The oasis., 1901-01-19

anide expert, also from California, making his home in San Francisco, and having been employed in Arizona: Mir. F. W. Perryman, assayer, also d San Franciscan; and Mir. H. Bowden, mill foreman, another Californian.
 MT. J. w. Sharpe, general manager of the company is now absent in Cali fornia, and MT. R. P. Sharpe, mine superintendent is in Chihuahua. on business. MT. Frank Spare, general superintendent is in charge of all in. terests.
 The only American lady in the camp is Mrs. James Stocker, whose hns- band is machinist They are from Alabama, and came into Mulatos in June last. Mrs. Stocker seems con- tented with her surroundings, and makes the stay of her husbands asso- ciates in the employment much more pleasant than 1t would be without her
 Wednesday morning, the third of January my guide to Mulatos, MT. Julius Hallenstein, started upon his return to Sahuaripa. He had proved a very pleasant companion, and gave me much valuable information.
 Mir. w. H. Staver, the cyanide ex- pert for the company, was assigned to show me around, and we put in the morning looking over the mine, the the works and the town. found him very pleasant young gentleman, from California, but a native of H. llnois He was brought up in Free port, only thirty miles from my child hoon home, and in the course of our conversation 1 learned he had an uncle in the regiment in the civil war of which my father was second i1 comm and That of course gave us a bond of sympathy and friendship. He is competent metallurgist and chem ist, and has been engaged great deal in exporting and reporting upon mines. In that capacity he was a time at the Tres Amigos mine, in Orc Blanco, last year He was also en- ployed at the Pearce mine, and was there when the mill was destroyed by fire last year He is to run the cy- anide plant, now being erected at Mu- latos. He showed me through the ta.,. fa ac I as one could travel day through the underground workings without seeing them all; and saw sufficient to grasp an idea of the immensity and value of the property. After that the young gentleman showed me around the salient points in the camp and the sur rounding region, taking with us a camera, and securing several very fine negatives, for use in making eDgrav- iDg for our special illustrated edition.
 The young gentlemen in the employ of the Mulatos company are catching on" in a social way, and in the social swim are getting on swi nmingly. in the face of the not insurmountable obstacle of a limited knowledge of Spanish. An amusing incident is re- lated of one of them. At the Christi mas ball one young lady was compli- menting the beauty and accomplish ments of another she called to his at tention, saying among other pretty things that she had ''ojos de cielo" in allusion to the cerulean hue of her eyes. He understood her to say that the sefiorita with the heavenly eyes 'lived over saloon" aud 50 told the others. Every little while something of the kind occurs to raise laugh aud enliven the dull monotony of life in remote mining camp.
 Captain Frank Leslie, the noted scout and plainsman, is in the employ of the Mulatos Co. When 1 reached the camp he had gone out only few days before with some investors visit- ing the property, to pilot them to Guerrero, Chihuahua, four days jour- ney distant, where they got rail { af homo