Arizona silver belt., 1879-08-15
The following letter has been re- ceived at this office
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TO anc Ed1t0r-
 CENTENNIAL HoTEl., WEsT OAK LAND, Cal, July 19, 1S79-I have just learned about your paper from n Chicago man named Gen. Solomon, who once held hlga office in your city l don't knoa anything about l Chicago myself apart from the i'm ] pressione 1 got of it's fine buildings on 1 passing through there thirteen years 1 ago on ny xay to Arizona lneyer heard of the Chicago fire till l was informed about t last winter by a German from Chicago named HesIng. i whom met at Prescott, and after ward at Tucson, Arlzona. Hesing and a man named lIlse were looking aroand for mine there, with poor prospects of getting any. People In the easterp states have no ldea of those schemers engaged in mining enterprises. They dig | hole ID the ground, shoot some brass -hhags into the ground through 3 gun, and as brass is the exact color of gold in it's normal condition, a green hand does not kuoE the difference. This does not apply to desing and liise, who are not by any meaus green in min ing matters, for as far as their brass 1 tihngs went they turned them to good account by shooting them into a hole eight feet square called he l Chicago Milling anu Mining com pany's claim. This ] have seen myself and can vouch for 1 learned from Hesing that Chicago was be- coming a great place for mining interests. If the foolish people only knew what schemes are played upon them ln connection wlIh minDg, they would never invest a dollar in that way. The people of the Pacific slope are so well posted tbas you could not get a man to invest dol far in mimng; hence the hundreds of mines which exist only on paper are 1 brought to the eastern ciues for the purpose of robbing the people there out Of their money. There is q con- cern started by a man named Cherry, lof Chicago, called the Leta Gold and Silver Milling, Mining and Water company, winch exists only in lmagin- auou. l understand they have sent man to Chicago, CincinAa5i sI d New York to sell. l hope he won't succeed in robbing the people with this imaginary mine. as they have Irobbed thousands in San Francesca.
 To return to Hesing. l heard him say there was a nau,esake of mine in Chicago named Gen. McArthur. Please send me his address, as [ am desirous of corresponding with him, as am in comfortable circumstances and want to got into civilization again. l have lived for twelve years. among savages, so to speak. This condition IS not common to me, for 1 knoE hundreds in Arizona, who are very wealthy, who are dJiug of solitude for want of intercourse with civilized people. Arizona affords no better chances for people conEem- plating marriage than to select wives from among soaaKs, half breeds, or Greasers, who form tue majority of nOmadic tribes of Arizona aud New Mexico. If your oyercrowded eastern cincs knew of the chances of marri- age deceut Ropen would have among these wealthy miners and farmers of. Arizona, they would flock here in droves. Yours.
 DANIEL MoARTHUR. Ne re- publish the above letter from tue Chicago Times for the amusement and entertainment of Arizona readers who delight in the marvellous, and wish to revive the pleasant recollecuons of Muncbau- sen. Ia McArthur's effasion, he be- strides Arizona like a Colossus and, like the brazeu image at Rhodes, oh9Rs a great deal of brass in bis .composition, especially, in the checks, and 1t IS more than suspected that from the superabundanee there, he supplied Hesing and Elise with filings winch, according to himself, they turned to good account by " shoot ing them iDfo a hole called tue Chi cago Milling and Mining Company claim 2 McArthur says he has seen that hole and can vouch for t. 7 He has had bis finger in t, DO doubt, ilud # -ahe truth were known, he had | friend 10 exenine it through an ilnai specpluin, bat shat his friend .IaH bruss filings shere He have our tloubts Had he said ascaris Norms,