Tombstone epitaph., 1915-10-24
TOMBSTONE GIVEN
 4 BIG BOOST

' build and information journal of ths Mountain States Telephone Company | in it's Oct rber issue has the following to say about Tombstone
 Tombstone. Arzons. most historic 1 O.. s1uthnrSfe1n mlning camps, ls on the upgrade It has come back" It 1 is re-en;-ring an era of prosperity. one that is expected to eclipse any Of the past. and. better still. one of perman- ency. It's mine> have been taken over by the greatest and wealthicst aggrega- lion of mining capital to be found in | thc country. The PIelps Dodge inter r>tS Day by day increased forces ,fr being put on. No longer are there any vacan- houses to be had. Build ing operations have been resumed IL was in 1878 that Edward Scheiffe- lin located the first mining claims at what is new Tombstone Since then the city has enjoyed it's days of pros pcrity and faced it's days of diversity. T. was the 'Wolfville" of Alfred Henry Lewis in it's early days oi the wild aud woody It was proudly bad. go over it. hecame the county seat of
 >ochiss county and grew to be proudly good. Its sturdy sons and daughters stood bravely by their homes and now are enj, yug the right Of the rejuvena- lion of old Tombstone" What they always hoped they now know-Tomb- tone can come back. IL has come back. It no longer one of the ghost cities" Of ,he Southwest
 There is no city in Arizona that has
 more id l"cation than has Tomb ,'une. IL .s situated on mesa that slopes gently away from the mountains that back # and looks out upon and across the broad San Ped Valley 10 the west It's slope gives il a natural drrinage from surface flood waters and for sanitary purposes. Its drinking water is crystal clear nouttain water piped from the Huachuca Mountains clear acr 'ss the San Pedro Valley.
 Its climate IS almost idea Its eIe- vation is sufficient to temper the heat of summer. and in winter il knows no rigors IL is equable with compara- Uvrly slisht variations between the days and the nights. So perfect are location and climate that it is now proposed. and the proposal is taking on definate form, to establish a health resort ngarby. IL is needless to say that such resort will not be known as Tombstone a name too suggestive of death to he associated with the idea of returning health. But then the name and the city have ever been in direct contrast with one another
 But a shorr year ago Tombstone had working at its mines only few leasers- Today ,lIe operatives are numbered by the hundreds and are nearing the thousand Conservative proved. sue cessful miuing methods have been in- trcduced, and a vast wealth is at hand to develop and to mine the wealth mountains that back up the pretty little city No longer are the streets lined with vacant storerooms Pros porous business houses now occupy the buildings that then were vacant and falling into dila apidation The painters brush has been freely used The town has frightened up on the surface as well IS beneath. physically as well as mentally.
 It was deemed a great blow to Tomb stone when the Tombstone Consolidat- ed Mining Company was declared bankrupt and all work shut down
 Ex plora'ion for ore with depth had brought only water in increa sing quan- titles. Pumps had been put in only to be flooded out. The city was in the dcidrums. All that was left to it was the court house and the county busi- ness. But it was blessing in disguise. as now appears since the new mining intsrests have taken over the property and secured many of the surroun ding mining claims, Helpless hope has