Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-15

ally alive with bright yellow gold. It was by far the best specimen that has been seen taken from the mine.
 Speaking of the litigation which was instituted against the company by one of the original locators of the mine, Mir. Upton said that their an swer to the complaint would be filed today. Mir. Weisling, the man who brings this suit and who pleads ignor- ance as one of his causes of action, Mir. Upton says, was the one who in- terested him and his partner to take hold of the property. He says that Weisling located it in March, 1900, but failing to do his location work it became invalid. That he represented to him and Mir. Hatfield some time in October that the ground was vacant and subject to location. and the three of them located it jointly. Upton and Hatfield put up the money to do the location work, and afterwards paid Baxter x Smith of Wickenburg, S75000 for some sort of alleged title they held to the property. He says that Weisling worked in the mine while he and Mir. Hatfield were at Stanton so that really he had the ad- vantage over them so far as knowing what was being taken from the mine was concerned. He got Mir. Lamb in terested in the property and assigned the Weisling option to him and later Weisling executed deed to Lamb for all of his interest. the deed being placed in escrow. At the time this deed was taken up and the payment made, Lamb tried to get an extension of time, as the property had not then been developed sufficiently to make him especially anxious to take up the deed. This was, however, refused and payment was made according to stipulations of the escrow, and the deed was delivered to Lamb. Mir. Upton further says that Mir. Weisling took out the first rich ore encountered in the mine, and a sample now on ex- exhibition in H. P. Anewalt's office in Prescott was ta ken out by him, While of course this was encouraging nothing special was thought of it as it was supposed to be merely a pocket but Mir. Weisling, who Is an expert enced miner, was as capable of judg ing of its importance as his partners. The surface indications are all copper and it was not until quite a depth had been attained that the rich gold ore was found. He says that Weislins worked in the shaft and in the upper drift and cross cut of the mine, anC therefore had every facility for know ing more about its value than either he or Mir. Hatfield. who were at Stan ton much of the time. While timber ing the shaft, in cutting away thu dirt for the timbers, he says Weislins struck rich ore within six inches O the edge of the shaft. The allegation of ignorance, in view of all these fac on the part of Weisling, in his com plaint, are rather calculated to pro yoke a smile than otherwise, said NIT Upton, ''as he was in a position to b better posted than we were"
 Mir. Upton says that properties ad
 joining the Gro Grande, and owned by Albert Smith, Amer Childers anC Ed Guild, were recently bonded t John Llewelyn. of Los Angeles, fo S2O,000 But little work has beer done on the claims yet, and casl payment of only $500 was made, thu balance payable in year. The sur face indications are almost identica with those of the Gro Grande prop erty, and MT. Llewelyn has let a con tract for sinking loo feet to ascertain what depth will show up in thes claims.