Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-27
MINING EDITOR
ON THE WING
Stops Few Hours at Douglas On His ; Way to Sonora.

Way to Sonora.
 Douglas. Feb. Five are in Doug las. We don't want the papers here to say any thing about it, however as every man who misses a chicken intthe next two weeks will charge II up to us. Our party includes Messrs. Bateman' Dolls Landau, Clark, shat tuck and the mining man of the Re view. We got through Don Luis with out getting lost, thanks to the tender guidance of the chief of police. Every man is provided with a shot sack and a candle stick. and will just pick mug gets out of the ledge, to distribute among their wife's relations when they get home. In this little tug of war for gold and glory, Lem Shattuck is our anchor man He squares us for every thing We want from Sixth street to the north pole.
 Lem has a voice like man at the bottom of S0-foot shaft, and when he sounds the tocsin, We all fall in. We all paired off and Gus Landau fell to my melancholy lot. He shaved his mustache of to keep from paying duty on it. then had to pay s2.50 to get his jag over the line. My expenses in the same line came some what higher.
 Douglas bid fair to be warm thing last Monday when the Roy hotel got on fire, but soon cooled under the persuasive effect of a steady stream of water under the direction of the Doug las fire brigade, which is strictly on to it's job.
 After one round in Douglas, we all swore off drinking. We asked for the best thing in the house. This partic- ular vepder of fluid enthusiasm makes his goods right in front of you, so you will know they are pure. The dose he represented to be pure Ander- son county bourbon, was compounded by dissolving yard of barb wire in nitric acid. along with dash of eva hide of potassium and finishes up by squeezing a tarantua in it. As it goes down. you go down with it. Gus and I got our six bits changed into Mexi- can money at Douglas. and had hat full. It seemed to us We never had so much money before. but every time we bought a cigar it would take a handful to settle the bill. so there is little dang CT of our money pulling our overalls of after all.
 It takes some dinero to keep any thing on ones stomach in Douglas. A 'st'' bone steak. which is cross section of the small of a yearlipg's back with a tail to it, along with fugitive bit of onion, will cost you six bits American. or three handfulls Mex.
 The Calumet and Arizona smelter is a thing of beauty at night, especially at a distance; it looks a little bit too much like work at close quarters. Its electric light system looks from Doug las like pageant at sea
 l am hanging out at the headquar- ters of the Atlas Mining bureau. It is the rockiest place in Douglas. There is rock from the Tiger, rock from the Pavo Rico, rock from all over Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora. The Atlas bureau is doing heroic work to- ward disseminating information in re- gard to the mining field, and their grat- uitous answers are not confined to shrinking inquiries in pink envelope, penned by the dimpled hand of 8 six teen-year-old bunch of irresistibiiity, but they cheerfully answer the inquIs- itive interrogatories of any old Hazard.
 We are going over into Sonora to- day. that is if the customs officials are good We expect to take up home, stead on the Yaqui with 478 pertinen- cias of sandstone on the side, go into partnership with some languishing Senorita. have the old alcalde adopt us and grow down with the country. We are provided with bale of old gunny sacks. in which we will enve! ope our dainty toes while laundering through the snow from the railroad to with nuggets and snow water. We will probably return without money oI blankets. tobacco or reputation as to the last named article, we can well afford to lose that.
 If Bisbee disincorporates before we return. or Arizona becomes yoked uI with New Mexico, we will remain ir Sonora and run for president of Mex ico, which we have been urged to dc by several influential Yaqui-Aztecs al ready Try and do the best you car to keep Bisbee alive till we return.
 Yours in Sonora.
 Alley