ne is going to oispose of everv dollar's
worth of property owned by him in
Ca.ifornia and ' take the inonev to
some place where rich men are "not
made the target for Sand-lot dema
gogues and legislative robbers."' He
proposes to take up his residence in
ew York.
The SmmI Msruh Jah of Calcutta
Uot Upij "xi Ml the gnua.
He wa found by a laefeey,
Who boated " Oh enckey '"
And toted him homt on a ehutt-
.American Qa;s
CT.Il'F TOtr
The fllcovcry in Sew Mexico
Canyon Full of Cave.
of
Vashln2ton Star.
James Stephenson, of the United
Stat-s Geological Survey, District ol
New Mexico, arrived hero last night
iijinuin-r news of an important dis
covery he has made recently in the
course of his labors. While jear
Santa Fc, New Mexico, recently, he
was informed by Indians that there
wcie within a few miles some ancient
enves that he would find interesting
Guided by them, he found, forty riilcs
from Santa Fc, ten miles from the Rio
f-mnile. a clifl' town composed of
mves in the rockv side of a canyon
thirty miles long, never before visited
hv !i white man. He was so much
imnressed with the greatness ol his
discovery. that for ft moment he was
scarcely auie IO spuaa. n ueu uc uiu
it was in terms of wonder and ndmir
r.tion. This town, or succession
of
excavations in the solid rock for thirty
miles, is one of the largest, if not the
inr'-est. ever disconered. The houses
arc dugout of the rock-side to a depth
nf from fifteen to twenty Icet. Ap
tlv. thev were excavated with
Kinne implements. They nre almos
ible from the plains. Mr,
Stenhensou. however, managed
to
clamber uu the rocky prccipicu and
entered and examined several of the
houses. He found in them a number
of articles that he thought remains of
their first possessors, lie will prob
nnlr nrenare ft report upon tho cliff
town, as he calls it. A scientist who
has traveled in that region and visited
other caves and excavations of a simi
lnr kind, savs ho isdisposed to believe
that thev have been tenanted within
modern times by Indians at war with
each other seeking satety and auvan-
taffc over their enemies. He thinks
tho remains found there are the rem
nnuts of the things these belligerents
have used, eaten or worn, and not the
relics of the first owners of the rock
houses.
The Wouion of Montenegro.
The Montenegro women take an
equal share of labor with the man at
field-work, and she does an uie car
rving. In travel here one engages a
horse to ride and a woman for the
baggage. Only those who have neith
er wife, mother, daughter, or depend
ent female relation, shoulder such
burdens as a common thing. Trans
port by animals also, is a department
of female occupation". Coming from
Cetttnje here, one meets pack-horses,
mules, donkeys, going up in droves,
with a gang of women following. Tre
mendous weights they carry slung by
straps that cross tho upper chest, and
as they go they knit or spin, ihese
dwellers by the frontier arc much bet
ter looking than the unmixed race of
the interior, but not less hardy, strong
and independent. They have no
shame or hesitation in begging, and
universal mendicancy on the part
of the women and girls must, .
imagine, have its influence on raor
ality. In leaving Montenegro the
traveler carries with him a deep re
gard and admiration for the gallantry,
the manliness and the shrewd intern
geuce of this strange people, lie is
constrained to wish them well and to
hope that they will acquire means to
live at peace hereafter.
An liiRle'- I'et.
A pleasant storv is told of the fa
mous war eagle, " Old Abe, who is
now reposing upon his laurels at Mad
ison, Wisconsin. His daily allow
ance is a live chicken or some other
kind of meat. The juvenile fowl is at
once slaughtered bv the king of birds.
and eaten at his plcisuro during the
day. une day a white chicken was
put into his cage and in its fright
crouched in one corner. " Old Abe'
went up and locked at the little crea-
tuic, but did not harm it. On the
contrary, he caressed it, and all day
long went without his customary re
past, until at night, as ho would not
devour the chicken, other food was
provided. In short, " Old Abe's
heart was won by the chicken, and it
became his pet. He saw that it went
to roost at the proper time, aud if the
weather was cold spread the warm
shelter of his big wing over it. Other
white chickens have been thrown to
him, and he never before or since
failed to make a meal of them. Some
thing about this particular fowl
touched him In a tender spot, and the
theory of the survival of the fittest
had a fresh illustration which does
credit to the big heart of " Old Abe
I'U'ectJof -"right on Hair.
