Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-14
FINDING TOMBSTONE.



A ProspeCtoI's LucIs-s POOR Man Wh
Got Mich.
rror. she Fhflq3sipHia Times.
A tall, handsome man, with dan Gin
blue eyes, full brown beard and Ion
hair falling over his shoulders, with hi
head covered by "a big black s0mbrero, sg
in the corridor OF the Continental hotc
last night, smoking cigar and watch.n
the men who walked in and out. He wor
a suit of brown and 3 gray cheyiot shirt
thrown open at the throat, silk Aandker
chief tied in a loose knot peeped out IRON
under his bushy beard and the Urstoancs
OF the cheviot shirt showed below be
sleeves Of his coat His face Was rosy
and whom he stood up ne was more tAah
6 feet nigh and br0adshoudefed. ne
sauntered up % the hotei counter ana
cnatted with Clork HaWes and spoke
about Philadelphia's beng cdli place 10
strike on a rainy day. The ieEIsIri snow
I'd that he was Edward Sclleileleu, ot
Los Angeles Cal. aud he SAID he ndO leIJ
home week before. where the wheat
was feet utgh and the peach trees were
in bloom. award ~cA4cAe.cn dlscpNeie ca
the famous Tombstone mining district
and rosda2 fortune. lie is tde biggest
mines he has discovered have yield
nG I'D more than 925.W0,OoJ worth OF
silver ore He came East just for fly
5ng uip and win return 70 California next
week
TIRE DISCOVERY OF TOMBSTONE.
In speaking Of the discovery Of Tomb
stone he said
81 discovered the Tombstone mining
district IN the summer Of -. had been
looking for "A successful md for fourteen
years. I went INTO the Tombstone hills
July 8, 1871, and / found silver ore
on the surface. l found some worth
very rich ledges-sOme OF the ore was
$4,000 a ton. Idiuu't dare to stay there,
on account OF the Apache indians. They
We're very troublesome, aud C0cAiae, who
was then their chief had his stronghold
down the san Pedro river, miles from
Ton bstone / went there from day to
day to look q my find and made what we
call 6 dry camp. ] was busted when /
made the ind. One day in August 1
gathered up some Of the ore that was
worth $4,000 a ton and took IL in TO Tue
son: but the people wouldn't listen TO me
when iO.d them that the ore assayed
$4,000 to every ton. So l went back to
Tombstone all alone, without any money
or any friends or any provisions, and
lived on the game I killed with my rife
4
up my brother, who was mining at the
McCracken mines, 400 miles away. IN the
northern part Of Arizona. There | met
Dick Grid, who became my partner, and
he and l and my brother got a wagon and
some provisions and an assaviug outfit
and went back to Tombstone. We arrived
there Feb. 26, 1878. During my absence
old Cochse died and his band scattered,
and that made Tombstone comparatively
O.. =. IA Fek -
stone in the rough. Just as | found il, was
worth a clean half million. In the
spring of rs parties came from san Frau
DISCO. We wanted money. so we sold
them what was known as the COnten-
lion mine for $4,000 cash. We sold it
Just "a we located 10 and don't begin to
know the millions OF dollars it's yielded
since.
SELLING OUT TO HAMILTON DIsSTON.
'In the winter of rs and the spring OIL
20 Dick Grid, my brother, Ex-Gov
Stafford, of Arizona, and myself organic
ed the. Tombstone Min and Mining Com
pany. Hamilton DisstOn and other Phil
adelphians became the purchasers OF oul
interests, DisstOn made the dicker. lie
came out there and asked us TO name oul
figure. We said 100000 apiece and W.
got it on the spot. DisstOn lust jumped
at it. was rich man. A year before
that / went TO my home in Jackson cOun
ty, Oregon, after having, been absen
seven years, and only had 81 90 in my
pockets, and when l left home again
borrowed 500 from my father and tolC
him l was going to locate a mine sure
and ] did. IVe been prospecting all my
life, for twenty-five years steady, and
suppose I'll be prospecting till l die.
like it better than owning the riches
mine in the country. After we sold GU
Dick Grid bought a stock ranch, so miles
from Los Angeles. There's 10000 acre.
OF it and he's got to-day one OF the fines
stocked ranches in the country. It's
known as the Chino ranch. My brothe
came to Philadelphia, lost good deal o
his money in speculation, and last Marcl
he came out to Los Angeles and died o
consumption. The Eastern climate hat
ruined his health. | went to Los Angelo
for time.
now TOMBSTONE COR IT'S NAME.
Before / discovered the Tombston
mines l stopped in the military camp a
HOnchuca. | was waiting for party O
scouts to go Out, calculating TO follow
them through the mountains all summer
was afraid to travel alone, on accoun
Of the Indians. but / went into tn
Tombstone country frequently, and wheI
I'D come back after two or three days
prospecting the soldiers would ask me j
/ had found anything. I'd always tel
them hadn't, and one soldier kept tell
ing me that if l didn't look out for In.
dams I'd lind myTom bstone some day.
was impressed with what the soldier sait
and so when discovered the ore | Jus
named the place Tombstone. Now it,
the county seat of Cochise county. The
county was named after the old Apache
chief. When everybody was excited
about the Tombstone mines the place haC
population OF about 9,000 but now it,
down TO about 1000. The floating popula
tiOn has lett.
PROSPECTING IN ALASKA.
Gin 1882 1 went to Alaska. l built
river steamer and fitted It with three
years. stores. ] went up the Yukon rivel
1920 miles. think the river is equal I,
the Mississippi. l spent two summer
and one winter there. ! found gold, bu
not in big quantities. 1t would pay a
man about $40 a day to mine it. It's q
very pretty coarse gold. 1t wouldn't pa,
10 mine it, though. because the neares
source OF supply is san Francisco. Loo
miles away. II took sixteen months foi
me to get letter from home. The onl
means Of communication Is through tn
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