The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-01-16
LOCAL sPLINTERS.

HoN. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL has re- turned again, and will be in attendance upon the opening of the district court.
 THE Custer mine of Idaho produced $911 ,9S1 in the first eleven months of last year, nearly half of which represents profit.
 A ton of first class ore from the Win field mine is said to have worked $264 per ton, at tue Boston mill. This certainly is a good indication.
 2. HON W. Nj. STEWART is home again in Tombstone. He has made this place his headquarters so long and has become so well acquainted with our people that he seems as much at home as any of us.
 MR. BEN Cook is building one of the finest private residences on Sixth street, corner of Stafford, to be found in the city. The parlor has a large bay window facing on Sixth street. The building is of sugar pine rustic of the best quality. It will be decided ornament to the town.
 TwENTY.NINE of the principal mines on the COmstock lode have an incorporated capital of $404, l60O0O, divided into 404l,- 600 shares. They have under their present organizations called for $56, 1894, 200 in as- sessments. At the highest figures ruling in 1881, these mines would have brought $19,27s, 200, and the lowest only s, 5,63O
 PIPE-L,YING by the Tombstone Water company continues as active as ever. A line of service pipe is being laid down Seventh street to Bruce, and will be con. tinued down Bruce to Fourth, as rapidly as possible. The water supply by thls company is so pure that families are hay ing It brought direct into thelr houses, ID order to always have an unlimited supply at aand
 WOODEN sidewalks are a good thing, but like all other good things. they have an end-and this end is just where the trouble comes in. The one on the east side oi Fourth street, for instance, abruptly rising as it does some three inches above the natural ground, is constant menace to pedestrians, especially on a dark night. This little impeachment IS remarkably prolific of sore toes ana profanity. A gently inclined plane would remedy the ditfiulty.
 IT was reported on the streets last even. ing that P. W. Smith & Co. have bonded Robert Upton's newly discovered mine, at the Point of Mount aims for the sum 0t $5O,000, paying $500 down on the bond. MT. H. Solomon leaves for the mine to. morrow. This is said to be, and certainly must De, one of the richest discoveries in the territory. The ore is said to assa, from $40 to $l2OO P. w. Smith is tou old hand at t e inning business to give more for prospect than what the Indica tions justify.
 Ex.GovENoR A. K. P. SAFFoRD arrived by yesterdays coach from Benson, and is guest at Browns hotel. It is reported that Governor Stafford has closed out all his Arizona interests, and will hereafter devote himself exclusively to the develop ment of the gigantic reclamation and col. Onization schemes that he is interested in, in Florida. As governor of this territory he gave some of the best years of his life, and in his new field of enterprise he will carry with him the good wishes of the en- tire people of Arizona.
 A MOVEMENT is in progress to build a foot-bridge to span the arroyo on Feurth street, between Bruce and Fulton. The school house being just beyond this deep wash, those of the children who reside in the western part of the city are compelled to go down and up its steep sides. It is also serious inconvenience to those who live Tn the vicinity, which is fast becoming favorite locality for residences. The city council having voted an appropriation of $25 toward this purpose, the property. holders interested are taking steps to raise the balance necessary. It is believed a substantial foot-bridge can be built for about $75.
 AFTER an explosion occurs, like that which shook Tucson from center to cir. conference last summer, the discovery will be made that the powder house is situated altogether too near the populous part of the town for the public safety, and our city fathers will doubtless exercise commendable alacrity in ordering that high explosives shall be so stored that some good sized hill shall intervene be- tween the powder house and the city, so that the force of the shock nay be broken in case of an explosion. The wisdom that comes from experience generally comes too late. The powder ought to be removed before an explosion takes place.
 MR. PAUL MoRoNEY, the popular land. lord of the Cosmopolitan hotel, Tucson, IS paying Tombstone short visit, and has taken rooms at the Grand. Paul describes the hotel business as booming in the old pueblo. The Cosmopolitan is being great ly enlarged and improved, by the erection of a second story, which will embrace very complete Masonic hall and forty-two additional hotel rooms. The large court ya'd will be metamorphosed into tropical garden, for the irrigation of which an abundant sunnly of water will be fur.