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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1899
Page
2
A garbled montage cites absurd prices and perpetual motion notions, mentions United States indebtedness, Grand Canyon descriptions, Arizona copper fortunes, and legislative clerk salaries. It includes clipped quotes from the Tucson Star Florence Times and a Paris Cascarets prompt, reflecting a patchwork historical newspaper fragment.
Lawyer from Tuscon visits on mining and cattle concerns while D A Land contemplates cross border matters. Local business, property sale of O K stables, miners Fred Henry and A E Smith, a Welch misis, and Good Templars funeral mark a busy week in Bisbee and nearby towns.
B J O Rielly moved to Maso yesterday and opened real estate. A F Barker, bill clerk at the depot, has been sick with the grippe. Supt. Clerk C W Hicks traveled to Nase Baturday on business. H L Eisenbart and Oregon prospectors left for Gumpas, Met., seeking gold. Salvation Army entertainers visited Library Hall with 25 cents admission. Mexicans and Americans hosted a ball to celebrate town prosperity with dancing until daylight.
The town buzzes with copper mining interest as buyers arrive and locals like Packard and Gaddie stay on. Prof McCrea’s letter is debated while Mather’s Minstrels set for February 3 at the Opera House. Bishop Kendrick preaches at Library Hall about daily bread.
The United States grants Hudson Reservoir and Canal Co. a basin called Tonto Basin to store Salt River water. Plans include dam at canyon head creating a lake covering eightown square miles with depths up to 100 feet. Construction cost estimated at 2 5 0 0 6 0 8 dollars and the project would divert water back to the valley via a 30 mile canal. Local notes mention adjustments to transportation and event postponements in Globe and Tombstone.
J C Page returned from Bisbee as the Gile Valley Telephone Company received 20 new lines for Solomonville and Bernardico ranches. Officials will journey to Tucson for land court to settle land grant titles while miners in Corbine County prepare testimony. M H Twomey arrived from Willcox, a booster of Corhine County mining, and Tombstone Terpichorean Club promotes a $50 000 caller who entertains with quadrille and original songs.
The Phoenix supervisor conference adjourned January 26 198u after discussing measures to memorialize Congress on funding act extensions and railroad tax issues. Proposals include re enactment of bullion tax law board of equalization expansion and higher district attorney salaries. An appointed committee reported the attorney general views on railroad tax exemption evasion via licensing.
Readings covered consent and memorials to Congress on Pima county ore sales and bond extensions. Bunck proposed forestry repeal questions to Secretary of the Interior. Wright and Donan discussed bills on mining, mine inspector, and labor hours for underground miners. All committees granted time. No. 14 passed third reading for final passage unanimously.
The piece blends nostalgic cold weather reminiscence with quirky anecdotes about a blizzard from twenty years past and a stalled marriage proposal at Upper Grove. It notes visitors to Tombstone, mentions Prof Willard and F N Wolcott family, and closes with a humorous, improvised list of election expenses and small cost items.
The Land Court in Tucson hears Boquillae v Nogel claim covering 41 594.64 acres mainly in Cochise County with recapitulation of area assigned in Arizona cases. The Tucson interview reveals Tombstone note on county growth and population dynamics as gold and mining towns decline. The report mentions Tombstone court house jail and local officials reflecting taxation and settlement shifts.
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