Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-05
The Lone Pine Mine Mine and the Ari- zona, Eastern-CIifford En-
 tanglements.

We understand that the complica- tions surrounding the Lone Pine and the Arizona, Eastern and Montana Co. are to he cleared up by a reorganiza- ton committee, and that the costly machinery now upon the ground is to be erected and the mine operated with large force of men. For nearly year this sterling property has been comparatively idle, when, had it been worked, the product would have ma terially increased the copper output of this county.
 Last September the editor of the Journal-Miner visited the Lone Pine while it was under operation by the CliffOrds, who then held the property. There was ore every where, men were perched upon hastily set stulls pick ing away at the rich ore, shafts and winzes were being sunk, six ore teams were engaged in hauling the ore to the Arizona Eastern shelter and there was an air of prosperity A few days after the company became involved in a quarrel with Mir. Clifford, who was removed as manager of the shelter, and when that gentleman left for the east complete transformation took place, work stopped, the shelter had only spasmodic existence and where the best mining talent in the territory was employed under the Clifford re- gime, their places were filled with men who were complete failures.
 Effort was made to again obtain the services of Mir. Clifford, who has pro ven to be one of the best miners in America, but he refused to ever again become an official of the company.
 For year this snarl among the di- rectors ard fiscal agents has been con- tinued, to the detriment of the stock holders and to Yavapai county. Last August matters were thrown into more confusion, by Mrs. Clifford filing an agreement for record with the Ari- zona, Eastern and Montana Co. whereby that company acknowledged that they had not paid for the Lone Pine and that in event that they did not meet the balance duelS60,000 that the property should revert to Mrs. Clifford, who recently, through Hern- don & Norris, attorneys of this city, filed suit in lis pendens for full recov- cry.
 All of this is hard on the stock holders, and it is claimed that nearly every mine owned by the company in Yavapai county will be affected.
 Mir. Clifford, who is now in Arizona, looking after his interests in the Great Belcher mine, was questioned as to the probable outcome of these com plicatiOns, and he stated that while Mrs. Clifford was friendly to the stockholders and was willing to work with them on a reorganization, that the deed to the Lone Pine had been obtained from her by fraud and gene ral interpretations, and that those responsible for the present entangle- ments had falsified the facts to such a degree that nothing short of a full court investigation would satisfy Mrs. Clifford. He thought the plan of re- organization a good thing, and that if it was based upon lines of equity he would join. Upon being asked if he would again accept the management of the mine, he replied; Not for S20,OO0 a year, with the present bunch of old grannies in charge. I have been taught to work mines in the west. and not in New York"
 In the mean time the miners of this section want developments which it is hoped will result in the opening of the mine.