Arizona citizen., 1879-04-25
Tombstone Correspondence.
TOMBSTONE. Anril 10 1s1

time ago, has commenced in earnest. and the town of Tombstone is a set tied fact. The townsite lies just north
 of the Tough Nut and the mines ad-
 joining. It is equally convenient to
 the Empire, Tranquility, Head Center.
 Sulphuret, Contention and Grand Cen.
 tral and all claims in the easterly DOT
 ton of this rich mineral depository.
 Charley Brown the popular restau-
 rant keeper has got his building near
 ly completed and is setting out the
 delicacies to fair number of hungry
 miners. When the mill commences to
 crush quartz, the force of miners will
 largely increase and Charlie will have
 to crush up hash pro rata. John Do
 ling is preparing to build a concrete
 house, where the boys can have their
 lager. cool during the summer. The T. M. and Mining Co. have moved their assay office into the north end of the GOOdenough claim which brings them conveniently close to town. Un- der instructions from the Department, the postoffice will be removed to this
 point as soon as proper accommoda- tions can be arranged. Mr. J. B. AL
 len has a large number of adoLes on. the ground and proposes to build quite an extensive establishment. The butch CT, the baker, the barber and shoe maker and other industrious citizens are preparing to move in, and the beautiful mesa selected for the town will soon be transformed into a bee hive of enterprise. energy and indus try.
 The mines never looked better, and any person who can discriminate be- tween an ore pile and waste dump can satisfy himself that it will requireI very extensive reduction works and a long time to work up the ore already stacked up on the surface. The Tough Nut at present has three gangs of. miners at work, as follows: One at the big crosscut, one at the west shaft, and one at the south shaft. At the the operations are more like. those of 8 quarry than of a mine Great boulders and masses of ore have been qua-ried oGt for a distance of, about forty feet, commencing at the gulch and cutting into the hill in a southerly direction. The body of oTel at this crosscut equals if it does not exceed anything of the kind ever opened on this coast. The ore is di-. vided into three classes. No ore as saying less than five hundred dollars is placed on the first-class dump and none assaying less than two hundred on the second class. At present these classes are governed somewhat by the of lead they carry. As| the mill will start before the roaster isl all the freest milling ore will be selected and worked first, with out roasting. At the west shaft no change has been made. The. already enormous ore. e.pile increases daily. and the grade remains high and uniform. At the old south shaft a drift has been started west which is literally big thing. The drift isl eight feet wide, all in ore which isl filled with small deposits of malleable silver. This is the same cfHsS of orei that yielded a twenty-seven thousand dollar assay last summer. The pres snt assays range in the neighborhoOd of nine thousand dollars. The new
 incline at the south shaft is down some -Eing over ninety feet, having ore on
 he hanging wall most of the way lown and a fine vien in the bottom. The Lucky Cuss main shaft is down ninety odd feet. At seventy-fve feet, ! neat incline was turned to follow
 he foot wall of the vein. Plenty of fine ore is in sight and this bonanza occnpies whole front rank. The Eagle, Sunset, Omega, Grand Dipper, Old Guard, Wedge and other claims have extra fine ore on exhibition.
 Operations at the mill-site are being pushed forward as rapidly as possibleI and the time between Us and bullion
 is growing small and beautifully less.
 Several quite interesting relics have been discovered in this vicinity lately, among them a stone hammer, found by Ed. Scheiffelin: the barrel of an old Spanish blunderbuss, found by the Per ,v Bros. and Steve Stone; also, a spur of enormous size found while eXcayating. 1n the new fifteen-stamp mill-site, Is now in the possession of Col. Buffum. A No. IL Government shoe was found between here and the Mule Pass. It had the letters VI. T. B." in hob-nails on the sole. Somebody said it belong ,d to an assayer in Tucson, but we lOn't know.
 Jim Miller has returned from San Francisco. He says he saw the ele- ,bant and Madame Rentz's female ninstrels. He brings back many pleasant recollections of his trip, and pain in his chest.
 About two weeks ago your cores ,ondent received an anonymous letter rom a person who signed himself Critic" He should have signed him .o1r q. Smart Alex" He gave some