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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Queenie" data-source="post: 4039554" data-attributes="member: 8058">Promise City DescriptionsThe town of Promise City is nestled in a basin beneath the foothills of the Chiricahua Mountains.  It was founded in 1880 after silver was first discovered at what became the Breakheart Mine.  Prospectors flocked to the area and began digging. Silver was also discovered at the Liberty Hill Mine an eigth-mile east of the Breakheart and the town then grew up between them.    Two other small mines (Lucky Deuce & Gila Belle) have also appeared in the hills immediately surrounding the town.    One of the principal landowners in and around Promise City are Elton Hubbard, owner and president of the SilverBell Mining Company, which is the parent company of the Breakheart Mine and Breakheart Stamping Mill and Smelter.    Two brothers who own one of the banks in town, Frank and Morgan Condon, also own a fair number of buildings in and around the town.   A number of speculators have purchased land within a ten-mile radius of the town.   One of these, a gambler and lawyer named Hamilton Fisk, owns most of a mountain five miles northeast of town where a lucrative silver vein has just been discovered.   In 1882 the silver was discoved at Fisk Mountain and that mine has been regularly worked since.  The Seawell-Morand mining company has also now bought up much of the remaining surrounding land.  The town currently has a population of approximately 300.   The town has had a rough and lively existence, with nearly a hundred graves now up upon the Boot Hill Cemetery.  The town has seen visits from several infamous individuals including Jesse and Frank James and is best known to the world as the site where Billy the Kid was killed by Arcade’s Gang.   The town itself consists of an untidy sprawl of around two hundred buildings.   The town’s water source, Pine Creek, flows along the northwestern corner of town.   The hills housing the mines run from the southwest to southeast to northeast corners of the town, so that any expansion of the town would have to be to the north or west. The Streets of Promise CityThe town currently consists of only nine streets.    Three 700-foot long streets run east-to-west.   The southernmost of these is the twenty-foot wide South Street, with the Breakheart and Liberty Hill mines at either ends of it.   Running parallel this, around 120 feet further north is the thirty-five-foot wide Main Street.   Again running parallel, another 170 feet further north of Main is the twenty-foot wide Sierra Street.   The main road out of town leading northwest to the towns of Dos Cabezas and Tombstone begins at the eastern end of Sierra Street.  One other east-to-west street is the twenty-foot wide Silver Street that runs for 150 feet.  It is on the northwestern side of town and is situated between Main and Sierra Streets.  All five north-to-south streets begin at their northernmost buildings, approximately 80 feet north of Sierra Street.   The westernmost of these streets is the twenty-foot wide Federal Street which runs for 350 feet, ending along South Street at the front gate of Boot Hill.   The thirty-foot wide Front Street is 100 feet to the east of Federal and only runs for 300 feet, stopping prior to South Street due to the location of Condon’s Bank.   The thirty-foot wide Allen Street is 90 feet east of Front and runs for 425 feet, ending at the Lucky Deuce Mine.  The thirty-foot wide Fremont Street is 80 feet east of Allen and runs for 500 feet to the last buildings. After that it continues on between two hills and exits the town as the south road from town, leading to the town of Galeyville and then on to the New Mexico Territory.  Another 50 feet east of Fremont is a fifteen-foot wide alleyway that runs for 400 feet that is informally known as East Street</blockquote>

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