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Show STRONGEST JAIL ON EARTH. Philadelphia Ledger. Graham county Jail, at Clifton, Arls., is unique. It comprises four large apartments hewn from the solid quartz rock of a hillside. The entrance is through a box-like vestibule, built of heavy masonry and equipped with three sets of steel gates. The floor of the rock-bound Jail Is of cement, and the prisoners are confined exclusively In the larger- rooms. Some- t the most desperate criminals on the Southwest border have been confined in the Clifton jail, and - so solid and heavy ai ? the barriers to escape that no one there has ever attempted to break for freedom. The notorious Black Jack was there foi months. The wall of quartz about the Jail is fifteen feet thick. Clifton Is one of the great copper mining camps in Arizona, and has the reputation of being be-ing as depraved a community as yet exists on the frontier of civilization. In summer the mercury there frequently rises to 120 in the shade, and in the winter win-ter is never goes below 40 degrees, , |