The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-09-13
Perkins---McDonald.

which our section is represented abroad by some of the capitalists CD who manage by hook and crook to pay us visit MT. Charles { l.. Perkins, ex-State printer of Nevada, has written letter from here to the Virginia Chronicle, from which we quote: "The road from Los Angeles to IIardyvile, on the Col 'orado river, 330 miles, is the most internal 'one ever travelled, iour-fifths of it being sand nearly axle deep Teamsters make nothing by freighting at present rates, ten cents per pound" The road is hard one and expensive to travel over, but it has no sand nearly axle deep, and your cores pendent is prepared to guarantee freight to any amount Mir. P. might desire for eight cents per pound, whether the teamsters can make anything or not.
 Mir. Perkins and his companion, Mir. McDon'
 aid, went to Cedar Valley, and Mr. F., in his
 letter, says of that section: "We thoroughly |
 explored the district, but could find nothing
 that was satisfactory to us, either to locate
 'or purchase" During two weeks spent by
 these gentlemen in Cedar they laid around
 the Hibernia mine and "thor6ughly explored"
 the supply of provisions of Mir. Jacob Buell.,
 and assert knowingly, that they did not
 visit the mines of that district. They sponged
 off of Mr. Buell. the entire time and while
 stopping at Beale Springs, both going to and
 returning from Cedar, they were almost
 beastly drunk.
 Speaking of Walapai, NIT. P. says: 1.-The
 'yeins are in granite along the edges of vol
 'canc beds" We would like him to point out some of the volcanic beds in this region.
 Mir. Perkins observations while in this dis , trict were taken almost entirely in and around the saloon of MT. Mix, and he may
 have thought at times that be was in a vol canic country, but his teachings arc at fault,
 else he would not have placed our granite
 alongside of lava.
 Again. "A man with little money can
 get any kind of a lay out on the best mines
 'here, but propose to move with extreme
 caution" Now it is true that decent man
 with little money can find good opportuni-
 ties here but that 'extreme caution" sounds
 ridiculous coming from a man who hadn't
 money to buy his grub, pay for whisky or
 anything else, as we will more fully explain
 presently.
 |. But here is the handsomest compliment
 VIC have ever had "The miners here are ]. the lazest set of rascals ever met, but they 2. 'can stand of the devil in lying" This is a- refreshing, coming from man who was too E. lazy when sober, and frequently too drunk, e to walk the length of our little town. It i, 6 doubly refreshing when we remember tha, {, Mir. Perkins and his friend Mcdonald came ' among us men of capital, to invest iI 'L something that suited them" They could
 not pay a stable bill of q few days; some one r. lent them the funds and took their horse: IT from the stable and turned them out. They o remained here about six weeks, and in every d thing they proved themselves to be worthless r. men.
 e. Mcdonald claimed to be the best mill mar e. that ever came among us. He was giyer 1t charge of the Pioneer mill, and attempted tC K work five tons of Lone Star ore. Mir Per ms kins in his letter says the ore is worth sl0t H. per ton. Will he explain how it was that th' re working of five tons by bis friend McDonalC IS cost $350 more than the ore yielded. Lon, es Star ore has yielded in San Francisco S25t 'd over and above all expenses per ton, and i to was thought the five tons worked by Nc II Donald were as good as any ever taken iron
 the mine. MT. McDonald's effort cost tn ne owners S350 more than he saved from the ore be Before leaving here those cautious capi on talists" made another sDail biii at the stable ,n they had also made bill of more than $l0 IT, at the restaurant and large bill at one C ve the saloons. They had never inspired an on confidence, and at the last, when they wer
 preparing to leave, their movements ocean nt, so suspicious that the stable keeper locke DIV his door and through friends of the restar ri- rant keeper Gan innocent Chinamsn) the r's were informed that both stable and restau of rant bills must be paid before the rcdoler ay bloom of their countenances departed froi is our gaze. They had already pledged the he team for S250, and when thus brought to a K understanding of what was expected frol ey them, the payment of these two bills WI DTS secured, the Chinaman knocking of abou 'ef, twenty five per cent of his demand ses Everybody felt an agreeable satisfactio ip- as the two capitalists (God save the mark Of disappeared down the canon.
 'rn How their saloon bill was settled, al
 not prepared to say, but suppose it was ac on complished by leaving shotgun and COT "u siderable balance behind them.
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