The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-12
TOWN OF to- .BSl ONE.
How it Started and How it Was
Named.

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Named.
The death and burial of Ed Scheiffe-
lin. says the Phoenix Republican, has
recalled the founding of Tombstone and
revived the discussion regarding the
origin of its gruesome name. A Bis
bee cattle and mining man en- route
west last Sunday morning related to
Mr. ]. N .Zeigenfuss the story of the
rise. growth and decay of Tombstone.
The writer himself was a part owner
Of the Tough Nut and the Lucky Cuss.
and was a resident of Tombstone
Through its incipient and lurid per-
iOds.
He said that some time before 1878
Ed Schieffelin, his brothers, AL, Dick
Gfrd and another man, whose name
he had forgotten, were unprofitably en-
gagged in mining at Signal. Ed Schieff-
elm, who was not a miner of any skill
or success in any direction, left With
the partner whose name is forgotten.
for Globe and Lake valley, New Mex
leo.
They went up the ella to Riverside,
where they had dispute. Schieffelin
followed up the Santa Cruz and finally
! brought up at a mining camp not far
from Harshaw. He remained there a
short time and then went to the Bron-
co, a disputed mines above Charleston,
in the struggle for the possession of
which eight lives had been already lost.
The Apaches were overrunning the
country making existence uncertain.
Schieffelsn was hired at 81 a day to sit
on an eminence overlooking the Bronco
and watch for Indians. One dav a
horse strayed out from the camp and
Schieffeiin having been sent to hunt for
IT, wandered into what was afterward
called Tombstone gulch. On that trip
he found some co9Der-Stained rock on
the site of the latter claim made IA
nous as the Tough Nut. Schieffelin
sent samples Of the rock TO Gird, who
was still at Signal. The result of an
assay was nc. encouras lng. He after
ward found some Lucky Cross ore. 1t
was very rich: so rich, in fact, that
Grid and Al Schieffelin came on. They
explored the region and sent a guam
tity of ore to Ehrenberg to be assayed.
They had SO little faith in the locality
that they soon after abandoned it and
scattered over the country. Ed Schief-
felin going to Globe and Lake valley,
whittier ne had set out from Signal a
year before. Returns from the rock
sent to Gutenberg were not received
for five months. They were SO surpris-
ing that Grid. the Schleffelins and the
relator gathered again near the present
ste of Tombstone. which then began
to be buiie.
The name. by the way, was bestowed
as follows: A thin, unpromising vein
in a granite formation was followed
until it widened and threatened opu-
lence amid q kind of rock which pro-
jected from the surface roughly re-
semDling the headstones Of a grave.
That was all the suggestion an imag-
NATIVE prospector needed and historic
name was given birth.
The relator sold his interest in the
Tough Nut and Lucky Cuss claims for
200. Ed Schieffelin held on a little
longer and got $600000 Grid sold his
in 1881 for s1.5OO,0 900. At that time it is
said 100000 of stock was held alone
in Pittsburg and Oil City. In four
years more the dream was over and
the awakening was begun. The
Apaches had been driven out of the
country about Charleston and work
was resumed on the Bronco, which had
so far produced nothing but human
blood and lively hope. 1t was quickly
shown by uninterrupted development
work that there was nothing in the
mine. 1t wasn't worth one of the
eight lives than had been sacrificed
for it.