Arizona republican., 1902-06-19
GEO. W. MAUK DEAD
A Pioneer on the Coast and a Highly
 Respected Citizen.

George w. Mauk died about o'clock yesterday morning at his residence, No. 435 North Sixth avenue. of heart dis ease. He has been in feeble health for the last year, though he was not con- fined to his bed till about three days ago. Mrs. Mauk was with him in his last hours, but their two sons were both absent. Fred, the oldest is in the east travelling for a firm in Battle Creek, Mich, and Sidney has been ill Bisbee for sometime. He was notifis.i by wire on Tuesday of his fathers serious illness, but too late for the train that day, so he cannot get here till this morning.
 MT. Mauk was about 65 years old and a native of Iowa. He was a typical western man, almost his whole life be- ing spent on the Pacific slope, where his energies have been employed in the promotion of large enterprises for the material welfare of the sections in which he has lived. To men of his un- doubted integrity, upright character and strict honesty is due the wonderful development of the west during the last fifty years. Fortune has at times dealt kindly with him during his career and again her frowns have rested heavily upon him. Both in Nevada and California he was once numbered among the well-to-do. if not the wealthy, and since coming to Arizona he has made some successes and other investments which resulted in the loss 1f hn lteat. of 1.e I,, the latter. though, it should be said to his great credit that had he accepted terms that are considered honest in the business world, he might have spent his latter days in luxury. But he rejected them, fearful that his own prosperity might work hardship on others equally interested, preferring to suffer reverses with his associates rather than | subject himself to the suspicion that he had connived in their ill-fortune. | MT. Mauk went across the plains from Iowa to Nevada, in 1S49 with his father and his two brothers, Charles H. | now a resident of Los Angeles, and | Frank. a resident of Watsonville. Cal | In Virginia City he was engaged for years in the hotel business, in which he was very prosperous. He was incl
 dentally engaged in mining with his brothers and O. F. Thornton, who now
 resides near the King of Arizona rline and who was always one of his great est friends and admirers. They located
 and opened up several properties that
 afterwards became big producing
 mines, and one of their properties they
 sold for s100,0OO.
 From Nevada MT. Mauk moved to
 Tuolumne county, California, and later
 to San Luis Obispo county. He was en- gagged there in the sheep business, in
 which he was eminently prosperous. i He also served that county two terms | as undersneriff and subsequently two ! terms as sheriff.
 l He came to Arizona in the early sos as a United States revenue collector. serving in that capacity here for four years and travelling all over the terri
 tory in a blackboard. From that time | to his death Phoenix has been his home the greater part of the time. Since living here. together with his brother Charles and O. r. Thornton. he pro- noted the DendorO townsite and irri-
 sation canal enterprise on the lower
 Gila. but the project failed of success
 merely through lack of capital. Later
 the same gentlemen promoted the South Gila canal enterprise, but it, too,
 proved too large an investment for
 their resources. During recent years Mir. Mauk has been engaged somewhat
 mining property in the Cave Creek dis