The Gazette de Hospiteaux gave an
account latelely of a singular case of
complete alopecia. A girl, aged 17,
who had always enjoved good health,
had one day a narrow escape from
hol-g crushed by a floor giving way
beneath her. She was very much
frightened, and the same night began
to complain or headache and chills.
lhe next morning she felt restless,
and had an idling ot the scalp. Dur
ing the lew tollowmg days she steadily
improved, with the exception of the
itching. One day. in combing her
hair, she noticed that it came out in
large quantities: three davs latter she
was pertectly bald. Her general
neaiin was good, but her head con
tinued bald, aud was still so when seen
two years later bv the reporter.
Ciirloiu I'act- about AVrltlnp;.
A rapid penman can write thirtv
worus a minute, lo do this he must
draw Ins pen throucrh the snace of a
rou, sixteen and a halt feet. In forty
. . . . .
minutes his pen travels a furlong. Wc
make on an average sixteen curves or
turns of the pen in writing each word.
Writing thirty words in a minute wc
must make ISO to each minute; iu an
hour 28.000: in a dav of onlv five
lours, 144,000; in a vonr of 300 davs.
-i.,-vAj,uuu. ine man who made 1,
ouu.uuo strokes with his nen was not
at all remarkable. Many men news
paper writers for instance make 4.-
000,000. Here we have in the aggrc-
ato a mark 300 miles long to be traced
on paper by such a writer in a year.
A New Mexican Slory.
i.I.ai Ves Gazette.
In an accident on Raton Hill. Colo
rado side, last nicht. seven cars were
totally wrecked and two men narrowly
escaped death. The train was under
chaige of Tom Wampler, and while
making a switch seven cars got a start
and soon gamed such a momentum
that they jumped the rails on a sharp
bend and went into the ditch. The
last car in the lot iumned over the
front ones, regaining the rails, ran hall
a mile, and as it was alwut overtaking
the first section, jumped the track a
second tinv, landing in a gully. That
settled it. J
The familiarity with tramps and
their habits displayed by the -Star
5UoGesls the awfully awful conjecture
that the entire editorial staff of that
great metropolitan journal has at
some time or divers times walked out
of towns leaving his board-bills and
whiskey-bills a tender and ton chin ir
j memories for his creditors to lav un
wun me oig club which awaits
i return
his i
Mlnlnc" Journal.
Pre-cott Democ.-at. 1 .
The interest felt by the people in
the East in mining matters during the
past two years has brought into exis
tence a goodly number of so-called
mining journals. They have sprung
up mushroom-like in the leading
cities, and their ostensible mission is
to enlighten people on mining affairs
and give them advice on the dangers
and dubious wilts of "wild-cat"
speculators. The Democrat has had
occasion to refer to this class of min
ing literature before, and it may not
be out of placo to notice it again.
While there arc a few reliable journals
devoted to the mining interest, pub
lished in the East, the most of them
are merely advertising sheets started
in the interest of speculators who love
to have " feet" to dispose of. Prob
ably not one in ten of the men who
are connected with theso "journals
know as much about a mine as an
Anache Indian does of the Seventh
Commandment. The value of the
mining information which they can
set before their "readers can therefore
. . ?
be easily estimated, as snowing me
sort of stuff that appears in thes
" mining" organs, we select the fol
lowing:
" Wo have lound it next to an im
possibility for a stranger visiting i
mining camp in Utah, Colorado or th
West to get any reliable information
The shark, the mining sharp, the vil
lain, is the first to form his acquatn
tancc, and leach-like sink rhino, in
troducing him around, and as birds
of a feather Hock together, in all
countries, the good people, judging
the stranger or new comer by the bird
ce associates with, whom they know
to be a foul fowl. they, the solid peo
ple will say nothing calculated to put
the stranger on his guard, fearing the
result would be about as it is down
South, where 'bulldozing is more
practiced than it is in the mining sec
lions." .
