Arizona citizen., 1874-01-17
FOLLY AND HES EXPOSED.
One R. R. Haines and His $ Quaint, Enimitable Way" as Well as a Little of Our Way.

We find the following floating round in our exchanges, and credited to The Los Angeles Weekly Mirror:
 Our old friend, R. R. Haines, Esq, who has just returned from Arizona, where he has been experimenting the construction of the military telegraph, illustrates the resources of that country thus: "RemOve the Apaches from Arizona, and there would be no soldiers, remove the soldiers and there would be no gTeenbacks, take away the greenbackS and there would be no white men, for there is nothing else to keep them there." According to this state ment, the ApacheS are the foundation of prosperity, and the Government does the right thing in sending Quakers to nouriSh, cherish and encourage the development Of this great source of comfort and wealth to the hardy settlers there. He further re- ports that two bit meal in Los Angeles lone of Johnny Moore's best, for instance) is a feast for king compared with the mess of dirty beans furnished down there for one dollar. The barbers charge one dollar for cutting hair and fifty cents for shaving Christian. Potatoes are eight cents per pound, and all the neceSsaries of life are held at starvation prices. The pie ture would be gloomy one, if drawn by any one but Haines in his quaint, inimita- ble way, and even as he tells it, it makes us feel thankful that we live in Los An geles and not in Arizona.
 The Arizona Miner and Arizona Sentinel have each copied the above and comment ed thereon. The SentiDels politeness impels it to doubt whether said Haines ever gave the faIsehoods to The Mirror be of an editor who occupies his space with such stuff to the exclusion of some thing directly favorable to bis own locali- ty, we still believe such an one to be too indolent and barren of inventive power to originate falsehoods relating to iu- terests beyond hls personal observation. After a few weeks of circulation, Haines has not to our knowledge contradicted the statements, and therefore it is taken for granted that he is their father and that The Mirror man regarded them as fat take" for his barren or perverse brain. First, we'll refer to the falsehoods and real facts, and then take diagnosis of one HaiDes of whose kind the country is afflicted with by far too many.
 There is abundant testimony that be- fore the world was obliged to endure the presence of the said Hajnes, or our gov ernment owned Arizona or had a soldier in it, very many thousands of people resid- ed on and tiled the soil of this portion of the earth; that they dug from thls same earth much silver and gold that they had herds the numbers of which would amaze the narrOwminded Haines; that they had canals and acequias the size of which would compare favorably with those pro- jected in the San Joaquin valley by the San Francisco capitalists; that they had cities of commOdiOus and comfortable dwellings whose population amounted to myriads compared to the small swarms thatnow enliven the beatific Los Angeles; that they had churches like the present San Xavier del Bac, near Tucson, whose age is unknown and whose extent and elaborate work m&pShip would, if planted ;n Los Angeles to-day, be regarded by her small minds like those of Haines and The Mirror man, as marvelous-surpasslnG in this respect any of the historical seven wonders of the world, of which seven Haines and The Mirror man are not, won derful as they evidently think they are and as "quaint" and "inimitable as Haines is: and those who have seen near ly every square mile of Arizona, have lived here before and since the advent of troops and hope to exist here after they are nc longer needed, and who with this intention are investing thousands of dol lars in the development of gold, silver, copper and other mines, improvements of their dwellings,, business houses, stock ranches and so forth, are of opinion that the Apaches, whom the "quaint, imita ole" Haines holds are the foundation of prosperity" here, destroyed not only the prosperity described by us as prevailing in Arizona before the coming of troops, and greenbacks, and Haines, but the peo- pie also. So much for this view of the subjects ip hand.
 After Uncle Sam acquired Arizona, ad- venturous Americans explored it and not only found it rich in minerals but many dug nice fortunes of gold out of its earth; they found millions of acres of tillable land and numerous streams of water for ;rr;Ooiion on6 q poarpifioent climate aa