Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-20
LITE AT A DESERT MINE
Side Lights of the Gunsight Bonanza--- Thermometrical Tidings---Mirage, Air, Buoyancy, life and Long
 eVity.
Corr. Phenix Herald

Corr. Phenix Herald.
 GUNsIGHT MINE, Pima O. Ariz.,
 December 5th, 1890,
 For people who daily pass over a block of ground 600 feet long by 200 feet deep. that contains five million and some odd dollars in silver ore, ready to be hoisted into the Silver Girt Mining Companys pan mill, as soon as the new stamp bat tery is in place, we are not really very proud. Yet that Is the prospect for Gun sight and Silver Gift mine owners. some of whom are here now directing operations on the surface and underground that shall shortly put so enormous sum of shining metal into circulation. But of the Gun sight mine and mill properties let me defer a fuller account for some future letter.
 BUSINESS IN A NEW CAMP.
 The signs of approaching activity in this rich camp have already been detected from afar. Merchant Sutherland heard the creak of freight wagons and the grind of hob-nailed miners boots as teamsters and drill thumpers hurried thither. He packed up his Sonora store goods and joined the Gunsight procession. His trade is small as yet embracing, however,
 
 ing with Papago Indians for a two-bit coyote skin to retailing pound of ap- pies to white folks at 40 cents per pound. But when the 40-stamp battery has grown to 100 stamps, and the Silver Girt Com pany's employees have increased from 25 to $50 or more, pioneer Sutherland will not regret his prudence in locating the first mercantile establishment on Gun sight soil.
 J. H. Bassett. formerly Of Maricopa, has not been backward in erecting monument to RaeohIs, His. inspiring beverages come from Goldman < Co.'s and so the Herald representative does not feel entirely lost, despite the desert stretch of 130 miles that lies between him and his Phenix home.
 Joe Joss House, the Chinese landlord from Hong Kong, Is another prominent feature in Gunsight's industrial life. The Flowery kingdom rated his culinary skill at Ss10 per month. In Nevada he com manded $50 Tombstone and Tucson have paid SIS week. Yet he prefers a hostelry of his own, with $1 day for board. in this new camp, to any financial inducement elsewhere offered. He sets a good table. but Is meeting some 0pposi- ton from Mexican "baahersh who set up housekeeping for themselves about the 1 time that three or four sacks disappeared from unsuspecting Joe's fat flour heap. 1 This flour, by the way, is produced at 1 Territorial Treasurer Smiths new Phe- nix mill.
 Indian squaws are beginning to pack 1 in barley sacks of charcoal on their ponies and heads, at 9 cents per sack, for assay i purposes. In various ways trade seems 4t,r away out here in the desert, seventy miles south of Gila Bend and thirty-fye miles north of the Sonora line.
 WELLS AND CACTUS.
 ! Just now Bill Haine's we'll is the only enc, save Tom GIiId's, twenty miles north. between here and Gila Bend i William Is making a good thing out of i his water at two cents per gallon, but this Silver Girt Company will spoil his busi- ness when their big Knowles pump starts up. Bathing under such circumstances seems wickedly extravagant, so we back against 20-foot sahHaro and, with the Duke of Argyle. bless that greater lord who, for scratching posts invented the giant cactus.
 I Giantes cacti. They constitute the most prominent minor feature of the scenery here. Of course the blue ser rated hills encircling cur valley; the bluer skies that rest upon them; the sturdy peaks that rise in the center of { spreading plain; the sun, the moon anC the countless diadems of our Armament are grand, exhilarafing, constant sources of new pleasure. But the solitary cactus sentinels, standing so patiently on theil picket duty of centuries, seem to exhor IfDf f. struggle on, parched though he be, anC smite the mountains till, like Aaron's rod their sharp drills release fountain afte fountain of pure silver.
 HOT AND COLD.
 We have had a week of rain and cheer less weather But the sun soon melt those somber memories, and we romp ant skip with rapid movement of cholla bur when carelessly sat up on, A loea meteorologist has recorded upon an olt office door the following data whicl doubtless shows the extreme annua variation of weather. These are his fig ures Aug. 23rd, 1890, 20 degrees. Dec 9th, 2315 degrees. That is a change, prob ably. of about 96 degrees between tn extreme cold of winter and the hot day of summer.
 
 l, The most popular camp curiosity f Billy, i. e. Bill Haynes half growni dee that he caught when fawn and reare' ] in civilizations van. Billy wears a pin ribbon and tinkling bell. He has tn 5 freedom of the camp. When we hear hi
 Santa Claus jingle we hunt up out suga
 cubes. for they're what Billy's after. Fo
 one lump he lets us look into his ricl [ tyr-O rr1 ba ? to our parlor and permits common cla , to stroke his young horns still in thei r velvet At other times Billy wanders O ) for two or three days, hunting with store I keeper Sutherlands big, black, stump 2 tailed, Newfoundland watchdog, Bob. I : Central Park or WoodwaTd's Gardel Billy would poll every juvenile vote on [
 off the great register of humanity, e MIRAGE AND OTHER MARvELs. ! ! Another treat is the eastern mirae ], that occasionally succeeds sunshln , Great lakes, promontories, peaks, ship suspension bridges, railroad trains an
 marvellous processions move maiestiacll across the orient, for an hour or nor :, surnassing the grandest pageant tn; /, man ever attempted. One such specta | ular exhibition alone is worth the fatigr 5 of journey here. But there are a hu
 dred other attractions. Water from ou
 single well is delicious. Tonic air stim1 1T lates the merry maiden we brought vii e us to almost constant laughter, and ever s- townsman feels daily more sprightliness n If you seek solitude, where soci 1t frivolity is exchanged for Natures las 2, ing entertainments, visit the Gunsigl D. mine and camp amidst its cacti. I The Source of Government. t. Christian Union.
 IT Public sentiment is greater forC of sometimes, than law: it compels mo ,n perfect obedience. In actual fact, the tS .o ,,,r,,,In 1n.n,1ld and hraolr Ia,