Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-11
TOMBSTONE TOPICS.
< Visit to the Bradshaw Mine and the Prospects iH That NeighboThOod - The Mining Developments About Tombstone, Eic., Etc.
TOMBSTONE, September 3.

TOMBSTONE, September 3.
 Time has slipped away from me s
 fast this week that only this morrin
 the fact dawned upon me that Saturda
 had arrived and my work not half con
 pleted, and among other thing my week ! ly contribution to the CITIZEN was yc
 uuvrittea history
 On Thursday last with most coageria
 company visited the Bradshaw min,
 near Charleston, and was the recipien
 of the most polite attention from Ml Terney, the superintendent, and 5Il i O'Brien, the foreman. The old Com
 stock has supplied many miners anl
 mining men to this district, but tn
 Bradshaw was quite revela5icn-ther
 were SD many old Virginia faces to b
 seen. Just now work is going on with
 vim there, and ere long the musical roa
 oi the stamps may be heard. Grading
 is nearly completed for the erection of
 ten-stamp mill, to stand little to th,
 east or the hoisting works. At presen
 the timbers are lying a, Benson and vii be received in a few days A large tam
 has just been completed Ut the bottom
 of the shaft at the third station for hold
 ing all the water before hoisting, an,
 keep the shaft dry while sinking. 1
 man cage with safety catches is bein.
 built and will be ready for use in few days. The pumps are ordered and en
 terprise and business is visible on al sides. At present, the foreman inform! me, they are hoisting about twelve hun
 dred gallons of water day. not as muci as they can do, but enough to prevent annoyance while the men are at work
 At the bottom of the third station they arc running four drifts and are in iron 40 to l6O feet. The ore chute contain. about l55 tons of ore at present Sverar ing about so per ton.
 In few weeks l expect tO see every thing at the Bradshaw booming and tht first mine in the district running mil with the water pumped from their owI shaft. Until the 1st instant they have been working three shifts, but Thursday ten-hour shifts were put on and they now employ about twenty-five men i1 and about the mine, and some sixteen engaged in the work of grading and preparing for the mill.
 THE ALRAY,
 Joining the Bradshaw, is -.iy.,a -. " IIra6le Tt ,ISi location, aud is owned in the ior ri r.ii,.IIbt.ti iS1ids been going on there ..SG5| some time, with most favorable re- suits, but about a week or ten days ago word was received to close down, and no explanation given. It is hoped the sus- pension of work will only be temporary, as the property is looking so well 'tis a pity to stop now, as a little more work might result most satisfactorily. There seems too great a tendency on the part of mine owners in this district to timid- ity. BOnanzas cannot be discovered six feet under ground. and people should not expect 1t; but that they do Is a fact not to be disputed, and one that must be overcome before properties can and viii be worked with any show of success. Many a good property lies about here whose owners have not the confidence to work them, and l am convinced that were they developed a little, and with good judgment, they would pay and lend a new impetus to mining in our midst. The idea seems to be that prop critics should be worked just enough to show up something, and then turn them off on some stranger. and let him do the developments; but the high figures at which prospects are held deter many wOuld-be buyers, as the cost price Is such that nothing Is left for working the property when once acquired. This com plaint Is made by many strangers, and our owners of prospects should exercise some little judgment, and not look upon as fools ready to snap at any thing, or robbers who come to deprive the industrious @ prospectOr of his hard earned property.
 lTOmbstone is a good mining district, and of great promise, but there are se- riOus drawbacks tO investing capital here which time and diplomacy alone will cure, and the sooner property hold CTS come to their senses the sooner they will have cause to be thankful.
 BUNKER HILL COLD t SILVER MINING co.
 In one of my first letters this property was noticed and each of the mines spoken of in detail. There are six prop critics, formerly owned here, but now in- corporated under the above title. The double compartment wOrking-shaft is now down about S5 feet and being pushed rapidly ahead, and croSs-cutting will soon commence. The stringers and feeders coming into the shaft are of high grade, and indications are most favor able. Mir. Fowler, the Superintendent and old mining man, feels much encOGr- aged and thinks Le IS now in close prox- imity to a large body of valuable ore.
 The Tombstone FavOrits Mining Com pany adioins the Bunker Hill, and Is a recent incorporation undcr the laws of principal business office To- cdted at Kansas City and most of the stock being owned there. The property is being worked, and the shaft k now down about 30 feet. The ledge is widen ing as they go down. and looks very well. The ore is high-grade, and carries quantity of horn silver of good quality. Altogether the property looks very promising.
 The Hardscrabble has within the past few days made a strike, and the owners are jubilant. This property joins the Gentle Belle on the north, and Is To- CnAth afNbAAA tNb AAAAAfN rAfAAAA hA NNh ll This shaft is now down about 2S feet with ledge 20 inches wide and increas- ing as they 20 down. Ihc rock carries horn silver of high grade, and if the goes on increasing as they sink, that locality may look for further work lngs on the properties owned there abouts. IL is encouraging to find prop critics outside the bonanzas paying for the expended.
 Gossip is SO scarce that Dame Grundy must have left the town in disgusl Some considerable talk is indulged in about the whipping given that Mexican boy at the Huachucas few days since, and two of our attorneys have been at Charleston the past two days attending the trial of the men ordering the whip ping. IL is contendcd the boy died, but so far the corpus delicti has not been proved.
 What has become of my CITIZEN? T have only received one copy for a week Does the fault lie in the postoflice de partment, or the CITIZEN office Iwcn- Ger was my last letter received I have not seen 1t so far, and so am in the dark as to its whereabouts.
 More anon, and hope to have some gossip to relate that will be interesting.
 PEAXITELEs.
 AN up-country subscriber, on hearing of the outbreak of the Apaches, adds to the bottom of q private letter the sug- yestive expression: To. the pure In- dian" This is text that some of the eastern philanthropists who believe in 'attening the red devils at the expense of the government, that they may enter upon the slaughter Of white settlers better prepared to endure a long and bloody struggle, would do well to ponder over. Of course the treachery of the scouts in the employ of the gov ernment, in turning upon the troops and shooting them down without warning. must be attributed to their having re- ,eived a short issue of rations at some