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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1893
Page
3
Tombstone onlookers note a busy scene with visitors from Benson, Fairbank, and Los Angeles. Officials report seven prisoners in the county jail while the SP. R. B. sues Yuma to quiet title. Posts mention hog planting and a booming mining interest across Cochise with development plans for Santa Catalina copper mines. A Mexican officer and aides visited Tombstone as horse thieves are tracked near Fort Huachuca.
An agreement filed in the Cochise county recorders office bonds mining property near Dos Cabezas for 32000. Owners Hugh McCrum John Stoule and L C Hughes bind F A Huntington to begin work by December 1 1893 and mine at least twenty tons daily. If ore is payable a mill will be built within ninety days. Repayment terms include installments or 25 percent of gross bullion receipts until full payment. If Huntington delays or stops for 30 days the contract becomes void.
A long OCR text lists numerous cattle brands and owners from various offices and ranges. It includes brands such as left hip, left thigh, and shoulder marks with owner names and locations like Tombstone, Granite Springs, Huachuca mountains, and Sulphur Springs Valley. The compendium enumerates brands for many ranches including A MONK BROS, BRADLEY, RICHARDSON, DUNSHEE & METCALF, SULLIVAN & BARES, CHIRICAHUA CATTLE CO, and more, detailing where each brand appears on cattle and horses.
A Ravenswood West Virginia notary public reports his seven year old son suffered a white swelling on the leg causing contraction and lameness. Lancing offered little help. Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Sarsaparilla were given, bone fragments discharged, swelling decreased and the leg regained full use.
U S Land Office Tucson notices Cooper Queen Consolidates and agent William apply for a patent for 547 lode acres on the Sugptive vein in the Warnes Mining District Cochise Arizona. Plot describes corners and lode claims with copper, gold and silver prospects, filed with plat and bearings, total 264 acres, notice to adverse claimants. State publication in Tombstone Epitaph for ten weeks from publication date.
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