Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-24
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A welI-Known Miner i'm Butte Comes
Into His Fortune After Twenty-Five
Years.

A welI-Known Miner fin Butte Com.
Into His Fortune After Twenty-Ffv
Years.
In Thursdays Salt Lake Tribune AZ
peared a local item concerning the opers
lions OF a great French copper syndicat,
composed OF wealthy bankers and can;to
lists of Paris who have sent over Pr,
Sebilott as engineer and manager ~ A.
velop the properties Of the Comet smelt;n
Company in Utah. The article conclude
as follows:
A III BUY.
Prof. sebilott arranged while here, will
A. Levy, P. Murphy, M. Monahan and p
Campbell, for the purchase of a belt \
seven copper mines in Yayapai countv
Arizona, for $200. 600 cash, and cabled 81
once for an expert from Paris to come ont
and examine the belt. This Arizona nron.
erty is supposed to be, by parties who
nave peen over the ground, the richest and
iargest groGp In Arizona. The property ia
isolated, being ninety miles from tha 4
P. railroad, and almost inaccessible frono
the Colorado river, twenty-five miles dis
tant. However, the local physical d;fs.
culties will not interfere with the ran;d 40.
ve!opment OF the property, as there Ia to
built a branch railroad line TO Prescott.
TWENTY-FIVE ON THE ooAsr.
The gentleman mentioned in the above
as "P. Murphy" lis Mr.. Patrick D. Murphy
who is well known i'm Butte and who has
spent the last twenty five years OF life min.
ing in the West. He was seen by a reporter
yesterday and stated that his interest in
the Arizona mines mentioned is "a fourth.
He may be said to be distinctively a west.
ern pioneer having been among the first to
strike OUT lor new excitements wherever
they have sprung up. He has p~rospected
in all the new camps in the West. in fact
and his many friends here will be glad to
know that success has come at last after
so many years diligent work in pursuit
OF it. ~
HE SOUGHT IN
with Campbell and Levy who struck the va.
vapal county mines referred to intheT Tribune |
extract about five years ago, when he was
in that region Of Arizona. He went down |
there a twelvemonth ago, where he assisted
in the development Of the mines and re-
turned to Butte two months ago. |
This morning he leaves for Salt Lake |
City in obedience to q summons from his |
partners who are there to 90 down and
close the contract with Professor Sebilott
that places $4,000 in his pocket. He
states that the mines are situated seventy.
not ninety miles from the A. & P. railroad
and twenty miles from the Colorado River.
ore is high grade and runs from 13 to
6O per cent in copper and from So to $40
in silver.
OTHER PROPERTIES REMAINING.
He and his partners retain six other
On the same vein as valuable as
those they have sold, which they will pro.
coed to develop with the means from the
sale to the Frenchsyndicate. tits therefore
question that in a short while he
and his partners will be.ranked among the
men OF the country, and no one /
who knows Mr.. Murphy win grudge him the
success he has legitimately earned by his
and endurance.
FIRST IN THE RUSH.
Among the mining e~xcitements that Mr..
has been among the first to
hare in are those in the Gunnison country !
n Colorado and Leadyille. He was one
IF the first locators OF the Tuscarora and
He was at Goose Creek
'ange in the northern part OF Nevada; at
he White Pine excitement when it started
Ind Phoebe. In fact, as he says, he had
respected in all the noted camps OF the
He struck a big prospect at Ruby, ]
but left there before he has
secured his title, and after he was
'one his partner sold it for $47, 900, Of
which he never got his share. Mr.. Murphy |,
as encountered many vicissitudes in his
areer, but henceforth his path OF life will
70 free from the anxieties attendant upon {
he searchers after earth's tire assures.