The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-06-10

yer is necessarily done under the Governors address, and 1 call the attention of your readers to the fol. lowing extracts from that address:
 'Therefore, l hereby request that the citizens in the several inning districts throughout the Territory hold meeting on or befoLe June 18th. for the purpose of selecting a suitable person who shall beecom. missiored by the Executive of the Territory. * * The represent. ative appointed to be present at the exposition to take charge of the ex. hibit of the mining district he repre-. sents. The executive will also ap- point one. commissioner whose duty It shall be to secure suitable accommo. dations from the proper authorities controlling the exposition, and to allot to each representative from the territory his proper space, and to generally supervise and report upon the conduct of our representation"
 l recommend all miners, and also would-be letter writers in the dis. trict, to read over the Governors ad- dress and learn what it is that we are called upon to do.
 In regard to the meeting held last Thursday, I wish to say that the call was advertised for two days, and no. tices sent to long list of names. Unfortunately the call escaped edi. torial notice in the EpITApH, and perhaps seme persons were absent from ignorance of the call who would have been glad to take part; but that is not my fault.
 The meeting of the district has been held. It was better attended than l expected, being largely com posed of miners and mine owners; it was harmonious, intelligent and interesting. The citizens present agreed upon representative for Tombstone and listened with atteE- tion to narration of the plans pro- posed and the difficulties to be over- come. The main difficulty is the provision of money to meet the nec- essary expenses. The supervisors were applied to and though very will ling and heartily in favor of having the district and county represented, they were officially notified by the district attorney that the law gives them no right to appropriate county funds for this purpose. Other law yers held the same view. The sug. gestion was made that if the speci. mems collected were given to the county, money might be apprepria- ted to send them to Denver under the provision of law that the super- visors may provide for the proper care of County property. But this IS merely quibble; sending the collection to Denver is not taking necessary care of it, and the warrant of the supervisors could not be paid if it was objected to.
 After carefully considering all these facts, I think it will be agreed that no mode of raising the funds necessary can be found except by a general small subscription. The per. sons especially interested in the ex- hibit are miners, and the owners of unsold and undeyeloped prospects. therefore call upon every resident of Tombstone to contribute five dol lars toward this object. This is not a thing that can be left to large sin. gle subscriptions for the benefit that we expect from the exhibit is gene- ral. It is one in which every shop- keeper, hotel proprietor, saloon own CT, mine owner, and working miner IS directly interested. There must be in Tombstone not less than 1000 persons who are directly interested in seeing the district energetically rep resented at Denver, and l ask every one of them to contribute five dol ars.
 The money is desired at once, and as many men are engaged in the mines, it may be sent to me, or to any one of the following gentlemen: Judge B. L. Peel, Thomas A. Moore, O. A. Thornton, w. H. Wiley, John R. Farrell or Thomas R. Sorin, at Tombstone; and George S. Rice at the Boston Mil. Tine citizens are asked to send in thls money without personal solicitation, which will take time and energy that can better be devoted to the preparation of the exhibit. Very truly yours,
 JOHN A. CHURCH,
 Commissioner for Arizona.