National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-17
TALES FROM TUCSON.
JOHN cHINAMAN AND SILVER LoDEs.
How the Moon-Eyed Heather Works and Saves
His Money, But Don't Get Nsturalized-
Palace Hotels-MaryelOus Wealth
Mining and Gambling.
Special Correspondence of TEE RErupE1cAN

Special Correspondence of THE REPUBLICAN,.
Tucson, A. T., May 9.-Before the depot,
on the opposite track, stand dozen platform cars
piled with dirt and gang of no less than thirty
FIVE John Cinnamon are unloading. My eyes,
how they make it fly! The expression is good
one for their long handled shovels go fast and the
dry dirt floats off in the air until it is almost i'm
possible to see, parched is the ground But first
of the Chinamau. find the almond eyed oriental
| everywhere in this southwestern part of Uncle
Sans farm, and everywhere apparently doing
good work just the work our Uncle aforesaid
needs. Along the level track of the railroad
through leagues of desert where only the goblin
cactus and the spikey agave grow, with tufts of
straw between, he plies his ceaseless shovel No
stopping to light the dudeen there-no cheating
massa with spoonful throws. In the laundry the
hotiron flies swift the shuttle i'll the loom, and
like it without rest. In the hotel they glide about
their duties without stay or gossip or idling at the
| door. And hear
| But ONE COMPLAINT
| made against them. The rascals save all they
| earni Now, isn't this frightful crime? Let the
hoodlumS loOseI Beer must be brewed, and, of
course, if brewed, it must be sold. The average
American citizen holds it to be his inalienable
right to spend his money as he will. But, then,
Hang Ii and Pin Lee don't get naturalized. and so
are not entitled to the inalenable rights men,
| toned by Jefferson in the Fourth of July docu-
ment. But the dirt train is already unloaded, and
1t and pass on. Now across the landscape, which
| the clouds of dust hid before, look mile across
arid fields of mesquite brush to the base of abrupt
mountain range, steep rough, rocky, and sharp as
the Imagination can picture, and when the Titans
framed these rocky ribs of earth
WHAT TERRIBLE BLOWS
they struck the furrowed, chasmic sides disclose.
Two miles away to the west, across unduiating
plain, dry as the flying wind, across Tucson's
streets thereon and across the little valley of the
RIO Santa Cruz, another congregation of peaks
mark the sky line with shapes fantastic as any
seen in dreams. This is the site of the city of
Tucson, once the capital of Arizona, now the rally
ing place for mining men and SPECTATORS who
have heard of the millions of shining metal hid
den in the mountains around Every ones mouth
is full Of silver except at least when he eats at the
1" Palace" All hotels nowadays are palaces
or Grand" but my palace of Tucson gives one
terrible doubts of the truth of the food of bullion
The tablespoons of the rudest pattern of iron,
such as would Salty the most spartan soul. The
teaspoons come in the same descriptive list ex-
cept that some, with the knives and forks, were
mayhap baptized long ago in a bath of other
metal and dubbed silver plate, pseudonym at
that, for I'm sure it was never more than
THE SILVER OF CORNWALL.
But, however it may be at 1.-THE Palace" the
lawyers all talk OF silver mines. The courts are
busy trying silver eases, and all the world moves
on to Tombstone, the grave of ninety in every one
hundred of the pilgrims who worship mammon
there. And there is a marvellous wealth there
SPANS Argosies never in all the years of her
pride, bore TO her shores many millions of the
shining ore. 1t lies in heaps on the hillside of
Tombstone and the shafts are sunk III her streets
not for water but for silver that stream of which
men drink to thirst evermore. Little more than
year ago not the wild bird broke the solitude
OF the slope among the mountains, and now more
than six thousand hungerng, longing, feverish
souls dwell there. Whole streets have taken the
place of rock
AND PRICKLY PEAR.
Great hotels have sprung up; banks are thronged
for exchange; daily newspapers have become the
daily necessity of the business citizen. to furnish
the news of the hour and fine sheets they are
crediablc in typography and in general ability to
papers of Eastern cities. In word, the days of
40 have come again, and the men of 40 with hot /
eyes, dlSheveled hair uncOmbed beard, faces /.
brown with the sum- careless of dress and of pistols
yet more so, go about the streets. And mining is |
gambling. Energy, and SKILL and business capacity
may find its place when the mine is developed and
while the treasure house lasts; but the door of /
the cavern of wealth opens only to the sesame of /
unknown chance. But the bell of the engine OF |
the approaching train sounds near, and bid fare
well to Tucson and you. WAN !