Arizona republican., 1891-07-08

showed Inetn tne ores. l toll them of the find. They were wild with excitement. They were half crazed with delight. Anl in ten minutes some of them went just as far Into the do- mainsof unrest and uahapplness for fear somc one mi ;ht tin l anl jino the claim ere got buck to guard it. The Copper hel comDiny was organized that night.
 The "EatiusiaSt," mal wio lived in tle vtry top loft of copper ilsan- ity, was seat dOwn with me to super inteal the sinking of the shaft. The secret was soon out. Shares ia the vein were cag 'rly covetel. sol few feet for 500, G.il deemed had conferred a great favor on the buyer in letting it go so cleaply. lived up, way up, ia tens of thousands anl hundreds of thousands of doll,,rs. The ''company" in Sonora met almost every night to push things. wlil, tn, Elthusiast anl myself blasted an l burrowel il the rock. By day they exhaust q their spare isl il horse hire, rililg dowl to the claim hops of be- in; on hlnl when the next blast saould reveal be of ore immense in breadth anl unfathomable il depth. ...
 liy company was made up chiefly of lawyers. doctors, politicians and editors, They never realized how much they were ia lebtc {, me. For four months made taeal feel rich, anl if man feels rich what more should he wanti For q millionaire can do no more than feel rich. ......
 Feeling certain that the Copperhead was a very rich claim, and that other rich claims would be developed from the "extensions." and that bustlinS town woull be the result, pre-empted a sec ton of the land which deemed most valuable. on which it was inte Ided that "Copperhead City" should be built. This "city"I partly laid out. think this was he tlird city had laid out in Cali fornia.
 There k a sepulchral and post mortem suggestion in the term ''lail out" which is peculiarly applicable to all the ''cities" which 1 attempted to found, and which "cities" invariably foundered. Actuated also, at that time, by those business principles SD largely prevalent Tn most Christian communities. "claimed" the only spring of good driskin3 water in the neighborhoo of my city" My in tent il this was il time to realize profit from the indirect sale of tais water to such of the future "city's" population as mi ,ht wlnt witer--not to sell it by tl3 glass or f,illol, of course; but if there was to b9 ''city" it woal1 neel water works. The water works woull neces- sarily lie ol my lanl. would not be guilty of tn, iuhumanity of selling water to parch toaguel people, but l proposed that the "city" should buy of me the grounl out of which came the water.
 But one house was ever erectel in Cop perheal City proper. an1 that hal but one room. But three m.a ever lived in it.. Yet the city was thiclly populated. It was locltel il regular jungle, so far as ilngle is ever attained iL California, and seonel the head center anl trystins place of all tlo rattlesnaies. cools, siun,is, owls anl foxes on the west side of TaJl, mountain. Whel the winter wUr3 or anl tho warm California spring worh oa ani mcryel into the summer heat of May. anl the pools ma le by the winter rlins drie mp. think all the rattlesnaSes an copperheads for miles arounl went for my pre-e.npted spring of pure water. .....
 The "city"-Imoan the house-was To- cate within f-w feet of tl, spring. R.turaia, tlitl 1T at noo1 for dino1;, l hIve starts hllf doz,l snis,s from the purlisls an l su5ir3' of tn tt spring. Snliei g.t d:y likc hlnal bsiI5s. Snakes love water. Snakes. poor things, cant gst anything elss to drink, ani must fiji up oI water. Tines, were so. ciable snakes Whea startled at our ap. proach they woul not rul .:ay from our society. No. Tney preferred to re, main in the "city," anl so, in mIny in' stances. they rll unler ths house. It Is not pleISint at night tJ feel that you are sleeping over a veteran rLitler Tour feel long, with a crown of glory on his tall il the sLIp, of fourteen or fifteen rattleS. Yol woa't crawl ualer your bouse to evict sucl rattlesnake either. Sxunks inhibited ouf "city" also. Sxunks know their pJwer-.heir peculiar power.
 The evening gloanling seems the ia voritc time tor the skunk 10 go abroad He or she loves the twilight. There must be u vein of sentiment in these fal smelling creatures. have i'll the early eveain3cltxaleI up tie only street oul ''city' ey&g{il out-a trail-and aheue of me 01I11 trail have seen skunk Twas vG Ae should preceds ma. II willinS S a lony way behind him