“A party of distinguished arrivals were in Tombstone today, and their presence gave rise to the general hope that the dark murky clouds that have long hovered over Tombstone’s industrial atmosphere would rise and reveal a luminous silver lining. Whispers, murmurs and rumors of the opening of the Tombstone mines under a consolidated management, would, if consummated, bring about a dawn of prosperity never equalled hereabouts, and the sunshine of consequent good times would start the sluggish commercial blood into the renewed activity and vigor of halcyon days.”

—John Clum, editor of the Tombstone Epitaph, October 21, 1900. As quoted in Tombstone: Myth and Reality by Odie B. Faulk, 1972.