Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23

Not only in the Grand Central, but in all connecting mines, including the Contention and Sulphuret, showing be- yoDd doubt that the water was Tn d ba- sin, or reservoir, and when once removed could be easily kept down. This fact having besn ascertained, the Content ion company resolved to put ID A DOUBLE LINE OF TWELVE INCH COR
 SIsH PUMPS, THE FIRST IN ARIZONA.
 Tine contract for the pumps has been let to The RisdOn Iron works, San Fran CISCO. aud will be put in by Hank ThOm- son who has just completed putting in a similar set at the Eureka Consolidated in Nevada. Work has already been com menced on the pump compartment, on the south side of the main laft of the Contention mine. This compartment will be 7-lOx6-4 and is being raised from a depsh of 63i fe-t to the surface and IS now lap 90 feet. It is believed that the pump compartment can be completed and the pumps put in place ready to be- gin opperatiOu about the first of NOven- Der next. This work will nacessitate an expenditure of from SlJG.0J3tO S2J1,09G. | In order to remove SD large an amount of water this extraordinary ex-ense, its Dot likely the Contention will pay any dividends for the next few months. It IS believed that thls great mine, which has already yielded in bullion,
 OVER FIVE MILLION OF DOLLARS Is Out just fairly prospected. That there are good reasOnr for this belief 1t Is only necessary to state, that recently, in running a winze from the G0O-fOot level down tO water level, ore WAS cut 22 feet east of shaft and Ii feet west of shaft making thirty-slX rect of solid ore o' superior quality. which when We take into consideration the fact that the Contention Is a true Assure vein, the value of sucI body Of ore cannot help but prove valuable. There can be no ioub- of the ability of the Grand Cen tral and Contention pumps to lift all the water from the mines, and keep them aud the connecting mines free for working purposes. THE FLORA MORRISON HOSTING WORKS
 ARE BEING TORN DOWN
 And moved to the main shalt fl the Contention mine for moving pumps. This will be in addition to the main pumping engine. Having told you what the great mines m this camp are going to do, will now say something of what has been done.
 THE BULLION PRODUCERS.
 The principal bullion producing mines of Tombstone are ten m number; toe CoateutlOn takes the lead, and has yielded over Sj. .Og0,O00: next comes the Tombstone Company with $4,u000OO; the Grand Central, 8, ,700,0OO; Vizina, estimated, S6j0OJO; Head Center, S500,- GOO; St uewall, S3OO,O1O; Bob Ingersoll, S250,ClG; Way Up, SS1,OO0, Traquility, S6O.Oel, making a total of Sl3,6lO,O00. There are many other mines m Tomb stone which have produced from one to twenty thousand dollars each. so that at this date the total yield cannot fall much, if any short of Si4,OOO,G0O
 DIVIDENDS PAID.
 The Contention mine has paid in dividends $2,5j0,000. The Tomstone II. and N. O., Sl,00O,00); Grand Cen tral, Sl,2j0,000; Nizina, $lin,000; Head Center, about Sl00.O00. and the remain ing i've estimated, Sl00,01O: making the total S5,l40,0OU. Owing to the prepara- tions now going on to remove the water from the mines, the livideds will be light for the next few months, but the means with winch tO pay for the pumps and for raising compartments for pumps wall be paid for with bullion taken from the mines as the improve 1snts are made.
 STILL STRIKING ORE.
 Since arriving ID Tombstone | have been informed that ore continues to be struck in outside properties, and that scarcely week goes by that some one does not make a new find, and while they are not developing into great 1 mines, they greatly benefit the camp, | as the ore is taken out by miners who ! usually own the mines and it IS reduced l here, and most of it al once goes into l circulation. Such mines are of vastly ] more benefit to a mining camp ia pro portion to their value than the large | mines. as greater ratio of the product | remains in the country.
 NEW IMPROVEMENTS.
 Since the announcement that the great ! mInes were to be worked below the 1 water level the people Of Tombstone | have taken pew courage, and that DOT | tiOn of the burnt district lying on Third | street between Allen and Fremont is being rapidly built up. Two months | more will see the town fully restored to l where 1t wa previous to the last great | fire. There k nothing gorgeous or eX- 1 pensIve about tbe new buildings, but | they are sGbstaatial, and. would you be- ] lieve if. they are all being built of | "dohys" There has been great | change ID the ideas of the average l Iuubstoner. Formerly they did not | believe iu "dobys,' and when some of | the more enthusiastic thought there | would be DO limit to the greatness of thelr town, they poked much fun at the ancient doby town on the banks of the Santa Cruz; but after two destruc- tive fires. and four years of high iusur- ance, they have concluded that after all l there IS virtue iu the mud bricks, and | they are now as popular here as they are iu Tucson.
 NEW HNTERPRIsE
 Tine new bath house built by A. ]. Mitchell and others at a cost of several thousand dollars. Is perhaps the finest thing of the kind on the Pacific coast, and something that cannot fail to be ap prcciatel by the people of Tombstone. it k but a few blocks from Jbe center of ths town on the north side. The build Iag ls Su by l25 feet ID size, and is built on the side of the nil, winch affords the most perfec: system of letting in and drawing of of the water, winch if fur pished by the Huachuca Water com pany. On the inside of the building is constructed an immense reservoir or bath, as 1t IS called, no by G0 feet in size This bath Is about three feet deep at the upper end and descends tthe bot tom ou an incline of forty feet. at the rate of about one foot m ten. At this pUint the bolt n drops down six feet and extends on Co the lower end a dis- tance or twenty feet further. making a grand plunge bath 70 hy 30 feet and ii feet deep. It will thus be seen from the formation of the bath that there IS both shallow and deep water, SO that those who cannot swim can occupy the shallow water at the eupper end, while those more advanced iu the art, can take plunge into the deep water below. There are sixteen dressing rooms-elght on each side. wlth good board floor ten feet wide all around the reservoir, and place where refreshments and mild drinks may be had at the bar neatly fitted up at the upper end. The reser- voIr IS built of solid masonry and over laid with cement with an escape at the bottom of the plunge bath at the lower