What can be thought of the knowl
edge of mines and mining commun
itica possessed by a journal that will
publish such stuff as this? Wc ven
turc to say that there arc more mining
sharks hanging around the offices of
these one-horae " mining journals
in the East than can be found in all
the camps in the West, and tho great
est risk the honest investor runs is In
being fleeced by these unprincipled
puplications, many of whom exist by
" blackmailing " properties of merit
at the expense ot their worthless wild
cats.
Let the honest investor steer clear
of these mining bucket-shops, aud if
he desires to purchase, let him come
out himself or send a reliable f gent
o guarantee that he will receive
good treatment, and run far less
danger of falling into the hands of
"sharks'' and "villains" than he
would in the sccuy sanctum ot some
of those Eastern "mining" sheets; and
he will learn more about mines and
mining than one-half the conductors
ot those papers will ever know.
He can deal directly with the own
ers of mining properties, and will not
have to pay toll lo the impecunious
operators who hang around the c-lllces
of these chickadee mining journals
back East.
Residents of the mining regions are
ways glad to see reliable informa
on relating to their mineral resources
et before the Eastern people, but
when such balderdash as we have
Quoted is put forward as facts, it is
time to call the attention of the out
side world to the utter falsity of such
statements, and to the unreliability of
these travesties on mini rig journals
who publish them.
The mining claims alone the
Charleston road are now rapidly com
ing into prominence since the Junetta,
.Mamie aud other mines in that local
ity have been developing so supris-
mglv. It is generally conceded mai
the old belt from the Tough Nut to
the Old Bronkow can be traced, being
about a mile in width, and in each
instance where there has been any
considerable development good payin
ore has been discovered. It looks as
though the bonanzas of the camp will
yet be found m that locality. Nu
get.
A Jfcw Species of Development.
The Virginia City Enterprrse says
the following of an ex-Comstocker:
"Jim Orndorll has bought out a
game in Tombstone, Arizona, and set
tled there permanently. While some
of our Comstockers go forth to devel
op the resources of the country, others
develop the resources ol the people
One operation brings the gold and
silver un out of tho bowels of the
earth, and the other puts it in circu
lation."
Hion crimes and misdemeanors:
" Is it wicked to take dis heah wood!"
asked Frank Grico of Cash Brenne-
mnn, as the former hoisted a large
stick of wood over the fence to the lat
ter. "My 'pinion is," said Cash, as
he shouldered the stick, "my legal
'pinions is, when pc present price ob
wood in Oslveston am taken into con
sideration, dat we are committin' de
berry highest crime known to dc law
Uan ober annuder log. Ibalveston
News.
Mr. Taylor's Marriage at Tomlntonc,
On December 14, at 5 p. m., at the
residence of the bride, Mr. Taylor, of
the hrm of laylor te Amory, was mar.
ried to Mrs. Fallon. The wedding
was very quiet, only the most inti
mate friends of the couple being
present. Mr. and Mrs. laylor lef
immediately after the wedding in a
four.in-hand private carriage for Ben
son, where they took tne train ior san
Francisco and the East.
TnEUE are mean men in this world.
An Indiana man stopped his paper,
and said in the presence of a crowd
that he'd never read tho sheet again
or circulate it, and the fiendish editor
went the next day and printed an ar
ticle speaking very highly of that man
as a prominent citizen; nnd of course
the man couldn't go back on his word
and read the article, and he nearly
went wild.
A "Way to Enrich Garfield.
(Boston Transcript.
The St. Louts Globe-Democrat sends
all communications urging General
Garfield to place certain persons in
his Cabinet straight to Mentor. Let
all the newspapers do the same and
let General Garfield sell the letters by
the pound and put the money at in
terest, and when he retires from office
he will be a rich man.
Tns Maine Mininj Journal, a verv
excellent journal, by the way, jub
Hshcs the advertisements of no less
than forty mining corporations in that
State.
A Georgia man named his mule
Lotta, and the next day it kicked a
wagon in seventeen d'iflerent direc
at once. Boston Post.
