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Show GAMBLING PROFITS ARE BIG. Man Who Controls tSame In a Mexl. can State Makes $2,000,000 a Year. Did you ever hear of tho man who broko tho bank nt Camanea?" Possibly not. ns tho Camanea gam-ling gam-ling resort has not attained tho famo and prestlgo which Is given to Monte Carlo. Tho bank Is thcro and It equals If It docs not exceed Its better known rival In the domain of tho prlnro of Monaco. Frank I Proctor Is the ruler of this gambling territory. In extent it is far greater than tho territory of the prince. It occupies an entlro otato In Mexico. Frank Proctor has absolute sway over tho stato of So-noro. So-noro. Tho government of Mexico has given him a long terra leaso on tho gambling privileges. Camanea Is tho richest and largest mining camp In Mexico. It Is tho center of Proctor's gambling principality. princi-pality. Not many years ago, Proctor, now prlnco of Camanea, was a cowboy cow-boy In Arizona, not extremely well Dxed In this world's goods. Not many years ago W. C. Green married a daughter of Proctor and afterward mnnaged to attract somo eastern capital to mining schemes ho hnd on foot In Sonora. To-dny ho owns a $30,000,000 copper mlno. Through Green, Proctor was provided with tho gambling prlvilego In tho state. The concession gives him tho lncomo of a multl-milllonalro. Over tho gambling tables at Camanea Cama-nea It Is said that $20,000 passes ovory night. Somo dnys tho total amount has run up to $200,000. It requires COO men to operato tho tables, and a profit of $2,000,000 a year Is derived from that place alone. Not only does Proctor control tho gambling of Camanea, but also that of Hcrmoslllo, Quaymas and Alamos. When It Is understood that the population popu-lation of Sonora would rather gamblo than cat It moy bo appreciated appreciat-ed what an enormous sum passes into Proctor's hands annunlly. |