Arizona citizen., 1874-01-17

more could be accomplished with our i'm they did not wait to know whether troops
 would or would not be sent here but
 went to honest, earnest labor in which strange conduct to Haines, many lost their lives and more their property; in the many years of murder and theft by Haines' formulation (Apaches) of pros perity," few of these hardy and producing settlers went to Los Angeles or elsewhere to make homes, and one of them was Col. Georgy Stoneman, but mostly remained hoping and begging for peace and even for the complete destruction of the only " foundation of prosperity" the man Haines seems to have observed they opened farms, built fences, dwellings, business houses, irrigating canals, quartz, grist and saw-milIs, arrastrars, towns, roads, school houses; run shafts and tun- nels into mountains and discovered valuable mines and as in all mining dis tricts in the world, money was made and lost; but faith still exists in the mineral wealth aud worth Of Arizona, and to-day there is more actual work being put upon mines than for years past, and that too by the older settlers and not by men of money misled hither by local falsehood.
 Twenty years ago, the vast, treeless but rich OrairiaS of Illinois vvara 5ao,,od b,- many impossible of human habitation, and had Haines been sent there at that time to examine and report upon their value, he would probably have pronounce ed them worthless had he been sent to Nevada prior to the advantageous dis coVery of the Comstock's richness by men of labor and serse, on a like errand, he would unquestionably have been more than usually quaint and inimitable in his report of its unparalleled barrenness of all worth, notwithstanding that State in 1875 produced over S35, 100000 gold and silver-more in value than all Cali tornia's product of gold, wheat, wine aud wool; and had he been commissioned to originally pass upon the possibility of growing juicy vineyards, fragrant orange and lemon groves, and a city upon the present site of the adored Los Angeles, he would .have, judged by his say upon Arizona, made dolefully adverse report, and very likely have condemned the wis dom which induced his selection for a work so far above his capacity. Had he landed in the primeval forests of Ohio and Indiana, instead of taking the right steps to make populous and wealthy States, he would have probably in 8 "quaint, inimitable way" very properly let the deer and other mild type of beasts eat him up. Haines seems to be familiar with a "mess of dirty beans," as we pre- sume any man might be whose caliber in- duees him 10 hunt for therN and regard hIs success @ good item for an apparently
 brainless newspaper man like the fellow of The Mirror; but now he came to have any experimental knowledge of the price of shaving Christian" passeth all com prehension. As to the dirty beans" be seems to have paid dollar mess for, we have this theory: In nearly all hotels and hash-houses, the prOprietors as we'll as the sculliOns take a mental measure of their guests, as well to impose upon such as will evidently bear imposition, as to feed them the kind of food they seem to have been accustomed to enjoy; and evil dently Joe Neugass and others honestly thought dirty beans" just adapted to Haines' appreciation. The very fact that Haines seems to have paid a dollar a mess for them without any protest at the time, appears to corrOborate the just judgment of him by our caravansary keepers and their scullions. Some heart less wretch must have wanted to have
 "some tun init Haines," and told him how our hash dealers played him out of dol lar mess for dirty beans-for the dollar seems to have disagreed with him more than the aforesaid dirty beans, showing that the food was about the thing but the price little out of the way.
 When a doctor finds "quaint, inimit- able" case, he usually regards it due to the profession to make diagnosis there of, and so it seems that we should treat Haine8. The charitable and probably ac-