Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
FROM FAR AWAY
 WRITES PAPER
Now in Huachucas English man Sends Letter to His Old Home and
 TOwnspeOple
ARIZONA Is PRAISED

disseminated population of the earth The first thing that Peary did when he discovered the North Pole was to rush for the nearest cable office and tell it to the editor of a New York paper T. Roosevelt has improved on this by sending for the editor iu person. The impulse to write a let ter to the editor of the home paper however far from home one may be is the one touch of vanity that makes the world kin.
 John F. Ashworth, keeper of Hotel de Jack, and the Aluldoon of Cochise county, was 'impelled to write letter to his home paper back in England. He did and the letter vas published. The Review has permission to repub fish it. In terms that may be under standable to Englishmen. the letter may be called the Epistle O. e Bac. Upian to the Rossendalians. The let ter and the English Editor comment follows:
 < curious. and really interesting specimen of a letter has reached ,he Times office 1t has come from the WlIds of iar-on Arizona, right away or the border line Of Old Mexico, .lC chuca Mountains. there lives, actual ly Bacupian. l don't know him. he left Bacup before l was born, and yet after forty years of roaming and wan. dering he has a passing interest in the old place and desire to learn O.! what is happening here.
 ] have said that the letter is a cur ious one. We at this office g5t many epistles which it would be charitable to describe as crude, but in spelling and everything else this is a real prize-winner. Nevertheless there is much that is decidedly interesting in it. And l am sure all Rossenda- lans will read it with pieasUrable ap- pre .atiOu. One .1ile the writer pos sesscs ln a marked q -4oa, and that is auacE ot iorc-t.y expressing him. stii. and he certainly does not waste words.
 Here. then, Is t4e letter. "ilh spell ling and other corrections necessary to make it more Teadablo:-
 Dear sir:-It is a long time since you heard from me. l have found tho pace 1 have been looking for. tor forty years. The tax collector can find me ] don't have to pay rent; don't have to buy wood or coal. can go to bed any time l wish. can stay in bed to save my breakfast and go to bed early to save my sup Der. l am out in the mountains in Huachuca, and I think it is the tinesi place ! have found. People never gel sick and never die, and there is not a Christian within 50 miles. No police no guides-and everything goes on just the same.
 They have been mining out here for 40 years, but never got as much as will pay for the powder and don't think they ever will Some of the mountains here are Il 900 1t. high The sun sets at 9 D. m. in winter We get snow, but not very much In the daytime it is not very cold, but at night you have to have lot of bedding. There are bears, a lot oi deer and turkeys in the mountains. There, are only three cut of hundred who can read and write, and am not much better It is a good place to go if you have money, for the l2bour is so cheap. There are 8 lot ot Eng Ushmen out in that country [ am now in Arizona. and l think this IS the best part of the United States People are very good to one another Mining is good round Bisbee- Thai is thirty miles from where l am and ten miles from the Mexican border line.
 Since left Bacup on Oct. Sth 1873 l have been to Honolulu, and l was in Los Angeles (CalJ in the boom i'm ,SS7. l have lost a wife and two children. and ] have gone through Q lot of hardship, but ] have had 4ot of good times. When anyone comes out here they must leave their Eng fish nome. and become as one here. This is no place for cotton weavers. You have to slecr outdoor and tramp 20 miles if you are broke. You must have a lot of "gaIl': what you call ii Ract.p cheek" am keeping C. store and running a hotel ] make my own bed. make my own bread do my own washing, but ! haven ' had lOar5er for Tour months ou' gar i, len cents a pound, flour | Ccl. lars and 70 cents per 100 pounuS cheese 90 cents, bacon 25 cents laI@ 20 cents a b., spuds' i cents lD7 and onions cents per 100 lbs TOT every thing is up. ] pay t' cents Ter 100 Us tor freight co come li miles. must say ! am doing very well. but everybody has chance II YOU drink, don't coms here; 1t VIII cost 15 cents a drink. If you want to drink stay in England; it is cheap CT So goodbye at present. Please send me a copy of your paper anu olliae-Yours truly,
 JOHN F. ASHWORTH,
 Better known in Bacdp
 as Little Banter.
 rd9crert men have different ideas c fife If this former Eacuplau 8lea.es to bury himself in the noun fe.n recesses Of Arizona and hoo-noo 1-ith he indians and Papagoes. MeNi' can. and wanddrina Apaches, tity n,1ef-so he ags-irom tne nearest Christian, he is entitled to do so' ol' give me a bit of civilization. The lux ury of staying in bed save ny trealsfast. and gong 10 |ed early to save my supper are not quite sum, cient inducements to commit soclai suicide. All the same. we are pleas. ed 10 hear from our old hnsman, and 10 have his description of bis adopted