Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-16
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 Frszer River to MuIeje.
 Special Correspondence Of the CITIZEN.
 TOMBSTONE, June 9th. Tombstone after four years. Yes it IS fcur years since the CIr1zES correspondent, iu company with B. F
 Mcdonald. of N,w York; John R. Far relI then of Tucson but nov of Tomb stone. and Solon M. Aliis, leading civil engineer or Tucson, visited Tomb stone Then Richmond was a healthy rival of Tombstone, and even that rivalry did not emOunt 60 much. There WAS but one house in Tombstone, one store. that of John 5. Allen on Allen street. Inc Gird mil was in process of ] building, and the mines of Tombstone were little more than prospects. The | Contention, of all the mines ID Tomb stone, was the only on e that had been sufficiently developed to lay elaim to a showing for a mine, and that develop ment more than anything else, gave Tombstone her first boost. True there had been a large deposit of ore cut in the Toughnut. but it was of such shape | that it's value could not be determined, ! nor its extent or course defined. The | development ID the Grand Central was | a ten-fOot hole, showing a ledge and | considerable ore, but nothing that war ranted its permanency. l well remem- | Der how. on that occasion Brown, of Brown hoiel' Ca teni,)
 TEIrp TO SELL THE VIENNA TO Us FOR SLIGO
 | For the owners on the showing in | eleveu-lJOt hole which had 8 lump of | orc ln the tom Ot II about the size of gallon jug, and which had tue ap- pearance of having been deposited there | by some unknown person, but which upon investigation We found to be n natures place. Now 1 don't know, but l have always thought Brown would have jumped at a thousand dollars, and he will perhaps never know how near We came to offering him that amount for 1T, nor how often we have regretted since that We didn't offer II. But We wanted 10 dig the boulder out, and Brown did net wanted 1t dug out; we thought that II was all the ore there was ID 1t, and 1 think Brown thought 30 too. The Nizina was sold for S30,OOO year afterwards, and there has since been over S6C0,0OO taken out of the mine.
 BUT WHAT CHANGE FOUR YEARS
 HAVE BROUGHT.
 A live ling well built city of 1000 inhabitants has sprung up here, not withstanding the Gilded Age claim, the V.zina clam, and the Clark claim were spread over each other, making three acres O: ground where the Almighty had prepared q foundation for but one. The lie hend twice swept the sOWn from the face uf the earth, thinking per hapr, that those beiigerent fellows would come tu some umicable under standing and give the devil his due, but to thIs day some of the lItigants are Tn the 'old boys" debt, and the quarrel stlll goes on. IJmbs one Is not so largr, does not cover so much ground as 1 ex- pected IL would, but
 THE BUILDINGS ARE MUCH BETTER
 Than I looked for. There are three solid blocks of business houses between Third and Sixth streets Ou Allen street. besides a number of fine edifices on Fremont street, V, ich include Scbi5tfelin hall, the City hall, the Epitaph building. and a number of other business houses which are well stocked with goods. The streets are wide, the sidewalks good, and the business houses on an average better than those of any other town in Arizona.
 EVERY BRANCH OF BusISEss Is represented in Tombstone. You can buy anything here, from iews-narp up tO a piano, frum cotton cloth 10 the finest silks from a pony glhss tO bar rel of whisky, or from e claW-hammer to a quartz mill. The incest groceries for your family or very ordinary goods with which Co pay off Mexican "doby mak- CTS = beautiful filigree gold combs for your sweetheart, or G common horn one for yodr sister. Nothing IS too good for the Tombstone market there IS nOth- ing they will not buy fl they want it, un- less 1t ;s cheek. Yet there is little of this 'mmOdIty here and none whatever to spare-nOt even among the treble 1 acre men but l wonder-"Yes dO." There are gambling houses Tn Tomb ! stone, saloons and plenty of good board ing houses, two good hotels, two banks, l and any number ot places where fel- l low can drop m, aud, as tine auctioneer would say If Es was going to sell out the town. many other places too numerous to mention" In fact there Is nothing that an old timer needs that he cannot buy in Tombstone, except "iost oppOr- tunities.'
 After sitting in one Of Harry Queens comfortable chairs on the sidewalk in front of his business house, which can only be measured by ones capacity, 1t seems to mo THERE ARE MORE vIRGINIASs IN TOME
 STONE THAN IN VIRGINIA CITY. More forty-niners than in any town in California. There is no mining camp from Plnceryille to White Pine, nor from Frazer river to Muleie they have not visited. l think l can learn more about California, Nevada, Idaho, Utah and Montana by sojourn of a single week ID Tombstone than l could by two years tour through the Pacific States and Territories. IL is not reoes- sary Co so to Virginia City to learn how MRS. JAMES FAIR WORKED AT THE WASH.
 TUB To earn bread for Jim and Jim, jr., long years ago: or how Bill sharon run an express office, and before his sagacity was determined by his employers Low Le run the line also; and then how all T mean these old-timers n Tombstone have been rich or have escaped being rich. Some of the stories told were simply marvellous. and II I did not, of my own knowledge, know something about the size of grizzly bear or the highth oi the big trees. l should not have been SO ready to believe the storIes told by some of these gentlemen.
 THE WATER WORKS.
 If there IS oue thing more than sn- other that the people of Tombstone feel proud of, 1t IS their magnificent water works, which cannot be surpassed in thIs country. The water IS brought in from the Huachuca mountains dis tance Of thirty-oue miles through pipes which have capacity of 4J,000 gallons per hour, pressure 300 feet, which IS the heaviest sustained m any water pipes in this county, and possibly ID the world. The reservoir which is located on the hlIl above the Contention and Grand Central mines a. height ot 360 feet above Tombstone. have q capacity of 10000 gallons. For fire purposes a pressure of 160 pounds per square inch IS obtained, greater, it IS said than that of the best fire engines constructed. The water IS pure and soft, and when the fire hose Is uuthrcttled, the stream of water that comes out resembles a west ern cyclone, and 1t requires at least half dozen strong men tO shape its course. The water may be thrown 2S5 feet distant from the nozzle of the hose, and comes with such force that an ordi- pary building can be demolished in a .ew minutes. The water works of Tombstone cost SjO0.OOO and, though not a communist 1 should like to have