BACON $10,000 PER POUND
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

ericans; that they did not intend to suffer Americans at the ferry ; that they want to fight with the Americans. These Indians have since pursued two Americans, who are now at Los Angeles, after having succeeded in robbing them of everything they had. BACON $10,000 PER POUND A Tombstone correspondent of the Globe Democrat says: Bacon at $10,000 per pound is rather an expensive luxury, but I paid that price for four pounds once. It was ten years ago that I purchased a strip of land near So- nora, Mexico. It was a good mining property, and I saw a fortune for the near future. I had $8,000 to start with. For 18 months I worked, and after drilling 1600 feet through hard rock struck an arsenical lode of silver. There was not less than $40,000 in sight. To celebrate the find I determined to treat myself to some bacon, of which I am very fond. There is no such thing as Mexican bacon, you know. The duty in Mexico on pork is 70 per cent. Across the line at Ocha- ville, Arizona, I could get bacon at 20 cents per ( 48 )