Arizona republican., 1890-06-08
ON THE CURBSTONE.

''SlHns or some 1OrIner race Wltn custOns queer And no apparent riches"
 ON THE CURBSTONE.
 I noticed that the wheel of fortune man disappeared from the streets after I called attention to him. This is right, he should never be allowed to reappear on the streets.
 My friend Captain Cree, who is one of the oldest miners in Arizona, says that what Phoenix needs now is reduction works. In speaking of the matter the other day he said: 'I think know something of the ores of this section as have worked in them more or less for the last twenty-five years. The ores contiguous to Phoenix will not bear long transportation, but they can be very readily hauled to the city. With re- duction works here the ores can be crushed, all the free gold extracted and then the concentrates can be shipped to smelting works at very little expense
 However, once get reduction works that do good business and a shelter will | follow as matter of necessity. With $10,0O0 1 could erect reduction plant here that would pay handsome divi- dend for it's stockholders. 1 sincerely hope some one with money enough will take up with the captains ideas soon.
 have grievance against dog. This particular dog lives .n the same block that do. He has discovered that am afraid of him, and he takes malicious delight in springing at me unaware and betraying a fiendish desire to sink his gleaming teeth in the calf of one of my legs. This pernicious habit has SO grown upon him of late that have taken to crossing the street to avoid him. At first, hunted up club, of gradually increasing dimensions, every time 1 was compelled to pass the dogs house-but this was of no avail. The longer and longer the club, the fiercer grew the dog -and he had such happy faculty of becoming more and more fierce while keeping just out of reach that have broken three pairs of suspenders and four silken belts in my agonized efforts to smite him. He is still unsmitten, and he has not yet discovered my subterfuge of crossing the street to avoid him. Should he do so, l will be compelled to go around the block or carry gun. Seriously, why should people be allowed to annoy their neighbors by keeping a vicious cur within the city limits?
 There is something wonderful about the fascination of newspaper work. It is like the stage in that respect. Let man once get fully into it and he is never satisfied with anything else. I had letter from an old San Francisco friend the other day, who lately gave up newspaper work to accept very flat tering offer at his old profession of architectural drafting. His letter is so good in it's way that take the liberty to use a portion of it even at the risk of being guilty of showing ones let ters." He says:
 Newspaper work has spoiled me for architectural work. It is such grind -8 to 12, to 5. Eight hours solid grind; and it is grind. If one was doing nothing but designing and sketch ing and was not tied down to certain hours it would be very good but as it is, it is as I have said three times before grind. Don't see anyone but contrac- tors and material men. No chats with people, no smoking; but close, unre- mitting application to plans and detail drawings. Terribly monotonous. Of course for the artistic side of architecture have as much love as ever, but in small nfE u,tth nt,1x ~I I1o you cannot put the dry work onto be- ginners and the cheaper and less trained men. Of course in newspaper work a man works from fourteen to sixteen hours a day and works hard, just about as hard as any one. But there is noth- ing monotOnOus about it. Even while on duty, if man wants little walk and breath of fresh air he can go out and take it if he is not too hard pressed by his work. One meets and rubs against people and works with jolly good fellows and there is a lot of variety which exerts a great fascination and takes away the feeling of drudgery. Whew! but this architectural drafting comes tough on me now."
 have been considerably interested in the reported filibustering expedition into Lower California and I believe that the erstwhile International company, now known as the Mexican Land and Colonization company, had more of a hand in the scheme than it has been given credit for. In 1888 I was in San Diego when a newspaper man ap- preached me with what he called ''the greatest sensation since the John Brown raid." His story, which he claimed to get from woman who had been high upin the councils of the International company, set forth that there was deep-laid scheme on the part of the British proprietors of the company to seize Lower California. took but little | stock in the story at the time and | know it was offered to several of the leading newspapers of the country, all of them refusing to touch it. The story was so great that it seemed absolutely About ysar later the
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