Arizona republican., 1903-07-13
CONFEDERATE MINING co
Col. Lee Crandall and Ills Novel
 Corporation, -

Colenel Lee Crandall Of Globe, presi- | pany. is in the city. having arrived | several days ago ts confer with his | son, Theodore Crandall, manager of | the company, and the secretary and | treasurer. Major F. w. Crabb of Union | town, Ky. the three being the execu- | tive board. Major Crabb. having never | seen the companys mine. he and Theo- l dore Crandall have left for that inter l esting place and Colonel Crandall awaits their return.
 The Confederate mine is in the Brown mining district a few miles from Sun flower. in the TontO country. President Crandall says he prefers to let his son who is in charge talk about the mine. but he is willing to talk about the com pany which he organized and which is the favorite of all his investments Colonel Crandall, however. is one of those genial gentleman who can talk about anything, for he has lived long and active life, and as he says, is deeply interested in everything that ever happened, is now going on or is ever likely to occur. His deepest soli- citude. he says. is to preserve the func- tions of the human temple he is now living in. for he is has a great deal to do before he leaves it for his real home in heaven where he expects to meet large number of people he has known here who have had sense enough
 to crawl out of the hell ns hu- man prejudice and distrust of ev-
 erything terrestrial as well as
 celestial. And in this he has been notably successful. for while bis H.
 good order and his heart is as young as in the days of curly-headed child hood. A friend told him recently that
 he was the happiest man in the world.
 He told him at once that he had aot made it strong enough, for he was tho happiest man in the universe.
 Colonel Crandall was born in Louisi- ana, was in the legislature before the
 war and voted against secession. But after his state went out he went with il at the head of a regiment, became | the pet of General StonewalI Jackson and the friend of all the confederate | leaders and. as he says, fought four years to tear down the best govern ment there ever was, and is devotiEz the rest of his life to building it up 1 bigger and better than it ever was be- fore"
 i Since becoming interested in Arizona
 a few years ago he has been the means
 of directing much capital this way. and
 if his plans carry he will bring much more. He says he has been all over the | country and knows nearly everybody ! but has finally settled in Globe. which is the center of the world. and here
 after he will travel all over it from
 that headquarters He expects to make
 ten million dollars in the next ten years,
 then buy a palace car and steam yacht and take life easy.
 He is proud of his war record. as he ! may we'll be. and his veins are full of
 confederate blood. but he says that in
 cident is past and he has the satisfac- ton of knowing it was properly set
 tied. He also has the proud distinction l of being the first confederate officer to decorate a union soldiers grave, which incident occurred at the request of Kingsley post, G. A. R., in Boston in
 1875. Since then the mutual recogni- tion of the bravery and honest purpose
 of both sides in that sanguinary strug-
 gle have become generally recognized.
 though too much bitterness of feeling still exists, mOre'S the pity.
 | When Colonel CrandalI resolved to
 form a mining company he decided to
 make it a pension bureau for confeder-
 ate soldiers, assessing only the bene-
 fciaries. His first ruling, therefore, was that he would sell stock to no one
 but ex-confederates or their families
 and in the foTma ton of the company
 he selected jor Crabb, who served
 under him in the war, for secretary The latter said he knew nothing ebOut
 T mine. but would have to obey orders
 and so he accepted. Colonel Crandal , replied that he was not looking for a , miner but for an honest man, and he
 knows now that he has one. Every year Colonel Crandall attends the eX- confederate reunion, reports conditions to his stockholders, who he hopes at ar , early day will be realizing some pen. f sion money.
 ? Speaking of pensions he says he IS r strong on that point and if he were il l congress he would favor pensioning ev- 9 cry union soldier regardless. He says 9 there are none more deserving and | { is the best way to get the money bacl . among the people. Incidentally h' 9 came near going to congress once iron Q General Joe Wheeler's district. In fac : he thinks he would have gone if MT