They sav Chicaco e-irla never find
it hard to elooe Thev msl-B rone.
ladders out of their shoe-strings
St. Louii paper-
Splitting Wood.
'MarjaTilIj Appeal.
Yesterday as a commercial traveler
stood in front of the Western Hotel
shivering with cold and mentally
cursing the fog, he noticed two boys
busy sawing and splitting wood. Their
coats were" off and. their faces aglow
with the warmth of active youn
blood. The more he watched ibr
steady blows of the one with the axe,
the manner in which the axe and tho
resisting stick were swung high up
and then lowered on a log so forcibly
as to open the knotty piece, the more
he admired It all. At last he conclud
ed to try a little of it himself; so,
waiting till there were none of his ac
quaintances near, he approached the
woodpile. The boy had dropped the
axe a minute after inserting it in a
tough knot a regular pioneer. Cau
tiously the commercial traveler at
tempted to pry open the knot, the
hnadlc scrving'ns a lever. The mass
next lifted a foot or two several times
without the desired result being ac
complished. Then he paused, pushed
his hat well down on the back of his
head, spit upon his hands, and pre
pared to make a grand stroke. The
axe-handle was seized, up went the
axe and the wood, and down they
came; but alas, they had parted com
pany. The axe cut open lhe box-toed
boot, the end of the handle struck
him on the cap of the knee, and glanc
ing upward, gave htm a dig under the
vest. lhe knot was doing Us share,
too, for it descended upon the back of
his head as he stooped, plowed its way
round to the front through his scalp
lock, skinned his nose, took off half of
tho protruding lower lip, and dropped
innocently upon the prostrate axe.
Tha commercial traveler gathered
himsell up, looked like he had been
struck by zigzag lightning, knocked
down by hydraulic power, taken
through a threshing machine, and
run over by n truck. After a glance
of inquiry and astonishment at the
boys near by, and one of dismay at
the group watching him from across
the street, he hobbled away to his
room and ordered a dozen bottles of
liniment. He will go back to the
Bay for a week or two.
Mexico's New Administration.
Advices from the city of Mexico
under date of the 4th inst. gives the
names of the new cabinet otlicers as
follows: Foreign Affairs, Senor Mar
iscal ; Treasury, F. Landers it Co. :
Public Works, General Porfirio Diaz;
Justice, L. Montez; Var, General G.
Trcvino; Interior, Carlos D. Gutierrez.
It will be seen that?(eneral Diaz
takes charge of Public Works, which,
when we call to mind the great inter
est he has taken in internal improve
ments, would indicate an era of ad
vancement in our sister Republic.
Diaz obtained the chief oflice of .Mex
ico by force, yet all must admit that
he has made an able Chief Executive.
He has left the finances of Mexico In
better shapn than they have been for
years, and this appointment to the
portfolio of Public Works, backed up
as it should be by the people, insures
an era of prosperity for Mexico she
has little dreamed of. Railroads will
be extended south from the United
States connecting with the capital of
Mexico, furnishing a market tor all
of their tropical fruits, and enable her
to buy all the necessaries of life, of a
better quality and at a lower price
than she has been used to paying.
We congratulate our sister nation on
her cheertul outlook, and trust that
the bonds of friendship between the
two Republics may be strengthened.
and that an interchange ot commerce
mav prove as we believe it will the
salvation of Mexico.
Our Town.
Strangers coming to Tucson are in
the habit of falling into a very serious
error in their estimates of the re
sources of Tucson. They look around
before investigating and nrrive at the
conclusion that the mines, together
with the Sonora trade, is all we have
to support our town. Barren as the
country looks to strangers, there is
wheat enough raised in the vicinity or
in the reach of Tucson to keep three
flouring-mills employed the vear
around grinding flour and feed. We
have also innumerable stock ranches,
where more horses, mules and horned
eattlc are raised than can be used or
consumed by the needs of Arizona,
and the day Is not far distant when
large numbers will be shipped to Cali
fornia to supply that market with
beef and draught animals. It is only
necessary to examine our country to
be convinced of its permanency as a
tit place for homes for many thousands
of people. Tucson will continue to
occupy the chief place among Arizona
towns, and it we but do our duty we
shall see a town spring up here second
to no town on the Pacific always ex
cepting San Francisco.
