Arizona republican., 1899-07-30

ing railroad community from a strug-
Cling hamlet within a few months
From all I can gather the ''strug-
Cling hamlet has rot materially
| changed during the past few months
and the highest estimate of the pres
ent population DOES not exceed 1000
But for monumental pravarication
the following undoubtedly takes the
kettle:
''The rise in the value of real es-
tate in Chloride is an Interesting chap
ter in the story of the springirg ur
of this town in the arid plain. A
year ago the site of the business and
residence part of Chloride might have
been bought from 4 Mexican sheep
heTder for 800 or 5000. possibly less
The owner tried to trade it in 1896
for several steers. Last February one
might have bought an acre here and
there among the rocks for $50 or $40.
Today single lets cut from these same
rock acres are bought from 5000 TO
$500 each. A dozen lots OF what is
now the main street of Chloride have
sold for $1,000 and two corner bust
ness lots sold last week for $1,000. If
the mines continue as profitable as
they are now. said John SWiggart
who has made and lost three fortunes
in town lots in othsr mining camp
boOms. viii be selling SiXty-fo0t front
business lots in Chloride at $1,000 be-
fore September. and no one knows
how high they may get by January.
It makes me sick TO think that with
$1,000 four months ago 1 might now
own real estate here that rents for
$1,000 4 month and sells for 100000"
John has my heartfelt sympathy. but
what the other fellows who had the
$1,000 We're doing to allow such
golden opportunity to escape them
puzzles me. Perhaps, however. they
We're over cautious and were infu-
creed by ;he fact that no title of any
kind exists to one square foot of the
land on which the ''old'' town of Chic
sales of advantageous positions for
business purposes at very moderate
figures have been made, but that is
all.
The new town site owned by the
railroad company is patented and
some few lots have already been
sold and with the gradual and legti-
mate growth of the Chloride district
tHbIe " III tUutDtItSS " Il COlSIGtIdtJIR
demand for these lots.
The brilliant writer of This extraor- !
binary production winds up thus:
All the Institutions that accompany
/ rush to a new gold or silver field are
already in Chloride. There are clerks. !
railroad men, statesmen. lawyers |
mining kings and all the /
Iepraved characters that one sees in /
amp life"
The lawyers. perhaps. viii not /
mind this. bu5 II is surely rather hard /
IN the clergymen.
1t was my intention to deal With /
his remarkable article got up entire /
Y for eastern consumption. after my
-eturn from Chloride. but there is no
leed 20 leave Kingman to get the
acts necessary to refute lis absurd .
Xaggerations and the sooner. in the
interests Of legitimate mining in the
erritory Il thing of this sort is
GO. ched the better.
Chloride is = coming camp and has Il
Promising future which instead of be
Nc helped forward viii only be re
arded by unScruDuIOuS boomers. sucil
: the men who are responsible for
he circulat ton of this fake throughout
he country.
Tomorrow. on Saturday. 1 expect TO
oe able to give the readers of The
republican a description of Chloride
nd its mines as they actually exist
which it viii be interesting to com
are With the Chloride Of the New
-oIk Sun. Kansas City Star and San
Francisco Chronicle.
r. J. H. FRY.