Arizona citizen., 1880-04-10
TOMBSTONE.
Interesting Mining Items-Notes on
 Building, &c., &c.
TOMBSTONE, April 2, 1880.

EDITOR CITIZEN Every thing about our camp denotes activity; there are very few men without employment, new and substantial buildings are be- ing constructed, older ones remodeled and improved, giving our streets al solid and business like appearance, and masons, carpenters and freighters are all making full time The mer chants are as busy and smiling as ever, and watching the advance of the rail road, and as soon as it reaches the San Pedro VII rhe ready to lay in heavy stock of goods, and with the railroad at our doorstep(?) twenty-eight miles away, we shall have as complete lines of goods as ill the ancient city of Tue son or San Francisco. MT. J. H Strudinger has just completed a sur vey and profile of the pipe line for the Sycamore Spring Water Company, and we understand the work is to begin al once, and we shall soon be able to hang up the "moss covered bucket" and dismissing our dear water cart with grateful feelings for Its past use fulness, take off our hats to nickel plated faucets and water tax collectors.
 Charleston was up in arms (gnnI club and alp one evening last week over a shooting scrape, arising out of dispute over a dollar game of freeze out" but as soon as it was learned the murderer had escaped peace was re- stored and the city quickly assumed its normal quiet(?) aspect. The vic tim lived about twenty-fours. The in quest decided that he died from the effects of gunshot wound, the gun fired by August Lehman; victims name unknown.
 The mines are showing up well. The Tombstone Company has recently increased its working force on the Tough Nut, and consequently are greatly increasing their daily output, bringing up to daylight very rich ore from the immense bodies below which it will take years of labors to exhaust. The mills of the Company on the San Pedro, keep up their ceaseless grind twenty-four hours per day, without break or delay, turning out two bars daily of bullion over 750 fine and working the ore up to S6 per cent of its assay value, which certainly must be very satisfactory to its owners and the fortunate stockholders.
 The recent rich strike on the Good Enough, the parallel claim to the Tough Nut, and also the property of the Tombstone Mill and Mining Con- pany, IS of the greatest importance not alone to the holders of their stock but to the district generally. They are sinking shaft six by nine feet having reached depth of ten feet the shaft is all Tn solid ore, with ore on all sides and very rich. The No. 5 drift running towards the Good Enough shaft is within sixty feet of it, in rich ore of the same character and without doubt is the same body of ore as the shaft is being sunk on.
 The extensive hOisting works of the Empire Company are rapidly being erected and the smOke-stack is the tallest monument" yet. Work on their new shaft IS being pushed as fast as possible.
 The Contention mine is sending large quantities of ore to their new mill, and the shipments of bullion from there tell their story.
 The Sunseiers are all happy over the rich development of their mine as their perennial enthusiasm indi- catcs. Without encroaching further on your valuable space will append my sig, HUSTLE.