Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-15
THE BOSS LIAR.
What B. N. Drazal" Told a Chicago Paper and What TombstOne People KnOwAbout Him.

"NO, sir; l have no use for Mexico because the Government took every thing had in the world and turned me away penniless," said B. N. Ora. gel, owner of the big Cincinnati mine at Tombstone, at the Auditorium ho- tel yesterday. "It was ten years ago when l purchased strip of land near Sonora, Mexico, forty miles from the mouth of the San Pedro river and thirty miles from Cananara. The land was good mining property and I knew if it were worked right I could make a good many thousand dollars. I had $8,OOO when I started to work and with part of this I purchased mining implements, powder, etc. For eight cen months I worked alone at the mine, drilled tunnel GOO feet long through hard rock, and finally struck what I was looking for-an arsenical ledge of silver. I had worked Sun days, Christmas, Thanksgiving and every other day, never keeping account of dates. It was happy day when. I reached the silver ledge, for the mine with all the machinery I had there, was worth fully $4O,OOO. I wished to celeb, ate the event, and as I couldn't think of anything better to celebrate with than bacon I determined to have some. There is no such thing as Mex ican bacon, you know. Hogs there have to lean against tree to grunt. The duty in Mexico cn pork is 70 per cent, and as could get bacon across the line, at Ochoaville, A. T., for 20 cents pound, I determined to ride over there and get some. That's where I made g great mistake, for when I was returning with four pounds of the meat the Mexican officers captured me. ! was taken before magistrate of some kind and everything I pos sessed in Mexico, eve, to my horse, was confiscated by the Government.
 During the last month I was there I had transferred half o.' the mine to a man named Gates, he having agreed to put mill into the mine. He set up a claim to his halt ef the property, but was not recognized and got noth- ing. The Mexicans at Sonora were only too glad to find some excuse to take my mine from me. They knew it was valuable and did not like to see it the property of an American. l tell you that was rather expensive ba. con at $10,000 a pound."
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 EDITOR PROspECTcR: The above is an extract from a Chicago paper and was published some tims since, but occasioned no comment, with the ex- ception of laugh or passing remark concerning the author. The story has reached such wide range that it's ap pearance in the State of Sonora and also ia the City of Mexico orcasioned much adverse criticism, and is not, if it goes further, conducive of any good between those who I've on the border. It therefore becomes the duty of "prospector" to sh ,w up the lying as- sertions of the author of the article to those outside of Tombstone who may not know him. The man who is the hero of the story is N. B. Lazard. and it will be noticed that he spells his name backward in giving it to the newspaper which published it. The Big Cincinnati" mine of which he speaks is the little Cincinnati mining claim near Ajax Hill. in Tombstone, and as near as I can find never pro- duced dollar, although B good pros pect. Again, if Lazard is the owner of it the records do not show it., al- though he has an interest in it of some kind.
 The story of his mining ventures in Mexico are too we'll known in Tomb stone to need any repetition, but for the benefit of those who do nat know the story I will say that 'arly in the eighties, about 'S3, he in- crested Gates, who had a ranch on the san Pedro, in mine which he had at the Providencia camp. Gates put up the money and Lazard did the work. When Gates sack gave out work stopped. His reputation in Sonora was very unsavory. In fact, both of them had the name of being crooked. Gates was arrested and indicted by grand jury in your county and was tried and acquitted after much trouble, The mine which Lizard speaks of was