Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-05
LIKE PIONEER CAMPS IN THE
 FORM ONLY
'MescaI" Says That Courtland Booze Is the Limit-Not Up To Old Time Camps In the Killing Line.

'MescaI' contributes to the Tomb, stone Prospector ths following obser. yatiOns on Counland
 Courtland offers tto best induce ments for JOhnsongrass lawyer on the map. and if could manage to snare a revised statute 0f he vintage of '7S. copy Of i'entecOst on fees, a file of the Prospector, which consti tutes an elaborate library in Arizona, | [ would go into basiness with myself right there.
 NOW Codrtland booze would make q man-eater out of a hired girl. yet Courtland has not yet arisen to the dignity of a ''killin'.''
 This fact is attributable doubtless to the joint and true assertion that they have no grave yard, no under taker. and the population has no time in which to attend funeral. ' The Niggertender, formerly the Legal Tender. embraces every feature from a prayer booK 10 a cyclone fac tory; from an ivory statute of George Washington to a second hand coffin; from a saint to a horse thief; from angels of purity whose opal eyes re feet the colors of celestial rainbows to feminine atrocities that could bluff a cavalry charge with their aprons O, she is great
 The town is three miles long and still -a-stretchin'." It is the last chance for every broken down gamb- Ter. every used up tin horn, claim jumper and hobo in the southwest, but ! the old time primitive pioneer condi- tions are truly enjoyable by the man 1 v.lo slept in Fort Misery on Goose Flat on Granite creek or soaked up nlescal in Wickenburg long years ago. These conditions are simply tenn porary and constitute an echo of by gone days.
 Tho fact that tragedy has gone wide of the camp illustrates the decadencc Of the old spirit and demonstrates that il is only Q pioneer community in form. Very soon everything will take on modern form. and school houses and other Improvements will arise from the rocks, born of the protoplasm of progress and the district will cast off every suggestion of the historic past.
 That auto ride is still in my mind, Where we left the jackrabbit 80 far
 behind
 When out in @ grcaswood quarter sec
 tian,
 We were caught ia tbe sand and lost
 our connection"
 And while we proceeded our thirst to
 quench
 The chauffeur applied the monkey
 wrench,
 And just as we swallowed a good old
 gin Gsz
 That dandy old Rec began to whizz.
 At one sleeping Tiace, perhaps the best in the camp. Se had to double up with man. If you never slept with one of your own gender. neyery try it. I'd rather go out and make 9 hobby horse of the ridge pole to keep from freezing to death. First he wheeZes, then he sDeezes. then he snores and then he roars. In this instance it was the "Chaffeur,' and tis remarks in his sleep. cutting the profanity out, were like this:
 "Honk, honk! Reckon we've lost our spark. Give'r the low gear: no, back up and hand'r the intermediate. To she's lost her connection And then he proceeded his fist to
 clench And crawl under the bed With a mon
 key wrench,
 Q, the night was hideous. bed was q rack of torture; We could not stroll forth under the stars: first. for the reason that 1t was cloudy, and second ly, because at the first step we should take we were spt tJ roll a hundred feet amid old cans and barb wire and cast on bedsteads and thousand other things, SO we just roasted it out.
 We did venture f. rth once, when a demOHiac thirst poesessed ne a-f sought the CourtlaDd waterworks which consists of a barrel of alkali water in the rear of the kitchen, but we never found it.
 There is 9 great demand for me chanics and any mar who can hit a naii three times out of five is heeled Tor a carpenter, and any man who can sharpen a paTafine candle with butcher knife can get a job dressing steel.
 CouTtland and the Leadville dis trict possess nndoubted merit. hut they are a bit colgested at present Hundreds of fmpecInioIs adventarer, have eatbered there in the hone ofI snapDing up something. About thirty days from now the situation viii sober up and the cool-aeaded investor wir have fine opportunity to do busi- ness.
 Tbe Copper Queen. the Calumet ( Arizona and the Great Western. all have properties of great merit This IS dem7nstrated by the fact that the1 are all taking up their options and gathering in everything they are able 10 acquire at a reasonable figure.
 MESCAL-