Arizona citizen., 1879-03-21
Tombstone Correspondence.
TOMBSTONE. March 15.


 district come the most cncoursgin!
 reports. The Tombstone company mill Is going ahead rapidly, plenty o
 lumber is on the ground and Superin
 tendent Glrd informs us that he vii
 drop the stamps about April 15, anC
 possibly by the 10th. The mill is on,
 of the most complete ever set up or ! the Pacific coast, It was built bl
 Messrs. Hinckly, Spears and Hayes, o San Francisco, under Mir. Gird's Der sonal supervision. The ore, from tht time il is fed into the rock breaker vii
 be handled entirely by carrlers anC elevators until 1t reaches the amalgam atlng pans. The working drawing: for the 15 stamp mill have been receiv ed and tue grading for It commenced in earnest.
 The quartz road from the mines tC the mills, which is nearly completed IS model one for any country; It i: very direct and entirely avoids all steep grades. It is fraction over eight miles Tn length and will be tray. ersed each way once a day by the quartz teams, hauling water up and quartz down.
 The mines still continue to pan out well and the ore piles at some of them are becoming gigantic. There are over 250 tons of ore on the Toughnul west shaft durnp, that averages $220 to the ton from actual measurement and daily assays. The amount of ore on the other Toughnut dumps and in the mine is astounding, much of it beng much higher in gradeEthan that at the west shaft. The No. 1, cross-cut for instance, tweniy-one feet wide, aver ages $7OO.
 The Lucky Cuss main shaft Is down something over 50 feet; it was sunk vertically, cutting into the vein at 30 feet from the surface and Is still in a fine body of ore The north shaft is turning out some of the finest ore that has been exposed for long time At the west cut on the hill can be seen the ore that makes frequent thousand dollar buttons.
 On the Old Guard, the first north extension of the Lucky Cuss, 4O-foot prospecting shaft $ under way, reveal ing fine vs!d Of from one to three feet in width.
 The Contention nam shaft is down over 90 feet and Superintendent White expects to make connection with the 113 foot level from the south shaft in about ten days.
 \ town-site association has been formed, consisting of Hon. A. P. K. Stafford, Jas. Clark, J. H. Palmer and Hon. T. J. BidweiI, the last named gentleman representing the company here as their agent. The ground for merly located by s. Calhoun and broth CT has been purchased and will be taken up under the tOwnsite Act and patented The tract has been survey ed and laid off in lots; building will be prosecuted vigorously as soon as lumber and other material can be ob- tained. This is natural location for the town, the ground beng level and smooth and easy of access from the mines.
 The boys have been making quite an exodus from camp lately. The Great Tro-AmericaD, convenient psycholOgi- cal auger borer has taken his depart nre carrying with him the hearts of the entire community.
 Two prominent mineralogists who were last seen punching a burro in the direction of the Apache Pass are sup posed to have gone by the most direct route to examine the new gold finds )n AnticOsti Island.
 Mir. A. E. Schieffelin was treated to m overdose of giant powder sometime iince and has been quite unwell from he effects of it; he has gone inside to 
 w. c. Parsons has gone east.
 Jim Miller has gone to San Francis ( 70 and while attending to other busi- less there he will no doubt have the Chinese question settled finally and satisfactorily.
 There is a pathos mingled with the { ,oliteness of some of our visitors which I s touching in the extreme, for in- talce a man rides his horse directly { ,n to the dump, jumps off and scram- i ,les around all over the ore pile, peers a town the shaft and starts in 10 inspect ( he tunnel, about thlS tune the lore ( nan interrupts farther progress and se- S iously inquiries if he has lost any V hing? Parties who are desirOus of a mine should go to the roper person and get permission, and ever show their ignorance of mining [ latters by taking otiense when the T brennan puts ID his preventor. c The rumor that popular German, b -ho owns a good claim, placed b hunk of limburger cheese in his shaft D , keep the boys from examining il a uring his absence cannot be traced to ny reliable source.
 Considerable sickness has been prev $