Arizona citizen., 1879-04-25
Retrospective.

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 ming 10 wonder what has become os I the rich and marvellous ores of Tomb stone. No bullion has been produced
 and millions should have been shown long agO.-Enterprise.
 People all over the Coast have
 great deal more sense than the writer
 of the above sneering item. Many of
 them know the short history of the
 Tombstone, and those who do not are likely to beware of the bird which
 fouls its own nest, by such jealous in
 situations as the foregoing But we
 may now properly recount the facts in
 connection with the District which
 seems to worry the gastronomic region l of the Territory so continually. ItI was a year ago March 21 last, that Hank Williams discovered the black, iron-capped lodges of the Grand Gen. tral On that day there wasn't hu-' man being in that country except thel two or three prospec;ors at Williams Spring. One or two Mormons' houses and Ohnesorgen's ranch, on the San Pedro were the only habitatioHs nearerI than Tres Alamos, and Camp Huachu-l ' CT. There was no road anywhere. The whole country was an uninhabited waste of mountain and mesa. To-day there are good roads leading into and through the District in different direc- tiOns. Several hundred men of every profession and trade are there, many of them laboring directly upon the mines and mills. The District has been very we'll prospected and vast number of locations have been made, | some of the best of which are suffi- | ciently advanced in development to l supply large quantities of ore. In convenient place one mill is nearing completion; its machinery all on the spot, ready to be put in place in a building made of lumber brought from a saw-mill only thought of six months ago; and it's supply of water ready to be turned on from canal seven miles in length. There is g town of fifty adobe houses about the mill, where less than year ago the traveller laid himself on the ground at night, fireless, for fear of some wan dering Apache. Another mill is on the way, this side of the railroad ter minus, and preparations for its re- ception are pushing on-
 Now, when it Is considered that Tomb stone is fully seventy-five miles from Tucson, the only place where there were any supplies; that all the machin- cry had to be wagoned 375 miles and that every dollar applied to the pur- chase of machinery and supplies had first to be raised in San Francisco and the East by the missionary process, among people to whom the very name of Arizona sounded far-of and myth ical when first heard, it can hardly be supposed that there has been any lack of work on the part of those interest ed in Tombstone. In a certain sense the camps are dull. The settlements of prospecting are over. Many men are in possession of claims which re quire all their time for the assessments. Capital has been literally furnished to test the District, and now all hands expect to stand back and see just what the mills say. There is no doubt that the waiting will pinch some of the boys pretty hard. It is always so un- der circumstances of the kind; but people of any reason do not yet expect to build Rome in a day. They will not forget the immense distances at which we operate, nor the hitherto un- known position in which we stand. There is really no rush of men to this country, as compared with what has been witnessed in the experience off other great mining centers. The thing has been done gradually, and we hope it may continue Co go on so; for in that way, only, can a hundred evils always attendant upon the develop ment of a new mining country be. avoided.