The copper era., 1904-05-05
That Prospect.

Once in while you find one like this. He has just nine claims, to wit: Bull Pup, Eawhide extension of the Gila Monster. Viuegarone, Tarantula, Tugawalla, Howler. Lead Pipe Cinch and Holy Fright, no: 10 mention the keeiey Cure.
 Now this fe low has nine e,.ht-fOot holes on those nine claims, each and every one Of which is in imaculate limestone unta:nished by any sUgges- ton of copper, uncomprOmised by the slightest association with ion, unsul- lied by the remotest relation with lead. silver or gold. incomparable iu it's superb issolation from the contami mating influence Of any known metal.
 He learns that a coach load of pom derous mining men have landed in Babec from the rigid north, and he shines hIs shoes with stove polish. comes To town and crucifies them one by one. Their hereditary notion Of ciyiity compels them to stand nailed to the cross while he explains, how. in the first place, that trend, contact. or dyke a. the case may be can be plainly traced from the iaphragm Of the Copper Queen right under his virtuous shack, and how he has the same identical variety of "blOssOm' in his back yard that they have in the rear Of the change house at the F ol- brook, and how he is urately astride O, the great copper belt which starts out in Cananea, bobs up in the Huachucas, bloc ~s forth gl0riouslx= is. Bisbee. takes al ''sdiad5rg-oand run to Morsne.. .non de steps to Globe, and finally goes qh'ro the wholesale busi- ness in Jerome. All this time. the next fellow who owns nine claims seyenty-iive miles away at gcOmetri- cal right angles to this belt. can easily twist it around 10 accommodate the theory that he is strictly in the middle Of if, he can do this just as easily as an ostrich can swallow d flat iron. Now this individual is dun D. founded and broken hearted, because the mighty millionaire does not break his neck rushing out to see that prop erty on the owners representations. He is sure that if they could just once see the ground, they could not make out the papers fast enough. At times he has notion to kidnap some min ing baron, hog tie him, carry him out and turn him loose on that ground, knowing that he would be reward ed for his daring and fruitful deed, by the cash and blessings Of the kidnappee, along with d leap year proposal from the millionaire's daughter. But to the investor, the manner in which that poor copper belt has been kinked and twisted and bent and shrunk and stretched by turns by every old liz gard in the district, can only be eX- plained upon the theory of sorcery. Had not copper been distinguished for its instability, that bel, would have been twisted into a thousand times. They eau trace that belt from the por- tals of Paradise U the hatcheS of per- ditiOn, from attitudes below sea level, to elevations so ma lestic that from their hory summits, you could tickle the foot of the man in the moon with a fishing rod, from temperatures that would fade q polar bear to localities where the prOspector melts and runs out of his overalls, and his only vail is, "if l could only go down.
 The fact is, he might bore till the bent up calOra of the internal regions melted the cartoons in his dril bit, and until he broke surface in some China mans tea garden op the autipodes, and he would still be in limestone, i'm maculate. immutablc, indestructibe anu everlasting.
 This particular variety of prOspector is not very numerous but is distin- guished by superlative patience and persistence coupled with d conspicuous aversion to physical training.
 He borcs and disgusts sound mining men, and is the cause of quarantininc many good districts from the business world. FRANK ALEy.
 Bisbee, Arizona.