One Place
Where Ueruhardt
Visit.
Can't
Atlanta Constl'uttoti.
Old Ike" Look heah, ole 'oman, if
dat ar' Saray Barnyard do come heah,
I gib you to onderstan' right now, dis
minute.dat I don't want you to be
a-runnin arter anv 'oman dat ain't
well acquainted wid de daddies ob her
chil'ren. Don't vou do it; lcab dat fo
de s'iety white lolks ter run arter her.
I'se poor, but my blood's rich, an I
can't 'ford ter loosen up my re-cord as
de vartoos an"spectable husban of a
nice old lady an de foster-fader ol ft
dam bad offun boy. I'se er tryin' ter
steer clear ob de gallus. No, Hannah,
no possum-an -tayter lay-out To bary
Ann m dis house pass dat ar 'lasses,
Jim, an, don't fill your mout so full
Hanner, anudder bowl o sassafrac, of
you please." And the family went on
devouring their evening meal in peace
and quiet until Jim poured a cup of
hot coffee upon the cat under the
table : then there was war.
Honor the Scl--ors.
Salem (Oregon) Daily.
Some people, ignorant of what good
editing is, imagine the getting up of
selected matter to be the easiest work
in the world to do, whereas it Ia the
nicest work that is done on a paper.
If they find an editor with scissors in
hand they are sure, to say, ' ' That's
the way yon get ud your original mat
ter, on? accompanying their new,
and witty question with a wink on
smile. The facts are that the interest, 1
the morality, the variety and useful
ness or a paper, depend in no small.
degree upon its selected matter; and
the editor knows that one mind cann t
make so good ft paper as five or six.
and Hint upon judicious selection de
pends his ability to please equally is
much as upon carefully prepared edi
torials and locals.
Old Ac'iunlntance.
Miss. Markham, who sang here on !
Pinafore last winter, is now perform- I
ing m New lork. Some of the mem
bers of that Pinarore troupe were still
at Prescott very recently.
r rank Koralwck, who made such a
long stay with us last winter and
spring, is now at the Bella Union
in San i rancisco.
The value of silks exports from Ly
ons to America in November was only
two millions of francs, nearly a mill-
Ion of francs less than in October, and
two millions Icsa than in September.
BifEKsassaa
o More Whiskey toheMade in Km..
The electors of Kansas I,i-t v,. .
cided by their vote, in the sh.i;,.
amendment to the constitutioa :
State, to forever prohibit the m ,
lure of intoxicating liquor-. . ' .
for medical, mechanical or Sl t.
purposes." The advocate i
measure have done what t;( ,
sider the best thing they could ,
that young and growing corn, i
wealth; they seek to lay theu.v r
loot of si great evil, "and w,ir;
master stroke destroy the t-. i- . .
produces "the forbidden fruit.
li
uuucsuui seeui io nave ocruri(
them that in the neighboring m t,
Missouri, Illinois and lo!.. . i
a great abundance of con: ami -,
of stills, where a bountiful -i.
the choicest liquors are in:tl
.....,. l.M.. .1
1,
niic m uiiiujieti me manul.ich'
liquor in their own State, hut ,:
attempt to curtail its importati,i,
other States. They Im ve de-tr, ,.
important industry ia KanV
have proportionately augiim.t.
piuuuciiiui in wtner tsttrn S'
it iooks very mucn as though K i
had "cut off her nose tn,. ,
lace." There will be just Ul '
liquor drunk in Kansas, now tlntV
no longer manufactured in x,. stv
as there was before; but it wt ,
mem more, for they will have
port it from other States. It n.
nu
not whether a man buys hi- !i , ,r t
a saloon by the drink or for w, ,
cinal purposes'' from a drug stor .
costs about as ranch at one as at tb,
other; but when he is compeU. ,J
buy at a drugstore bv the pint or -n"
Ion he is very apt to drink more annu
ally than when he is allowed to buy if
at a saloon by the drink, ami the effect
is just about the same, provided th.
druggist keeps as good whiskey .i- tiie
saloon-keeper which too often i- no'
the case.
