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Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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sfond, nor greatly altered his habits otherwise—found in-stead the Tough Nut and Contention Mines. He made agreat fortune out of tliem, and was so pleased at the dif-ference between the prediction and the result that hegave the name of Tombstone to the town itself. One of two well-printed daily papers has assumed thecorresponding title of the Ejntcqjh. The unreliability ofepitaphs—if the remark may be safely ventured even atthis distance—is proverbial. Nevertheless, they may oc-casionally tell the truth. From appearances it wouldseem that this was one of the occasions. Almost anyeulogy of its subject by the Epitaph would seem justi-fied. The city, but two years old at this date, had at-tained to a population of 2000, and a property valuation, TOMBSTONE, 487 apart from that of the mines, of $1,050,980. A desirablelot of 30 by 80 feet, on Allen Street, between Fonrtliand Sixth—such was the business-like nomenclature usedalready in this settlement of yesterday—was worth §6000.
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SCHIEFFELIN. A shanty that cost §50 to build rented for §15 a month.A nucleus of many blocks at the centre consisted of sub-stantial, large-sized buildings, hotels, banks—SchieifelinHall, for meetings and amusements—and stores stockedwith goods of more than the average excellence in manyolder and laro^er tow^ns. 488 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES. Tlie mining claims run under the city itself. Fromthe roof of the Grand Hotel yon look down at the shafts,hoist-works, and heaps of extracted ore of the Yizina, theGilded Age (close to the Palace Lodging-house), theMountain Maid, and other mines, opening strangely inthe very midst of the buildings. This circumstance hasgiven rise to disputes of ownership, so that whoeverwould be safe purchases all the conflicting titles, bothabove ground and below. On a commanding hill closeby, to the southward, are the Tough Nut and Conten-tion, and above them many others later discovered. Thelarger mines had extensive buildings, of wood, and inhan

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