Arizona republican., 1899-05-18

to OOOO and besides he had an in
 c3rre from his sheep, rent of land and his mining stocks and interest cn ms
 Mexican mortgages.
 Gro R-ancto is about the last cum .
 munfsy in ithe country where one Wouio
 lock fc~ the residence Of a millionaire
 with go large an annua. income as
 James RoEinscn has. It is mere | huddle of cnla-stcTy mud structures l-rgrifeJt by the name of houses. They
 are built on the sum baked earth and
 are as primitive as the homes Of the
 Pueblo Indians. There is not wood
 en flOor in the hamlet and Cnly two l lilirla sIorsS, each with a sab-Cn ad-
 junct, and a blacksmith shop are m the locality. The sparse population is fcu--fiftns Mexican, and the commit n:il7 is nl-i. at all American in any of it's ways. Yet Back Jim Robinson, as
 ne is kn-wn all ever the region, be-
 cause Of his marked swaTcniness for
 an American, has made his hcIne in | Oro Blanco fer thirty years, and will
 probably never live anywhere e-se. He
 came from Poughkeapsla, N. Y, in the
 early 6Cs and was on his way in an
 OK team wagon to the Pacific coast by the anita Fe trail when the p3ssi-
 biIitCes Of making money in cattle
 cama to him. Forthwith he aban-
 dcned the enigrant train to California,
 and has bssn living fn Arizona ever
 since He was blessed W.-h a won
 Clerful ccnii lJoueiCn and iron nerves.
 He has been through Indian cam
 paigns thsic would have killed mlcst
 men, and has had fights for his life
 and prcipe-i-y With Mexican vanquercs
 and with outlaws that would make
 hair-raising narratives. All the inan
 cial ups ecd downs of frOL'-ier alfe
 have he5n his, but about 1875 he
 pa0ved his r.itle to some 45,000 acres Of
 land r0urlIat0Ui5 where he lives, and
 he c1-I1lcd down to c-aIcle. raising as an
 industry He has rr'-;spered wonder fully, and, 6:-Ii,ta the faicl taai- Ee has
 lest tens i-Lf thoEEanidS of dollars by his own ig1l-C1Ilce of commercial prin-
 ciples and in dealings with shresYd purchasing ager-ies fer the great beef concerns in the wecE, he has made q fortune.
 For .twlcfy ycars Black Jim Rob- iEsorl has tecn having Rln average net annual in1-Ina of S45, ,000, while he and his family k-ye tcrn living on less than $500 Of -E each year He has Mexican wife, wElcn he married thirty years ago. when Pale-faced women  Pimas and Maricopa5. lThSre are four young men and five girls in the fam fly, but only three Of them remain at home All the cihe-s have married into Mexican families and gcne out to live in shalilieG and mud hlcuses among the cattle eficng the bcn5lar, just like tha sorls and dausiAl--s of the poorest cowpunclens and sieer.e-1ers in the region.
 The mud hcfne Of s1:s millionaire from New Yc-k would te dslr St $25Q. All the furniture ard househi-Ed ef- fects in it could be replaced fer $500. The floors are of ha-d-racked adobe, the wir-c;ws ard dicc1s are of the cheapest, Cru-lccl1 pattern, and a drop Of paint was Ei3vcT- Stgpli5i1 in5ide CT out The children in this rich cattle mans family have always sleEa in hunks, and tables and chairs have been made fir tll3m of pine by ,Cle Indians. Dozens of articlcs of furniture that the eastern h0CCehold deems absolute nec- essanie5 have never been so much as dreamed Of in Jim Rcbirgon's home at Orc Blando.
 While hundred of thousands l-f dol lars have been piling up for the Robin 1 sons, their mode Of life has never been altered from the early days when they braved living in the Indian country. The oId couple dress in the same coarse, rude garb as of old. The cid | man Wec-I5 Overalls and a gingham | shirt all the time, eN15pt occasionally 1 when a buyer for a Chicago or a Kan sas City packing house comes from Nogales railroad station, thirty miles across the hiot, dusty plain, to talk | over a $30,000 O. S40,000 cattle trans l
 AL T house. Then MT. R3tfnacn may put | cn 9hrcaGLJsr7o and faded ocat that he | bougGE twenty years ago in Tucson. | There is ri-t a book in the house but T 'Cattlemans Guide and a volume of | recipes for curing horse and cattle dis | eases. This milhonaire's family never takes a newspaper, buys no furniture. never tastes such things as ice cream. candy, fish tcr fancy groceries. The | old man SEW a banana for the first lime yecr ago, when he was in No gales. His Cnly ,uxu-y is plug to- bac,l3. He and his wife have net been 100 miles away from Gro Blanco for yea-s. When the time comes to get his pay fer lis cattle ar1 to receive his money from E:s copper properties and the intareist on his mortgages, he rides behind a jaded mule ever to No gai6S Dank, WH2Te G2 mas n1Eed DanH clerk to do all his figuring and letter He says he had dozens of rear relatives living along the Hud1-a river when he left ,here in 1860, cut he has ncvs- communicats1 wD-h any of tEem since he settled in Arizona. Ee is at3JG as ignorant Of the affairs of the world as if he had lived at the ocuIh pole. Two of his boys cannot read or write, 50 closely confined have they been NEch the herds among the foothills and canyons all their boy E-Gd days The Robinson daughters, who VII some day inherit S150,O eaoi, are only a liltla above their half breed Mexican associates in intelli- gence, and have married vaqueros, who earn $40 a mCnth and live in canyons out among the cattle, many miles remote from any one but h. cnGence Chicago Inter-