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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1890
Page
3
Local notices report mail schedules with Bisbee and Prou Bush, property remarks, and upcoming municipal actions. Mentions include court cases, school trustee races, a mining sale of Cardigan and Ivanpah, electric plant plans for Turquois district, and a humorous local political humor piece. Also notes visits, lay-offs at Copper Queen Company, weather chatter, and social events.
Governor Winey asks all denominations to submit church statistics for his forthcoming annual report. Details requested include membership, church property, number of ministers, Sunday school numbers, attendance, auxiliary societies, and other religious data. Totals are to be provided for each denomination before September 1. Also mentions local notices from the San Francisco Chronicle and regional mail service developments, plus storm impacts and cattle shipments reported by Willcox outlets and a historic battle site at New Hill in Nogales.
The Republican Territorial Central Committee gathered in Phoenix on the 21st with a large attendance. They fixed the Territorial Convention for Tuesday the 26th and set representation at one delegate per fifty votes for Congress or Territorial legislature, plus one per fraction of twenty five votes. They urged rapid statehood for Arizona, pressed for a Republican Congress, and protested Attorney General rulings on public lands, calling for lands to be opened to settlement. Speakers included Herring Tombstone Smith Churchill Zabriskie and Gill urging united Republican action.
Reports from San Carlos describe detachments returning, a new flag staff and dawn cannon at the post, and planned canteen, bell room, and gymnasium buildings. Soldiers receive honors for quiet campaigns against Indians, with promotions and medals awarded. Details cover weather, mining plans, and agriculture prospects near Yuma and Gold Rock.
The Democratic Territorial Central Committee led by Morris Goldwater seeks input on whether to call a meeting for the Territorial convention and where to hold it. He reports loss of records, a new secretary, and asks members to propose vacancies and delegate basis, hoping a quorum may or may not form.
A special twelve car ore train from Mazatlan carried over two hundred tons of ore purchased by R Cline. The ore, assaying from $200 to $600 a ton in silver, traveled from Nogales Heald to Denver, with freight about $50 a ton, nearly $10,000 total. The feature includes Arizona irrigation reports, river surveys, and canal projects near Yuma, Riverside, and Gila Bend, plus plans for a Pecos Valley Railroad sublet job of one hundred miles.
From Salero Bowyer and Trask operate twenty men on El Plomo and the Sampson. They hoist about 20 tons daily with first class ore at $60 per ton and second class ore at over $20 per ton. A new hoist from 4 500 feet depth will lift 40 tons daily. A tramway to the mill is to be built by Col John Weir with Cleveland parties, reducing ore delivery costs to about 60 cents per ton. The mill concentrates 50 tons daily and the outlook remains favorable. Col Weir is due back in six weeks.
St Johns Herald denounces daily cattle slaughter near the White Mountain Indian reservation. Readers describe carcasses found by riders with some meat stripped or untouched. It urges Fort Apache agent Lieutenant Johnson to intervene and stop the trespass and cruelty.
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