(ARIZONA) Schieffelin Edward Letter to his aunt describing t

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THE FOUNDER OF TOMBSTONE SELLS HIS MINING RIGHTS (ARIZONA.) Schieffelin, Edward. Letter to his aunt describing the sale of his interest in Tombstone. Autograph Letter Signed on Palace Hotel letterhead to Mrs. M.E. Throckmorton in Washington, DC, 2 pages on one sheet, 10 x 8 inches, with partial mailing envelope (lacking stamp and part of postmark). Tucson, AZ, 25 March 1880

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Schieffelin was a prospector who discovered silver ore in the Arizona wilderness in 1877. He founded the Tombstone Gold and Silver Mining Company in 1878 to mine it, helped launch the town of Tombstone which quickly sprung up around it, and then sold his rights on 14 March 1880 to resume his restless search for fresh prospects. This letter to his aunt describes his life just eleven days after the sale, while recuperating from a nasty case of catarrh in Tucson: "I guess that my brother and self has sold our intrest in Tombstone. We have not received the money yet, only one small payment. My brother has gone too New York too receve the ballance of the money." He also describes a recent photograph "taken as I look evry day when around Tombstone."