Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-08-23
PHGN1x, Aug. 1883.


 # In the Arizoaa Gazette of the F :. inst there was an article, head
 Castle Creek Mines,'' in which t author of the article, Mir. Henry I x Wilcox, uses very forcible langua! . relative to the workings of the Coz U peropclis Mining Company whi
 operating in Castle Creek.
 : Now as the failure of that con
 pany in their mining enterprise f Castle Creek was a public as well ,
 a private and local calamity, Tn
 busiYess sense, and as I was the lar. ? l est stookholder ia the company, an the one who was the principal in ol ganizing 1t, and furnished tn .i ground on which the compan
 undertook to operate, an explanatio
 of myself in connection with tn
 management of said company tha
 culminated in SC disgraccful fail.
 ure. is, tliinlS, in order.
 Strong as are Mr. Wilcox's dcclar
 ations and deep as arc his r-flection:
 they do not reach the bottom. Tax.
 ing into consideration all the fact:
 of the case, that 1 was the holder oi
 two-fifsls of all the stock of the com
 pany, an old resident of Yavapai 1 courty in which the mines were lo-
 cated, and resident of Phoenix at
 the present time, was acquainted
 with all the mining enterprises that
 had been carried on in Yavapai
 county since its organization and be-
 fore, and with the causes of all the
 failures or successes of the different mining enterprises that have been undertaken in that county. that 1 followed prospecting and mining for a considerable portion of the tirae for r years, and had thus chance to become acquainted with the char> acter of mines of said county and the manner by which they should be opened and developed. it was rea> sonable that the general public, and the residents of the dis trict in which the mines arc located, of which Mr. Wilcox is one should imagine that 1 would have the prin> cipal say in managing the naodus 9perandt by which the busines of the enterprise would be conducted, 1 and G1 to say as to how the mine | should be opened and worked. To | many of this community and of Ya- Tapai county that are less acquainted with the facts than MT. Wilcox, it will be a surprise to learn that I vas discarded as a counselor and hat my suggestions were treated with such disrespect, and often with uch derision that my selfrespect that I leave the concern, nd l would have done so had it not een for some of nay old friends th at rged me to stay with it and try to revent, what was inevitable to all f us, so far as kirby's management 7as concernc'l-a failure.
 The business here was net rropcr- 7 managed; instead of try ins to save le small exchange Tn having his hecks ceshed- tae bank, by have lg them cashed by private com anies and individuals that were at le same time attending to q portion f his business, he should have kept is cash account with the bank and ayed his agents with cheeks. Tn e road to the smclter from and from the shelter 10 le mine,some two miles, was nei th- properly located or constructed, Id my advice was net followed in ther case. In the location or the ] e dump the location ot the machia y and mode of handling it from ( e dump to the feeder, my opinions I ere treated with derision, alth ough ose things come in the line of my S 'eclalily. But I would have saved [ rec hands on sh ft in handling T e ore on is way 10 the feeder. t But it is in conducting the devel- f 'ment of the mine that the fun r 'mes in. If tAere is anyone that 1 IS curiosity to see how much of l I mess can be made Of a mine with t A 900 or $l5, 900 let them go to c astle Creek and examine the deyel- a 'ments of Wm. Boyd, Mir Kirby's t reman, on the comPany's four E aims there. Right here let me c ake the distinct avowai that there | as no part of the work done on g at mine after MT. Kirky assumed 2 large, that l did not oppose and 7 to prevent. I argued against q cir system, pleaded and almost 'ayed to have them sink on the dc, instead of tunnelling and go- lering 1t; and as to cuss words, let . 7 sufficient of them to shock the . 'rges of a mule skinner, but all of ', , avail, for his foreman, Wm. 7 Oyd, native of Blackford coaney, ', ldiana, was an expert miner and perior judge of a mine, and a very Q ,traordinary judge of ore. He f 'uld take any piece CT kind of g 4 'pper ore and tell to within two Q 1T cent of what it would assay in e 'pper, and was just as good as q | dge of silver ore, while he could {, Il just what a dump would arras- z Q by the prospect in hornspoon. , Ich perfection was not to be sneez> at, and Mr. Boyd had things oout his own way. But is the mine claimed by the f opPeropolis company good or f iluable mine. This has not yet V cen established, although a shelter I IS been purchased, set up and run, | f