Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-18
OATMAN TAXES THINGS EASY AS MONEY
 GROWS
Various Stocks Purchased at Bot tom Prices Have Made Big Gains for Investors in the Dis triCt.
NEW ISSUES MEETING
 WITH READY SALES
Monthly Output of Gold Bullion From the Several Properties Has Reached a Total of S165, GOO.
lBy William P. De Woln

OATMAN, July 17-Once upon a
 time an Ancient, with a philosophical twist to his mind, volunteered the
 statement that discomforts as well as
 comforts are comparative. Accepting
 his statement at its face value. one arrives logically at the conclusion that there is one place hotter than the des- ert at this season of the year. To speculate further on matters caIoric would be as futile as an attempt to picture the beauty of the cactus bloom or describe the silent grandeur of the desert night Therefore. we who are sojournins on the desert at the present time gain what solace we can from the philosophy of the An cient and thank our lucky stars we are not. as yet, at least. residents of that hotter locality
 The late William Deyere. poet and journalist, arrived in the mining camp of Leadyille one cold winters day in 1878, wearing a plug hat and a linen duster and packing the customary armament When he had thawed suf- ficiently under the genial stimulus of hot whisky to talk inteligently, he youchsated the information that he. was hunting with malice aforethought for the author of Beautiful Snow" The author Of In the Good old Sum- mer Time, would probably be less safe here just now than was the quarry sought by "Bm' Devere.
 Draw A Cold One.
 Next to mines and mine acreages, the commodity most in popular de- mand here is a cool drink with a straw in it. You can buy a drink with a straw, but not with a stick" in it. Aridity is not accepted by the commit nifty legally dry" as an excuse for in- duigence in strong ana reDeuious Ha- uor Hence the Demon Rum has been thrown into the discard along with the roulette wheel, poked chips and the other symbols of our degenerate days, we are leading the simple life. sustained by milk shakes and diverted by an occasional game of Hearts. True, We have more money to spend now for the substantials of life than during the rollicking period when John Barleycorn levied a heavy toll among us, and this money is being spent for the development of our mines.
 After George Long and James Me lyer had figured out the northwest trend of the Tom Reeds rich vein system and had incorporated the Un- lted Eastern Minine company, they asked the people of the Tom Reed Gold Road Mining District to aid them financially in proving their contention. The latter responded by purchasing 100000 shares of United Eastern at 20 cents per share The investment is the most profitable many of them ever made, as there is at this writing approximately $2,OOOOOO worth of ore opened in the United Eastern mine and the stock is selling at from S1.75 to S2.00 per share
 Where The Money Goes
 Within the last six or seven months approximately $lO0OO0 have been in- vested in the stocks of local mining by the people hereabouts.
 do not mean to convey the impress. lon that in solution this generous sum of gold and silver would have been absorbed by the systems of the bibu- ous had our prohibition friends not turned off the tap on strong drink; neither is 1t the intention Co convey he impression that m its entirety L was local money Eighty percent ,f 1t at least was, however, Moiaye County money, and generous DOT ion of that eighty percent was in-
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