Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-05
HISTORIC Il KEYSTONE
 COM E TO THE FRONT

Cicbe Reccr ] ci v-yterdsy. dated from Tombstone. ard IS from no other source than the versatile p-n ci Joe ChiSholr,. well known scribe. who has been visit ing the Old Camp the past week on the Cuunipg gham Costello case. IL is good boost for our city.
 Induhi,ahly Tombstone, once the prond metropolis of Arizona. is a sub feet that naver falls on the senses of HaSSayampers. forsooth much of the sIamor of ,iuneer days for the new oomer to Apache land Your cores poadent has known the old city through Ghirty four years of roman tic boom days and years of depression. and was surprised upon stepping of the train the other day to ind Tombstone once again pTosperous and busy beyond all expectations. Its mines are again employing hundreds of workers. ,,s bu- siness houses are rejuvenaied and its streets are besprinkled with many Of the best known folks of the southwest. many of whom are here as witnesses or principals in what the Tombstone Prospector calls the famous million dol
  lar case that of Patrick Cunning ham < heirs against the Costello estate They are seeking to recover S5o0.0D0 from the defendant from what they claim to have been Cunniusham's share in the famous Irish Mag and other claims sold to the Calumet & Arizona people in the nineties
 The Phelps Dodge people have pur chased the famous one time silver mines that Ed Schieffin discovered in try in 1879. and the dumps that once marked the wealth producer bonanza that built a modern city three hundred miles from a railroad in a few months, are now to be worked by the tremend- ously efficient methods that are the marvel of the mining industry. and made to contribute to the profits that will be obtained from the twice aban- doned shafts of this district. The Bun Fer Hill mines company IS the name of the subsidiary company uf the great Phelps Dodge syndicate. IL IS expert menring with cyniding and oil fota- ton on ap extensive scale that presages immense operations when the com pany's program of development and or C treatment shall have been definitely settled. so it is safe to predict that the present working force of $50 will grow largely in the future. Tombstone's in- dustrial future therefore is assured.
 A feature of civic revivihcation cer- tain to impress the old-timer is the vast soric Tombstone Daily Prospector and its Sunday edition the Tombstone Epi taph The writer feels as one who pro fznes $ sne sacred institution when ht says any one has improved upon th' prospecter as conducted by historic BiH Hattich, but such is the case. The Giragi brothers are live wires and art giving Tombstone newspaper that is If possible. ahead of the remarkable latter day spurt of the city ii serves But, anyhew, Bill Hat,ich did for year, what no other could have accomplished He cheeriully continued to publish { newspaper with a cider press. usins nails for type. and getting his telegraph by freight. despite the cavilling O County Recorder Owen Murphy. Wal Correspondent Oscar Coll and oth~i crabs who were won't to mistake theiI several grouches for divine affiatus ana mastedy command of the English lang ~idge as she is writ.
 The topic that overshado~s all othei matters here at present IS the case O Cunningham vs Costello Both side' are represented by eminent ounsei. thu plaintiff by the brilliant Senator Ives the celebrated Bill Cleary. who despite the general disposition to call him Bil and slam him on the back is considered by many the most eloquent Arizonan and Roy Morfoot, whose opening ad dress to the jury has been pronounced by all concerned one of the cleveres addresses ever heard in Cochise county The defense has Ellinwood. keen 3 brain and abstruse in the so-calle' science of law: his partner Ross, force fui and magnetic. Ben Goodrich. deal