Arizona republican., 1908-08-01

| placed in the tens column. The last
 number drawn goes into the units col
 umn. Thus, if the first number drawn was 2, the second ,, the third and the fourth 9, the winning number would be 2549, and the person holding the ticket calling for that number would
 get the grand prize, s30O0 gold
 The nine tickets ending in the last
 three figures of the winning number
 win S10O in gold each. The ninety
 tickets ending in the last two figures
 of the winning numbers get five dol
 lars gold each, and the nine hundred
 tickets ending in the last figure of the
 winning number get two dollars each.
 Besides these there are eighteen ap- proximate prizes They are the nine tickets above and below the winning
 ticket These draw fifteen dollars gold
 each.
 On one Sunday Of each month the
 prizes, and the price of the tickets are all doubled The grand prize for
 this drawing is $7.5O0 gold On ordi-
 nary drawing days a ticket costs one
 dollar gold, or, if one does not hap
 pen to have a dollar to spare he may
 buy one-fifth of a ticket for twenty cents, each ticket being divided into five parts. It is probable that more of the tickets are sold in fifths than in the whole. Thousands patronize the lottery who have not the money to buy g whole ticket, and thousands of others prefer to buy one-fifth of five different tickets rather than one whole ticket. Many have devised systems to beat the lottery just as many bettors in the states have their systems to win on horse races. It is noticed how ever, that the system devisers at Pan anna wear no more prosperous looks than the man who has a system of betting on races at home.
 The lottery caters to the American on the isthmus. It has gotten out a circular in English ex- plaining the workings of the enterprise, and asking them to try their luck. They are invited to be present at the drawing in order that they might be convinced of it's fairness. The lottery says that it does not ask you to buy many tickets, but that it urges you never to let a week pass NllHDul StCuTlHS dl least one llCkeI and in this manner trying your luck
 The lottery is a veritable gold mine to those who own it. Each ordinary brings in S1O,000, one dollar for each ticket issued. The grand prize takes s300O of this, the next nine prizes calling for total of S900, the next ninety for a total of s450, the next $900 for a total of $500, and the eighteen approximations winning a total of S270. They thus pay out S6, ,420 in prizes out of the total of S10,000. Out of the remainder they pay the per cent which goes to the ticket sellers, and the per cent which the Panama government charges for the concession, leaving the next pro- ceeds s2,5SO per drawing, or $134,OOO a year. Out of this they have to pay for the maintenance of a one-man of- flee in Colon, and maintain a force of some five people at the home office here. The net profits are considerably above $1OO,OOO.
 In spite of the fact that only 64 per cent of the receipts from the sale of tickets is given out in prizes, there is ' ct plenty of takers, and by Friday of each week the tickets put on sale the Sunday previous have about all been sold, and sometimes it is very hard