Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-07-24
special Correspondence Of Tnr CITIZEN.

Special Correspondence Of Tnr CITIZEN.
 TOMBSTONE, July 20.-This bran
 new city possesses many points of ln-
 ter-st to the stranger, especially if he
 arrive of . Saturday evening, when
 tue entire population seems to have
 sysrmed into the business thorough
 fares. I fancy that life in Tombstone
 has much less Of ,he fascination of
 excitement now than formerly. IL is
 less of a hazard and a gamble since
 the business of inning here, which
 called the queerly-named town into
 existence, has proven to be permanent
 and profitable, at least to great de
 gree The man who would now seri-
 ously question the wealth of these
 hills wouli generally be regarded 8,
 neers and the earnest gamesters who
 "took the chances" have followed
 many of that class who always come
 in on the home tretch, and who bring i with them white shirts 10 miugle with
 the blue and red, !" bit drinks to ruin
 the profits of the " liquor industry,"
 and the many picayuniSh traits which seem inevitable in older communities. i 10 push aside the greIt-hearted habit,
 ot the irs, -cOmers. Which state of
 affairs IS preferable Is none of news papers concern. Its province is tp
 record, and l believe l am right in saying that Tombs.one's Over-dush
 d ys have mergei into thO-e of more
 solid but less rapid prosperity. If one is astOnishel at the amount of business which is transacted here, he
 is TO less astonished at the number of people who have rushed here to do il. It is query if there Is not business
 man 10 every working miner in the camp. How they all live Is a source of wonder 10 the stranger, and am not certain that it is no. 10 many of ] the traders themselves. Of course, ! some Of the merchants here do a 1 princely business, and the town itself !! IS growing rapidly; but so is the buSi l ness community. On all sides You . see new stores in various stages of ! progress toward completion, and some
 oi tbe buildings are permanent aud
 handsome structures.
 The onIy ones of the larger mines which 1 visited were the Grand Cen tral and the Head Center, respectively at the south and north ends of the famous Contention. The new hoist ing-works ai the Grand Central are working most satisfactorily. The main dou6le-compartmcnt working shaft has jus, reached the third or 30O- foot level, and work was at tLe time of my visit temporarily suspended 10 allow the guides for the cages to b. put in position. This gave Mir. Cdas. Leach, the gentlem6nly foreman, am pie leisure To fully and carefully ex- plaiu and exhibit the workings of the property, and under his intellige.ti conduct l had a splendid peep at the treasures of the mine. The first level has drift nor h to connect with the level of the Contention, l56 feet, and the drift is extended south a distance of 40 feet, and is in fine ore all the way. A winze connects this level at a point 40 feet from CDn- tention ground with drift which was run south from the drift at l5O feet from the surface. Another winze has been sunk from this drift to the 200 foot ievel, and still another winze ha, b zen sunk from the second level 10 the 3OO f"ot level, at point 72 feet north ] of the nam shaft, with which i, will be connected as soon as the lat | Ter is once mrre ready for hosting ( Dn the 2)0 foot level drift was run '@O feet south from the shaft, where a a break was encountered in the vein. At this point a cross-cut will be sent O he west In search of the "back" or vest vein, which shows plainly at the I uriace, and is believed by those best y Iu sllied 10 judge to be the conlinua a ion of the eastern ledge At @ point f OJ feet from the north of the proper d y, another shaft has been started, z trlking the vein 15 feet from the sur. u ace, and the bottom of the shafi is in
 very fair quality of ore. A third U htft was sunk 40 feet, at a point I3O A 'et from the south end of the mine. U nd drift 160 feet nearly due north as produced lurge dump of very k ch ore. Although there have heen si ztracted from the mine some 2.OOO te ms or ore which averages $1OO per 'n, which has III been hoisted out 'r necessary purposes of opening the h. me- while the ore thus far in sight b. the mine is something en ormous, as g Ill be readily understood when it is a'ed that there are at present over or 3oO feet of working, large prnpor cl on or which Is in splendid ore Tue oss-cutting which has been done
 LOWS the vein tp be most satisrlctrilv .. ide. Superintendent E. B Gage af. -. rward told me that he is at present for the erection of 20 amp mili' and as the mine now amp =, warrants such course, the Grand - - sntrai VIII soon be added to the great , n oductIve mines of Tombstone. 'u The H 4Ad Centra or ,,.b;h .r T