Arizona citizen., 1879-11-29
Tombstone Items.
Nugget of November. 27:

A The townsite owners, as usual, con tribute lot.
 Tombstone is lying in wait for Ma
 jor Eaton and the other postal agents, and it will give them a terrible rack
 ct for new line.
 George Hughes, of Charlotte, Dixon
 county, Tennessee, but more lately of Bolton, Texas, lost both his eyes by
 the premature explosion of a blast in
 the Wisconsin mine, Hartford District
 on tue 22d.
 A gentleman who has visited the
 Cave Creek (Huachuca) bonanzas says
 the best way to express it is, "one hun
 dred and sixty acres Of solid mineral.
 Eleven bars of bullion had been
 made at tEe Gird mill up to Tuesday
 afternoon last, so far this mouth, and the mill was shut down for two days
 on account of an accident to its water power.
 The Head Centre company have con- menced sinking working shaft and
 will drive ii 10 a depth of 2GU feet forthwith. This shalt will be double one, and we look for machinery and all modern appliances to be added at once.
 John M. Turner and A. T. Jones will establish new station at this end of
 the Cienga.
 The stock of merchandise in Gen. John B. Aliens store has been trans ferred to ". W. Williams, as trustee for the creditors. Mr. Williams has placed the store in charge of Frank MassOletti, for some time book-keeper of the establishment, with orders to sell of the entire stock at actual cost.
 John McDermott is at present at the Contention hoisting works, putting the machinery in order. Lumber is coming rapidly from the saw mills at Chiricahua, and the Contention mill will now be pushed forward without delay It is thought the company will erect another 20 stamp mill. Tully & OchOa's train landed the balance of the machinery few days since and the tmbers are arriving. Millsite for the Head Center mill has been selected and mill contracted for. Men will soon be at work on the ditch, running the water to the Contention mill. Bow CTS has turned out one of the best kilus of brick (70,00O) ever made il the Ter TitOry, which settles the question ss to material for brick in this vicinity.
 Concerning the record question in Tombstone the Nugget Las the follow ing squelcher from Tom Walker:
 ED. NUGGET --I notice in your last issue communication relative to the establishment of district, and rules to govern it; and also for the election of a district recorder for Tombstone. This is the fourth or filth time that the district recorder question has been ag-I itated-ending without interest in Tombstone. The more sensible DOT tiOn of the community and those most deeply interested have each time sig nitied their disapproval, and the mat ter has been dropped But now that it has been once more placed before usI l wish to make statement from my point of view, and ask question or two which my ignorance of certain matters would suggest. Mr. Spicerl says now in Tombstone we have no dis trict; whether he makes this statementi with desire to misrepresent, or from ignorance of facts, do not know. But flstly contradict il, and reply that st v.g I.f erly established according to law, and the boundaries already defined One year ago last April we signed a call ; posted it; organized and adopted rules and regulations. Just as Mir. Pioneer Spicer recommended it to be done to- | day. In the months immediately fol- lowing there were fifty locations made where one is today. Now if miners and prOspectOrs could afford to go to Tucson to have notices recorded at that time when there were no stages and no mails, why cannot they do so today ?l If a district recorder is elected, what bonds does he give? what qualitica lions are required Of him? If a dis trict recorder should fail to properly a notice to the county record CT, 10 whom could the locator look for redress in case of a subsequent notice (prUbably recorded in county records) being placed on his claimf Allowing that there are 900 locations in Tomb stone District, all recorded in the cOun ty records-nOw what law is there to the owners of these locations to record? and further, if these loca- tions are not re-recOrded in district re- cords who will provide the money for a transcript of them from the county records, without which district record would be farce. It is touching in the extreme to observe the sUlicitude with which an attorney at law regards the tax and burden heaped upon the poor miner and prOspector; and most plausible argument that all that keeps the country back is the lack of dis ,rict record. We have got along with out one so far, and our marked pro- gress speaks for .iself, and 1 think that the greater portion of the miners of Tombstone will bear me out in the assertion that a district recorder is un- T. E. WALKER.