Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-20
BRICKS OF GOLD.
Minas Prietas Camp, One of the
 Best iu the World.
One Property Has Furnished S2O,- 100000 of the Wealth of the World-The Biggest Mine
 a Late Find.

| In all the methods of what IS usually
 termed making money" nothing IS
 more attractive than getting down to
 first principe es in money making-to the
 actual extracting and preparing of the | metals that are the basis of all money.
 And there is no greater fascination than in the processes Ut a rich mine, where you can see car of ore and say to your self, "that car contains two S20 gold
 pieces;" or at an amalgamator and you
 can assure yourself that in there is
 what will buy houses and lots, horses
 and carriages, tickets to the end of the
 world, or any other thing We might de-
 sire; or leaving the mine once a month
 or so, quietly, with no howdy-do, but in care of just a few trusty, quiet men, armed for business, goes brick of gold so heavy that carrying it would be feat indeed; and then to think it is gold and that such brick would be the apex of ambition of 90 per cent of the human race-to see this one could not but think "who would not be mine own err"
 Down in Sonora they have camp where all these things come to pass. They have camp that IS the Mecca of a many poor devils pilgrimage, where men have headed for from every point of the compass. Every part Of the world is represented there, and l dare say none of them ever made money any faster than right here.
 I refer to the Minas Prietss camp, out of Torres, IT miles from the Sonora railroad.
 The camp lays no pretensions to beauty. Streets there are none-lust irregular rows of houses. The hoases are adobe mostly in various stages of delapidation. Of stray dogs and bur ros and beggsrs there are more than you could shake stick at. And the camp lave no pretentIons to being health resort. They have small pox all the time there and pneumonia makes ln- roads among "the boys," and It IS dusty and hot, and water is so scarce that the peddlers do not get into town with it. Yet there IS no denying that Minas PrIetas camp is attractive. There is ever the attraction of gold, and where that is, hades itselt would not deter. And the Mines Prietas is not nearly as bad as that. With it's few drawbacks 1t is a good camp. There Is always the music of three stamp mills playing gold en chords, saying nothing Huntington plant and another twenty stamps that will soon add their roar to that already there.
 The inhabitants are what may be ex- pected in such a plsce-mostly natives, with Arizonans next, and lastly other foreigners. Good wages are earned and living is cheap. Pay runs from a peso and a quarter to S5 day in gold. Llv- ing-that is, bosrd-is 50 cents a day (American) ], with room rent in propor- ton to S25 to $50 month for house. Those with work appreciate having a good thing and hold on, while there IS many a poor devil waiting for work. Let warning be taken now. They have ex- trs labor enough in idle men waiting for jobs in Prietss to supply the places of all who may get sick, die or go away for the next year to come. 1 met an old man there who mistook me for resi- dent. He told me that he had walked all the way from the United States there, and wanted to know of the prob abilities of his getting work. 1 saw him a day or two afterwards-he was sitting in Charley Wadleigh's-and there was in the droop of his countenance pic ture of utter despair. Of TuGsonltes they have a dozen or so working Tn the mines and mills, with rather more from Nogales. Other parts of the territory also come in for representation.