ArInH Itoeonl.
The New York Mining Record of
December 4 observes: - Arizona
has the best record of any State or
Territory for the amount of money in
vested, and is acknowledged among
mining men as the coming countn
and that the richest silver mines "in
the world are found iu that Territory,
ami in the same , range of mountain
as the many famous silver mines
worked in Mexico for the last three or
four hundred year-. Many say it is
hazardous. It is no more than- hun
dreds of other kinds ot legitimate bus
inesses, and one great proof of it U in
seeing our bankers and foremost men
of the couutry engaged in it. C.ili-
forniacan bost of the richest --old
mines in the world, ami Nevada h-
had the largest silver mine- Tnk.-
for instance the Bodie mine, that was
selling for one dollar a share: a ri h
strike was made and in two month
they paid eleven dollars in dividend-.
and the stock went to fifty-odd dollars
snare; the Standard mine, which
has never been assessed, but naid it-
dividends, from fifty to seyenty-flve
thousand a month. forvears. with dni
uewis in signi ior me next ave year
to come. The Contention mine, in
Tombstone District, Arizona, was
bought two years ago tor ten thousand
dollars, or ten cents a share. It i-
now paying seventy-five thousand
dollars a month in dividends, with
eight or ten millions in sight, and tin
stock worth about seventy -five dollars
a share. The Head Center and Grand
Central mines, adjoining the Conten
tion, show equally favorable, but their
mills are no yet ready to coiiiinpnc
crushtag the ore."
The Why and Wherefore
is marvelous enterprise whi h
It
makes the Star the great newspaper
it is, and which throws in the shade
the efforts of its puny contemporaries,
the New York Herald, chhai-o
Times, and other ridiculous imitation
The Star daily paralyzes its vast com
course of readers with some new anl
startling information, and ever keep
its pace and place at the van of mod
crn journalism. For instance, after
having laid the tramp question stoiie
cold with the exudations of its colo
sal aggregation of brain, it on Fnd.t
by a stupendous outlav of monc
and general concentration of its facul
ties all along the line, lays before it
renders a table of distances from the
end of the Southern Pacific track t
various points of interest. To be sure
the same figures and information ap
pearcd in the Citizen of last Tuesday ,
but it was not prefaced with the re
mark that " the following official no
tificatiou of the stage routes was rc
ceived yesterday." The Citizkn i
not great, but it i magnanimous, and
the height of its ambition the far
distant, glimmering star of hope
might in the future be to attain a
faint rivalry of the Star as a " new- "
paper.
Eye-Openers.
Messrs. Gilmore awl Salisbury, the
well-known mining ami stage men,
ye-terday visited the Contention and
Grand Central mines, which opened
their eyes considerably, sail brought
from them the acknowledgment that
the ore-bodies were not to be excelled
in the country. Coming from such
disinterested authority, these proper
ties may be said to have received
compliment which they richly de
serve. Epitaph.
A St. Louis journal speaks of .i
man who got into a row and w-
freckled with buckshot."
riiED.
ilcKEY In thbi c tty, neer 13, At- .
dr McKer, a native of Kentocfcv, iij-!
year.
TUSKKK-Ia this HIT, December H. V
at, infant con of '. J. Tukr,
month.
The funeral will take plr it )! .
morrow, from the r.-iid'-iivt.- 'f w y
Esq. FrionJ--and a. .nuiitjn - nr
fully lc-it-d f j a-t. c
ifOSTETTE
J r CELEBRATED
TnERR IS -fj riviLIZED XA
the Western Hemupuerv :.
otility of Ii-'ttter" stomacL F- '
tonic, corrective nnd antl-bilioa' ip
aot knows and appreciated. WM
medicine for all .' and all i--n-espocially
united to the complaint-' .
by ths weather, belnj the porei at '
etable stimulant in the world
For gale bv ail Druij-rl-ta atiJ D
wbosj apply for Hoitett Ai-aar-a.
ft STO'UCH