The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-05-09
TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA,
A Specimen Mining Town Where the CHIEF
Causes of Mortality are Whiskcy and
Rnd Cold Lead.


At the beginning of the year 1878 there
was not so much as tent at Tombstone
Ed y Schiefelin and brother started thither
prospecting. II was supposed to be an adj.
venture full of dangers. At the Santa Rita
silver mines, in the Santa Cruz Valley, for
instance, by no means as far away, three
superintendents had been murdered by H.
'ians in rapid succession. Friends there.
fore said, " Better take your coffin with you
Ed you will find your tombstone, and moth
ing else But Ed Scheffelin--a young
man yet, who has not discarded q pictur-
esque way - dressing of which he was fond,
nor greatly altered his habits otherwise
found instead the Tough MT and Conten-
ton mines, made great fortune ont of
them, aud was so plessed with the differ.
ence between what had really happened and
the prediction that he conferred the name OF
Tombstone upon the place itself,
One of the two well-printed and very
oreditable daily papers now existing has as
snmed the correspondingly dismal title of
the Epitdph. The uareliability of epitaphs
III the remark may be safely ventured at
this distances proverbal Nevertheless
they may occasionally tell the truth and
from appearances it would seem that this
was one of those occasions, and that almost
any laudation of its subjects by this partieu.
lar Epftdph was justiiabe The small city,
two years old at the date of this journey, had
attained to population of 2000, and prop
erty valuation, apart from the mines, of
Sl,050,9S0 desirable lot of 80 by so
feet, on Allen Street, between Fourth and
Sixth-such was the business-like nomen-
clature already used in this settlement of
yesterday--was worth $4,000. shanty that
cost $50 to build rented for SD month
A nucleus of many blocks at the centre con.
sisted of substantial large-szed buildings
hotels, banks, schietielin Hall, tfor meetings
and amusements, and stores stocked with
goods of more than the average excellence
Cor even older towns.
The mining claims run under the city it
self. From the roof of the Grand Hotel
you looked down Mt the shafts, the hoisi
works, and heaps of extracted ore of the
Wilma, the Gilded Age (close by the Palace
Lodging House. the Mountain Maid, and
other mines opening strangely in the midst
Of the buildings. This circumstance has
given rise TO disputes of ownership, so that
whoever would be safe purchases all the
conflicting titles both above ground and
below. On commanding hill close by TO
the southwark, were the Tough Nut aud
Contention, with above them many others
discovered later. The larger mines have ex.
tensive buildings of wood, painted Indian
red, with handsome draughting and assay
rooms Within and regularly educated
scientists, ex.college professors and the like
in charge. The lesser are fain to put up in
the beginning with common sheds and poor
en- appliances of every kind About them all
lie heaps of blacksh material resembling
inferior coal mixed with elote, which is the
silver ore in its native condition laborer
above ground earned $3.50, and below
ground 81, for "sllift of eight hours
work and the work went on night and day,
Sundays and all