Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1879-09-12
Tombstone Items.

Affairs at Tombstone continue to
boom.
The Tombstone Mill keeps pound.
ing away on Tough Nut ore, turning out
bar day on the average. The mill
shut down one day ;Ast week, the 4th,
for the regular cleaning up and over
hauling.
The grading at the Corbin Mill Is
completed and the stone walls built at
the back. Carpenters are busy fran.
ing the timbers and the battery blocks
are ready.
Ham Lights teams, which are
marked Arizona transportation Com.
pany, haul loads from the Tough Nut
every second day. Last Monday one
team hauled 10000 pounds and the
other 10000 pounds of ore. The aver.
age is about thirteen tons a day.
At the Contention mill-site several
houses are going up and quite a set.
tlement is certain to be in the vicinity
soon. This mill is about tw 1--we mile.
down the San Pedro from the other
mills and is about seven miles below
the mouth of the Babacomari. Super.
intendcrt White expects to have the
grading finished in about a week or
ten days more. The machinery for
the mill is now pom the cars and will
be ut the end of the railroad before
long. Oscar Buckalew has the con-
tract for hauling the mill to Tomb
stone and G. II. Light the ore contract
At the mines everything IS lively.
About sixty men are employed on the
Tough Nut, working day and night,
and are taking out large quantities of
ore. \ great deal of work is being
done and has been done lately on this
mine, and it never looked better The
main working shaft is down eighty
feet and the new hosting works are
being put in place. When these are
running it IS the intention to take some
of the men from the west and main
shafts to work further along the vein,
which crops TO the westward of the
shafts. The new cut up the gulch
near the Goodenough ground has dis
closed large body of high grade ore.
On the Contention the hoiStingI
works are running night and day. A
Wine is being sunk and the main shaft
made deeper. When the mill is com
pleted many more men will doubtless
be worked upon this great mine.
George Reynolds has a force of men
sinking the main shaft which is al
double one, eight by five feet in the
clear, on the Grand Central. The
shaft is down forty-five feet in as finei
a chute of ore as is seen in the dis
trict. The whole bottom of the sh; : /,
which is about ore hundred feet south
of the Contention line, is in high grade
ore of reddish color.
The shaft on the Naumkeag, the ad
joining claim to the west is also in,
rich ore.
w. c. Parsons has men at work on
the Sulphuret, Cincinnati and Tough
Nut extensions, with excellent pros.
poets on each.
A force of nen is also doing good
work on the Head Center and Yellow
Jacket for Mr.. Parrish, who has a.
bond on these claims.
About twenty-five men are employed
at the Lucky Cuss, and it is intended
to increase this number soon for the
purpose Of taking out ore from the
bodies which have been cut during the
progress of the woIa. 4 new opening
in this mine, in the direction of the
Wedge claim, is full of very rich ore.
The town of Tombstone is busy,
rapidly growing place. Buildings are
going up in every direction and specu-
lation in town lots is active.
1t is held now by the parties best
qualified to Judge that the Contention
and Tough Nut lodges are the same,
and this greatly adds to the value of
the intervening claims. There is con-
siderable interest felt in Tombstone
over the new discoveries on the east
sloDe of the Huachucas.