Tombstone in the News

[Jim Holden]

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2012/05/10/road-serf...

 

I've never been to Tombstone, but it's featured prominently on the John Stossel show, which is airing this weekend on the Fox Business Network.  The town's water problems are featured in a segment detailing how the fire & rain destroyed their water supply and how the environmentalists, through the US Forest Service, are preventing them from rebuilding their water pipelines.

Interesting take on this show (it's not online in  a video yet, but will probably be after this weekend).

[Wolfgang]

Murray sed . . . "Maybe the Forest Feds think that Tombstonians still only bathe every six months and drink only hard liquor!" . . .

 

I thought they did only bathe every six months, and drank only hard likur..... ;)

[anthony martin]

 Stan,

   Water WILL become one of the big debating points increasingly in the southwest.I came out to Southern Ca. 21 years ago and was amazed/appalled about how L.A. sourced it's warer and the absolute selfish arrogance commonly displayed about it .Every time I go up to Bdie we stop at Mono Lake,a remarkable natural wonder vividly shrunk by rabid L.A.County consumption.

   I have little personal patience with those who lump all enviornmentalists together and try to demonize it into just a loony fringe.I would remind him or her that were it not for an enviornmentalist like Theodore Roosevelt and what he did to protect much of our future we would now have a very different scenario and a far poorer heritage.

   I currently find much of the contentiousness from the locals there in Tombstone to be  both annoying and frequently childish,not just about the pipeline issue but the silly,factionalized needless confrontation that goes on there over matters both large and small.It has kept that town small,a moral fiefdom for inveterate curmudgeons who've kept that town small.

   Put in the pipeline above ground and stop the stupid vandalism.Some of the folks around there need to show some real grit and post armed guards to inhibit the vandals.Then those other clowns can go back to butting heads over trifles again.

[anthony martin]

  Sorry for the unintentional redundancy of my above third paragraph-I had a neighbor whose political views are extremely left of center  making lots of"helpful" suggestions while I was trying to compose my response!

[Stan H]

Well said, anthony

[Gold Lady]

Anthony, I ways wondered why Tombstone has stayed so small, with all the tourists who come through. So you think it's because of the infighting making people not want to live there, or enacting regulations, or what?

[anthony martin]

  Gold Lady,

    Well,truly the political party alignments an nd cowboy versus townie alignments that informed the trouble there in the early 1880's have NEVER gone away and that oppositional nature manifests itself in the most ertrordinarily silly and petty ways.If one tries to address issues that would expand the actual historical fabric of the town itself one is met with instant opposition and small issues there become  major pissing contests.The people there have a real wariness about outsiders with money and good ideas- not selfish developers mind you,but serious old west enthusiasts and historians.One individual wanted to do an authentic ca.1880 steam passenger train service there-a glorious idea that would have swelled the influx of tourist dollars.Their response to this "outsider"was to tear up the existing old tracks and turn the roadbed into a nature walk,a classic example of the shoot themselves in the foot thinking that keeps that town down.They are utterly dependent on tourist money yet disparage good people with brains,talent and a love of history.I love going there but hate the local infighting and lack of vision.They even fight and factionalize about who there has the greater right to portray the Earps and Clantons/McLaurys!A couple of the saloons there don't even like outside re enactors.

[Jim Holden]

My last 2 Cents on this, but if you enjoy the outdoors, clean air and water, thank a Conservationist.  Those folks have been fighting the good fight since Teddy Roosevelt's day - and he was a Conservationist, not an Enviro.....just a shade different.

[anthony martin]

  Jim,

    You are absolutely right in making the distinction as being a shade different but one movement begat the other.I'm an ardent advocate of firm conservation policies and INTELLIGENT enviornmentalism and deplore some of the activity of the more strident enviornmentalist faction.They do a great deal of harm and cause folks to shut down into frustrated apathy.

[Vito Fashoda]

I went to Tombstone, walked down Allen St. dressed in period.  I was treated by the locals like I belonged there.  Since I wasn't heeled, every shop I went in to, I was treated with the utmost kindness.  I felt like I belonged there.  Maybe I was there 132 yrs ago. One thing I'm certain of, I belong in the Southwest.