Weekly journal-miner., 1916-02-16
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 Motley Crowd.

 men who work for living and few persons, both men and women, well dressed and good looking, apparently from the better stratum of society, whom no one, but even the seasoned officers, would suspect as being ad- dicted to the habit, make the trip every day. Some go in the morning, more in the afternoon. Few care to go over at night. They are afraid of be- ing robbed or killed in the dark Agua Prieta thoroughfares.
 Ii is supposed that few hends on this side are succeeding in smuggling some of the dope over occasionally, but customs officers are hot on their trail, it is getting to be a risky busi- ness, and that is what makes patron age so brisk over at the Agua Prieta joint. The proprietor of the latter is said to be paying license of $l00 or Sl50 a month. His profits are be- lieved to be large.
 "In Ways That Are Value"
 What he pays for the drug or how he gets it is not known. It is sup posed to come from Guaymas. Chi nese there are said to have buried a quantity for safe keeping during the late revolutionary disturbances. It IS reported that shipment from China is due there soon. Patrons of the re- sort buy it on strips of cardboard.
 The price is four ions for 50 cents or eight for S1. Ten ions make F pills, or smokes, for the average use- There are 460 ions in a tin of opium. Smoking for pleasure" if man is not much addicted to the habit, he will burn up two or three pills. \ constant user will smoke ten or twelve pills when he is breaking off the habit" Opium hends will consume 5 to 70 pills. If they have the money this means they will spend s or & in an afternoon.
 But they all do not have the money. This explains why number of the suffering fiends go over every day in the hope of "bumming" few smokes from some other fiend. It takes al opulent smoker, however to be so generous. though If he happens to be flush he will let the other fellow cook the pills for him in exchange fo- d few smokes and even pay him in addi- ton. The tendency is to be generous. Every smoker knows he Is likely to be down and out some day.
 Proceeds $50 a Day.
 In addition to the patrons from Douglas, many of the Agua Prieta Chinamen smoke opium in the placc The gross proceeds are fully $60 a day. Mexicans, however. are barred That seems to he the agreement with the Agua Prieta authorities It is even said that the police have beel used to keep Mexicans out of the place.
 Though they seem to be under pro lection, the Chinamen allow no one 70 enter as a rule unless they know him. Turning off the main street leading into the town, one walks t0 he left and opens a green doo- on the near side of the house filled with babbling Chinese. The door opens into a corridor running northward in 70 a back yard Turning east and then south again, the frequenter of the place finally steps down into a cellar unlighteI save for the dim glow oi Inc opium burners.
 What the Dive Looks Like.
 The place is small-barely Is feel square. There are four rude bunk: covered with blankets besides fifth which the Chinese generally reserve for their own use. In corner is { counter latticed off from the rest o the room. Behind it a Chi1ama- stands and sells the dope like a gir It moving picture theatre selling tickets. Patrons say that at times tho little dive is so crowded that whit, men and women have been obliged tC stand and wait until Chinese smok CTS finished using the hunks.
 The price of the opium includes th' ':sc of a pipe, bowl. lamp, yen hook yc:,-shce gow and a suey pow cloth which are all that. are needed io cooking the pill and smoking it.
 NEW MINING CAMP