Arizona republican., 1898-06-25
AT THE HOTELS.

As rule the commercial drummer furnishes a good barometer indicating
 the rise and fall Of business activity
 throughout the country. If he is gathering in good orders from town to town, averaging good along the route, it is safe to presume that business is
 generally increasing. If one or two
 towns pan out we'll and others i'll, it
 is safe to apply the term spasmodic
 to trade. If business Is at all regular. the best man to watch is the whisky
 drummer. Increased business in his line is generally indicative of the con dition of business in all other lines of
 trade. The statement made by M. M.
 Poole at the Commercial yesterday shows that it is not always safe to call cdlate other business by the condi-
 uons attending the sale of liquors
 wholesale. MT. Poole travels for E..
 Martin & Go. of San Francisco, and
 has been welcome visitor here for a dozen years. He said:
 My field of operations begins at Stockton, and range pretty thorough
 Iy through southern California and southern Arizona At this season of
 the year, every year or any year, it is impossible to gauge general business by my orders, or rather lack of orders taken. The fact of it is that in the heated term this is not whisky re- zion. Appetites run to thirst quenchers. Lemonade, soda, sarsa- parilla and buttermilk. You would be surprised to know the quantity of buttermilk drank daily during the hot season. was in Bakersfield one day last week. It was hot day, very hot. I sat in cool place, and there were present not few men all joined in an effort to keep cool. While was in that place counted 200 drinks served Out of the 200 only two or ders were for whisky. The other 19s were for lemonades, buttermilk and beer. There is not so much beer drank, either, as formerly. It is not a good drink for a hot climate, It has a bad after effect'
 From all this one could readily form q text for a strong temperance lecture.
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 George F. McFall was in his usual seat at the Commercial corner yester- day afternoon, having just come in from the Union mine. He says that Captain J. G. Evans is hard at work on the property, getting out ore and developing new bodies. There are six or eight men at work and the outlook for a mill run at an early day Is good MT. McFall is one of the democratic candidates for county sher- iff, and his shibboleth is free silver and catch-criminals-aliv Just as soon as he has his pegs all set to capture the nomination he will prob ably return to the Union mine to as- sist in making that run of ore.
 J. M Birkett, one of the incest old chaps of the antediluvian Arizona period to be found still on top, arrived at the Commercial yesterday. T have just come in from the rock ribbed, gold-lined hills of cid Yava- pail" said he, "and for year past I have been placering in the region of Frog Tanks. The greatest drawback in the business is wet ground. Here you pray for rain, and every drop that falls in answer to your prayers is death blow to your old Uncle Joe. So it goes, One mans meat is another mans poison No, I don't anticipate that a man could ever become a John Jakey Astorbilt on that placer ground. The truth is a fellow making days wages is all that's in it, and a dollar is wages. I came in to rest and see folks. I like to see folks once in awhile, and I stay out until I just can't stand it another minute, and then I come in and visit"