The Arizona champion., 1890-04-05

l stream as barrel and before the would get half way down they woul l bust all up and get to the bottol and there would be nothing bu , mist. Forty miles from the top oz
 the Argentine side is fine spring
 of sul lphur where they have a bath
 house, and they claim it is very healthful. When we got out of the canyon where the river goes we came across a table land for forty miles, they call it here Pouis, there was very little food here, but a little bunch grass. We saw here too animals something like our an- tolope, farther on we saw drove of ostrichs, they looked very nice but they were very wild and we did not get closer than three hundred yards you can buy all the ostrich eggs you want for ten cents piece. At Mandoza we stopped at the National Hotel at s per day.
 We find here that everything is  raised by irrigation and land is very high that has water on it. Man doza is nice place and is growing very fast. The principal fruit here is grapes that they make into wine. Wine sells here at B per gallon. Well here we find a city that has quite a history in 1861 the old city was destroyed by an earthquake an'l fifteen thousand people were killed here. We went al. through th. oll churches that were partly standing. Some of them the walls were 6 it. thick in one place there were TOO people killed together. One can find out all about it as there are plenty of people that lived close and were there as soon as the shock was ever, every building was either completely destroyed or damaged 50 that it had to be taken down. The stock business is good here, cattle brought two and three hundred miles from here and driven in and what is not used here Is driven across the mountains to Chili. Here we got s2.2 20 for a gold dollar, ali their money here is paper 5c, l0c, 20, 50, $l, S2, $5 and up, The money Is mostly printed by the American Bank Note Co, of New York. The land is very rich and will grow anything shat you can get water on. But everything you buy is very dear. Eggs are l0c piece or when the mrrket is over storked you can buy thsm } for 25c I mean hen eggs ost; ich eggs l0c, but they are to strong to eat, they use them for cooking. sBeet is 20c per pound, onions 5c per piece, flour Sl6 per 100 pounds, coffee 50c, sugar 2Oc, ham 40c, fish 30c. So you see Il days labor can not save anything if hs lives well, as wages is g per lay one can not live at the hotels and work for s2 per day.
 We met several Americans here that have been in the country for or ) years, mostly railroad men. They tell you the best thing for an American Is to get back to the United States as soon as possible and 1 think they are right. If a man has money to invest think it is a good country, but if he has to work by the day 1 think he had better never leave lis own country and especially if he cannot speak the Spanish language. We are not in the country for our business yet, (that Is stock), so we will leave here tomorrow.
 Well here we are at San Leuis the Capitol of the Providence of San Leuis 300 miles from Mandoda on the railroad got ill yesterday This is very nice place of 5000 inhabitants, all natives of this coun- try. We went to the bank this morning to get little gold exchang ed for paper and there was not man in the bank that knew what an American $20 gold piece was, and they sent for man that had beon in New Orleans, and he told them it Was all right, but they would only give us S22 for S20 in gold we took it to the railroad and got | S45 for it.
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