Weekly Phoenix herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory [Ariz.]) 1882-1896, 1883-06-21
F1IE RE&VIS-WII.BIAG
CLAIM q.
Ten Million Dollars W6tfH OF
Land IIVOIVed



T land CASE. -
Mr. & O. NJ. " il.in@. a veneer. b.
gentleman who has hecn a rrsidcn
of ST. Lo'3ls since 1886, has Just en-
: cred lu!o war Of litigation whic'
may lst far herond the period O
- natural lifr, hut which m
vi, III 10 him or his heirs an imm MS
fnrtun' OF from $1,000 to 5000
5 eco. Mr VIII ny at present reside
on Ko' kuk leiweel Missoui "a
Illinois avenues, but for tIiir'y wear
he has Gc>idcd At HE corner rf isw
ing a7eiue aiii Market street d
Nancho sicr road He Ead son
somewhat Wild and reckless, who
bore the name dr Geo. n. Willing
IKE himself, aid it would appear
that whatever Of success vas achived
Hy the b.i!lilnt young man was
rosthumOus. Young Willing was
born In the twentics, ard was edu>
Gated for 4 physician. tie was :
very Drlght youth, bnt the medical
orofcssldn was disias' eful, and when
the gold fcTer broke edt in 1S49 he
turned his al;en{.on 10 'rrcs;ect;ag. -
which occnfatioh had such i fasci
nation for him that he gave il much
! nofe attention tllan the one to whI' Il
he was educated tip to the time of
his death He located mum rous
mines, and fortunes were mad- by
others out of the mines in Colorado
which he disc ,vercd. In 1913 ur
1914 he w=s married in ken itckv -
lady If that State who survives
him In his prospecting trip, how
ever, he did not ke he with him.
hut either left htr with his relatives
in Ken ucky or in St Louis. The
Wild ways of tic young man estrang-
ed him from his father, who all bat
d 'sowned him. ana ia, ir relations
during The last few years of the sons
life were not all friendly.
Besides Locating the mines above
referred to. DIR. Willing, in 1873 or
1874, Lcught from il Span ard named /
Miguel Peralia; a spani-h land /
grant for three Hundred square
leagues. or ,, 700 square miles of land |
in Arizona Territory, lying on the
Gila river, and exl ending to the b Sc
of the Maricopa mountain. For
this grant DIR. Wiling ia the
Spaniard 1000 Since then a nuns
Der of very remunerative mines
have been located on this tract, and
it is now worth, a government rates
TWO 4f LIIc&s,
And at market rates nearly ten mil
lions of dollars. On the night of
March 13, 1874, after having placed
he decd in the hands of the county
recorder at Prescott to be recorded,
DR.. Willing died very suddenly. He
-eilrcd in good health, but next
was found dead in bed
md it was supposed that his death
vas due to foul play. As there was
10 proof % poison, however, noih-
ng could be done lie was buried
It Pres colt, his wife being il ST.
4ouls at the time Some time sub
eduent to his death will wa; dis
covered in the hands OF an &c f.irsld
If his named ConOver in Philadel
'hia, wherein he willed number of
nires to his wife in fee and simple,
hey having had no children. Solh-
ng, hovc.cr, was said about this
asst tract jf land which he had ac-
Iuired subse Quent to the writing Of
he will. His father and several of
lis friends knew that he possessed
uch tract of Ian !, but they lacked
roof of it. Several years after the
L ath, one. J. Addison RcaviS, who
vas IL warm friend CT Willing. ap-
lied to his widow here IN St Louis,
or authority to look up the deed t.
hc
2,7rO-MELE TRACT.
lie gave her consent and he discov-
TT d that the deed to sa id tract had
cen given 10y DR.. Willing to the
ounty recorder 1T Prescott on the