Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-30
HARMON VS. WHITE.
A Strange Mining Law Suit in Court.
The Case on Trial To-day in the Territorial District COurt-restimony for
 the Defense.

The case of Harmon vs. White, which has been before the District Court for the past two days, is one of the most important mining suits that has been in the Territorial courts since the Famous Total Wreck case. According to an inter view wlth Mark Maloney this morning, one of the principal witnesses ID the case, its history IS as follows:
 He located the Oak Grove mine near Harshaw in the Patagonia mountains, on July 10th, 1877. The assessment work was done in the latter part of January and the former part of Febru- ary, 1878. The time ran out July, 10, 1879, when the mine was let go until February F, 1880, when it was relocated by Thomas Maloney, his brother, who he claims did over S4,OO0 worth of work on the mine that year.
 Through some misunderstanding David Mel located the mine June l5. 1881, and transferred a half interest to Harmon. Meanwhile White had ob- tanned control of Maloney's part. The matter now has come into the court to determine the ownership. There are also several other locations in dispute
 Messrs. Campbell and Smith appear tor the prosecution. and Messrs. Silent, Morgan and Stephens for the defense.
 This morning on the witness stand Mark Maloney testified that he had located the Oak Grove mine in 1877. About the last of January and the first of February, 1878, he had worked out the assessment and sunk shaft; Con Ryan and two Mexicans helped; he pros. pected the vein in three or four places where it cropped out, and picked holes about foot deep. The character of the soil where the shaft is sunk IS hard; used a little powder; could have made faster progress If he had used more powder; was at work eleven days; the Mexicans worked twelve days; Ryan worked at least eleven days; wrote from Tucson to my brother at Harshi W to locate the Goshen mine, as l saw by the records that it was vacant; Matthew Maloney is at Hot Springs. Arkansas; Apperson is living: collected money from Wood and Hereford for Apperson's interest; at the time We started 10 do the assessment work there was hole about two feet deep; ran down several feet more; the Mexicans worked in the shaft with their shovels; the character of the ground was loose; there were no earthy deposits; can pick 1t.
 Con Ryan, sworn-Reslde in Sonoita valley; know the Oak Grove, Goshen and Flux locations since 1877; know about the work on the Oak Grove in 1878; with Maloney and two Mexicans; have been a miner since 1853: worked the assessment on the Oak Grove; no work was done thereon from July 10, IS7S-79; was living near at that time, and would have known of any work If there had been, and would have known something about it; had several eonver- sations with Neil about the title; in '79 Gleason and John Mansfield went with me to locate the Flux mlne; Maloney said that in the fore part of 80 he had a chance to sell the Flux; told him to get deed from Davis; afterward Malo- ney got the deed; had a conversation at Harshaw in the fall of 'Sl with Mel and Gleason about the sale of the mine; had no conversation with David Harmon up to the tlufe he bonded the mine to Mir. Mel; on the Oak Grove location l work ed fourteen days; the two Mexicans worked eleven days; over SlOO worth of work was done; have mined in Pennsyl- vania, South America and Arizona; my interest in these mmes Is worth three or four thousand dollars; don't know the exact dates in 1878 when we worked out the assessment on the Oak Grove; camp ed down the grade from the mine under tree near water; MRloney was prospect ing around; only two could work in the shaft; worked on top; took our tools there sharpened; Maloney had theP re- sharpened at Harshaw or Aztec; the shaft was eight or ten feet wide and about two feet deep-we sank 1t the length of a long-handled shovel, and made It about fourteen feet deep altogether; kept no account of the tune; worked seven or eight hours per day; began work after breakfast; breakfasted by candlelight; did not state on or about November l6, 1881, to Harmon before Mel that I dld not own pipe-full of the mine.