Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-12-22
OUR TUCSON LETTER.

Resume of Latest Happenings. Social, Polit'
ical and What Not, in and Around Tucson
A Budget Of Personal Gossip and Business
Notes.
EDITOR HERALD: Tucson has
such an intimate connection with
Los Angeles at the present time
that | think letter will not be
amiss. Most of your readers, no
doubt, imagine US on the verge OF
civilization, surrounded by hostile
Apaches; but, could they see us,
they would be at once disabused of
that idea. 1t is an Adobe town, to
be sure, there being only one brick
building in the city, the residence
Of w. G. Owls, which ia after the
style Of Gov. Downey's, of your
city. But the town is in a transit
ton state, something similar to
that which Los Angeles expert.
enced years ago, when Mexican
civilization gave way to. American
enterprise; when the adobe fled be-
fore the brick, and when modern
civilization displaced medieval
ideas. To-day Tucson is pulling
down ancient buildings, repairing
modern ones aud building new
ones. The sound of the hammer is
heard in the land aud the adobe.
maker is kept busy. Enlarged
stores, new stores, and palatlal res
licences are being erected on every
side. Around the depot quite
village has sprung up, embracing u
tenement house for employees, ma
chine shop, engine house, repair
shop, round house, two warehouses
for VIM. B. Hooper Il Co., one for
l.. Zeckendorf q Co., the 3. P. n.
Co.'S ice-house and the residence of
Mr.. Longstreet, Superintendent of
Buildings and Bridges. Mr.. Will
liams, Of the firm OF Lord & Will
liams, has almo st finished u pala.
tial residence, two stories high,
with q tower about 40 feet high,
Other gentlemen of means are now
building in tho vicinity OF the de.
pot, and soon it will be q charming
residence spot. But enough Of
building, and we will refer to the
BUSINESS OF TUCSON.
Messrs. l.. Zeckendorf & Co. and
VIM. Zeckendorf each carry stock
of dry goods almost equal to all the
stores in Los Angeles. Tully,
Ochoa & Co., in addition to their
large mining and stock interests,
have an immense miscellaneous
stock. VIM. b. Hooper 4 Co., Of
which firm your old townsman
John E. Carr Is partner, has a
stock of liquors that is simply i'm
mense. The White House, Theo.
Welisch, proprietor, carries q stock
equal to your City of Paris. 1
might name other PARTIES, but
comparisons are odious, and I Will
give you q little
ROMANCE OF MINING.
Six months ago a middle aged
man, q former resident Of Gospel
Swamp, had to borrow money to
buy burro to 60 to Santa Catarina
Mountains, prospecting. He sold,
the other day, mine for $13, 900
and has better mines still for sale.
Another former resident of Los
Angeles discovered u mine in the
Dragon Mountains and kindly
placed friend in the claim. After
y while he was offered $4,000 for
1t and on finding the other half
owner, discovered he was in an adj
vanced stage of intoxicailon. The
whiskeyed individual, who had
not put up a dollar in the claim,
concluded: "worth (hic) a million
(hic) If its worth a cent (hic).
Won't sell (hic) for any $4,000,
(hic.) Our wives will be dressed 10
silks (hic) down In Los Angeles,
(hic.V The result was the parties
bought out the sober partner and
are now engaged In the pleasant
labor Of freezing out the would be
millionaire. Another instance and
will leave mining matters. A
certain miner owed n merchant
here $l1O, and on coming to pay
his note had only 500. The nier.
chant tore up the note, remarking
that 1t was all right, "put me on
come claim you discover" The
miner did 1t and the claim has
since been sold for $40, 900.
POLITICS.
The county is Democratic, as the
last election clearly proved. The de-
feat Of s. w. Carpenter for County
Recorder was greatly regretted by
liberal Republicans as well as
Democrats, and il attributable to
treachery in his own party ranks.
Carp, as he is generally called, is
liberal to fault. He has thous-
ands Of dollars on his books which
he trusted to needy prospectors and
others, and still he was slaughter
ed in the house OF his friends.
Granville H. Curry, Congression-
al Delegate elect, was hore on Mon
day. Unless there he special ses.
sion no will not 20 to Washington
until next November. His cleo
ton was o glorious victory, for he
triumphed over the Federal ring,
notwithstanding their wealth and
numbers. Look ct the vote Of ev-
cry Government post and you will
see that the whole Federal power
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