The San Francisco call., 1897-09-11
CAPTAIN HALLS
CLEVER TRICK
Duped the Members of the
Santa Rosalia Bay Mining
Company.
By Giving Them a Fictitious
Location of a Mine he Had
Discovered.
Barclay Henley and Other Prominent
San Franciscans Largely Inter
ested in the Company.

Quite sensation was caused in mining
circles on the 18th ult., when Captain a.
W. Hall of East Oakland resigned from
the Santa Rosalia Bay Mining Company.
No reason was given by the captain at
the time for the res gnation, and the
mem bcrs of the company were at a loss to
understand the meaning OF his act.
In the latter part OF 1895 Hall. while
travelling overland by burro for the pur-
pose of relocating a copper and silver
mine that he had located IN Mexico in
1890, accidentally discovered gold mine
in Lower California, in the vicinity OF
Palm Springs.
The dirt, when assayed in this City,
panned out 133 IA ounces to the ton.
Hall i'm M ediate,y informed several busi-
ness and professional men of his valuable
| find, and the Santa Rosalia Bay Mining
| Company was organized and lncorpor-
ated, and the following officers elected:
| Barclay Henley. president; G. B. Hender.
son, secretary; Mr.. Nolan, treasurer, and
Z. a. Macon ber. general manager.
Hall had informed the company, of
which he was a mem Der, that the mine
was in the vicinity OF Santa Rosalia Bay,
| Lower California. A capital stock OF
| 100000 was issued, and Hall was given
one. third of it. His share was afterward
reduced to one-ifth of the stock.
| Upon learning that bis share had been
reduced Hall resigned.
He organized another company of promi-
nent men, both OF this City and Oakland,
for the purpose of working the mine.
| The new company advanced sufficient
| money with which to fit out Halls twenty
| ton schooner Grace for an ocean voyage.
An abundance of supplies was put on
| board and a large amount OF mining
| machinery.
On Sunday morning, the 18th ult., at
| day break, the Grace, under command of
| Hail. sailed for Lower California, where
| Hairs mine is located.
| The vessel was fitted up In Oakland
| Creek, and the work was so secretly and
| quietly done that the members of the
| original Santa Rosalia Bay Mining Com
| pany were not cognizant of the fact that
the Grace had sailed until so informed by
a CALL reporter this morning.
| 1t now develops that Hall gave the
original com pany fictitious location of
his mineral claim, which is said to be
about 300 miles from Santa Rosalia Bay.
Hall wa. seen just before he sailed and
said: II have duped Macomber and that
crowd. l gave them a fictitious location
of my mine. because l knew in the first
instance that they would never do any
thing toward working it. They had the
matter in hand for three months and
never oAO tOHdIO the
claim.
Furthermore, l understand that they
state they do not know why I resigned.
The reason was because they first in
formed me that the capital stock was to
be $50, 00C and gave me one-third of it.
My share was then reduced to one fifth,
and when l learned that the stock was
$100 900, which would give me only a
tenth share, severed my connection with
the company.
They can never fit out schooner in
time to follow me and I've got long
start on them. Anyway, they could never
find the mine. will sail at hoodtide in
the morning"
Barclay HenIey stated this morn
ing as follows: Il was inclined to doubt
tie mans story from the very beginning,
but as Mr. Macon Der had so mu ch con-
toence in him [ joined the com pany. We
had arrangements made to work Halls
mine on a very large scale, and when he
resigned we resolved to find the claim
from the location he gave US, but we did
not until to-day know that we had been
duped."