Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-02-29
Interesting Experiences-Battles
Won, Yet Lost.

Interesting Experiences-Battles
Won, Yet Lost.
In the strange dramas of individual
human life, no more weird experiences
are encountered than in the mining pur-
suit of gold and silver; these metallic
gods, to which the world bows low and
are The "open sesame" to the favors OF
gllded society.
Fortune and misfortune, alterps sicily
wait upon some persons, more than otn-
ere, aud among them an old friend OF
mine, known to but f-w in this country,
but who has done much in the past to
aid Arizona's mining interests, stands
pre-eminent.
IaIluds to Mr.. Walton Townsend, OF
Montana, Idaho, Cariboo, Chill, Callfor-
MA and now of New York, whose usual
business is that of dealer IN art pic.
lures, and who has long been an agent
OF the graf American painter, Bier
stsdt; but who can never rest contented
with wooing art, or disposing Of her TO
advantage, but ever is seeking the favor
of The tickle Goddess of Mining; and yet
when even apparently sure 10 embrace
her she ever eludes his grasp and a suit
or usually less worthy gets away with
her.
Take the Bisbee Copper Queen for
instance, estimated today ss worth mill
IONS; my! what a jade she has been to
hIm,-"in tie days of old, the days of
gold, and The days of silver, white and
brigbt,-not or forty-Diae but seventy :
nine," when cheerful Tom bstone sang
roudelay, rolled roulette and shouted
keno, partner OF bis. Captain Reilly,
aided by him and backed by ms frIeu DE,
came 10 ArIzcDa, looking for luck il
INNING ventures He Came across the
Copper Queen. then prom elDg but W.
proved property, sort OF Cinderaila,
ana be bonded 1t for $4,000. l was then
10 San Francisco, and saw the littl
cigar box in which Captain Reilly pack
ed around his specimens on bis return.
The pro- erty WAS placed, developments
ana ultimately much VAS done
ow Dg to the skill and ability Of the
Is illams Bros. and others, and she
-tahos TO-DAY an almost peerless Copper
Q Ieen. But wnere did my friend Town
send laho? Why, on MS tack, of course;
justly emitted to about half the proper
~, when II had become worth million,
after two years Of l. gal battle with his
partner, who had gone back on him, ig-
noreo, and tried to freeze him out. he
won his suit In judgment for $500, 900;
but had lost the battle, for his partner
mad provided for contingencies, the law
yers had to be well compensated. and
tie shell Of an altogether insufficient
com pensstion, was all that was gained
by him.
He became also interested in the
Miami mine and mill, the Townsend
mlne, ETC., of the Globe mining district,
add the Austerlilz mining group of Orc
Banco, his repres, NATIVE, Mr.. Aug
ut Oerre, who has sInce made fortuue
the sale of the Boleo copper mines of
Mexico to French partiee, the friends
of, and introduced to him by the g. me
child Of au Implsh destiny, Walton
ToSnse. d.
And rs far, too, as he was concerned,
and ne was the principal aud prime NOV
or, the Austnrlitz sun declined, unlike
the days of Napoleon, to ri upon bim,
and be became chilled by the results IF
a mill put up for it, miles away, aud the
IN ne it eff utterly uudeveloped, except
or b few holes Oh the ore Groupings in
which it might be possible to bury a
cat, provided the Cat Was not too large;
but the treasures themselves, in the
deeps below, we're left for he zdvent of
Mr.. RIghtDan. Then 10 Orc Blanco
d su Game the Mammoth or Blanc Derre
n up-passing to the EsperaDza, and
more recently the "Old Glory" Mr.
Townsend, If course, having GO. left
on the shuttle where by the by. the Old
Glory company appears TO be at present
themselves.
Then comes the General DeitZler COM
pqny, IN which he was also largely IN
tereeted, and just IS It seemed hat the
mines We're going to be put on q paying
basis, for they are fneloc king I'd me ST
promising patented mines, Genera
DietZler was brown from bis buggy and
killed, but a rev company, the Franco
American, has EN- lately formed to
work them and will doubtless resliz-
the usual handsome, ultimate results.
where Townsend leads the way, or IL in
1T the birth. for he rOves apparently q
mascot to nearly all whn come after
bin, and mines here be has been IN
terested are the proper thing~ for fatal
I is 10 invest IN. as they mostly prove
ultimate bnnanZas, as for instance the
amer, Id no, the Granite Mountain,
Montana, Copper Q cen, Arizona. etc.
10 each of which be was mixed I'D With
heir early hisiorIe and In due cou 81
more or IL s stoo upon his head; so W.
safely assume that the us,erlitz. Deitz-
Ter Old Glory mines are born t
b ocm when summer comes, and the
right gardeners get around.
This brief .ketch will become too
long, if start in to tell it all, so will stop
after RETIRING to my friends adventur-
ers in Chi !; the nitrate fields. of course.
and equally OF course he Is at present 10
The guano Having obtained large in
teres's In some nitrate fields and also
rearly financially into bed with Col
North, the trRte king. and every thing
being 10 shape to set sail to the harbor
or fortune, just as the fair winds for
real'zallon sprang up, IN! and behold.
wa between Chill and Peru, the port
OF lqulqui blockadsd and everybody at
war by the time War was over, things
re badly mixed FIR Uncle Towns nd,
who. IN the words II the great Confu-
ciua. found himself top-sida galop, but
he is not the man 20 stay that way; he
never gives in but hange on TIGHTER to
fate and business thai enapping turtle.
end In the fortunes and misfortnncs OF
war his good dav should again be- COM
ing. and battles won yet seemingly lost
may prove true victories, wEilst fortune
favors the brave. A. Fl. N.
jimmy Brown has taken charge OF
the opera house saloon and stands ready