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Show Oddest of Jails. One of the oddest of jails is that at CI iff ton, Graham county, Ariz., which lies iu one of the copper mining cen-terR cen-terR of the new state. This jail comprises com-prises four large apartments hewn in the side of a hill of solid quartz rock. The entrance is situated in a boxlike vestibule built of heavy masonry and the gates have three sets of steel bars. At intervals in the rocky walls holes to serve as windows have been blasted blast-ed and in these apertures a series of massive bars of steel has been fitted firmly in the rock. The floor of this rockbound jail is of cement. The prisoners are confined wholly in the larger apartments. In certain places the wah of quartz about the jail is no less than fifteeen feet in thickness. So solid and heavy are the barriers to this institution that no prisoner .has ever attempted escape. Harper's Weekly. |