Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-09

The original locator of two of tho most famous mines in the world Senator ClarRs United Verde in Ali zona and the Mollie Gibson silver mine in Colorado-.s in the city for q brief visit Leonard D. Sivyer. the wellknown mining engineer of Spokane. Wasr.. is the gentleman. MT Sivyer has just completed an examination of a mining property in Tolumne county for a syndicate of Los Angeles men and if his report is favorable. a large amount of Los Angeles capital will probably be invested in this. enc of the oldest mining sections of the state. | For nearly thirty years Mir Sivyer has practiced his profession of min | ing engineer throughout the western | portion of the United States. Mexico. ! British Columbia and Alaska He calls Spokane h.s home but he is a frequent visitor to Los Angeles and | during a considerable portion of the | year his family resides a. the Hotel 1 Mum on South Olive street
 Location of United Verde
 In 1875 MT Sivyer located the Le- 1, viathan claim. which afterward be- N-AN AAANANAS pA CNAAtilbl N.-di IA 0 rich holdings in the Arizona copper l belt. known today as the United Yer de. There were no railroads ip those 1 days nearer than Pueblo. Colo. the terminus of the Denver ana Rio Grande. cn one side. and the end of i the Southern Pacific at San Bernar- dino on the other. and though the out crop of the ledge near the Verde riy- CT looked promising il was not pos sible to ship ore that would run less than s200 per ton.
 In telling the story of the location of the famous property Mr Siyyer said; "l had been mining in Cobra do for several years and had q keen desire 10 do some prospecting in Ari- zona. where opportunity Was offered one day. I was acquainted with the officers of the Sixth L. s Cavalry and when they were ordered Co Ari- zona I went along We entered the Territory during a stormy perio5 of her career. but We experienced no trouble with the Indians. We finally reached Camp Verde then 42 miles from Prescott, and there parted with my military friends and started out on a prospecting trip with q German metallurgist named Frank Schulz. a miner named Joseph Drew
 We formed a close corporation. and after purchasing ar outfit We went into the Black Hills and established a permanent camp few miles west of the Rio Verde One Sunday morning early I was out after some horses when l ran across the cutcTop of what is now the United Verde mine A casua. examination proved conclusively to my mind that the ledge Conta.ne3 a vast amount Of copper ore, and I located claim calling it the Leviathan. Later Schulz and Drew located two claims adjoin- ing mine That was in November 1875. and al that time there was ab- solutely no signs Of any other loca- tiOns in that part of the country though I understand that it is claimed that locations were made there in 1873
 Didn't Krow its Value.
 "Of course We had no method of de- termining the value of our property and as i. was impossible 10 market the ore. we abantcned The claims when We left the country a short time later
  ex-GovernOr Lytle al the Worlds Fair that I learned the United Verde and Leviathan were the same. Mir. Lytle minutely described the location of the United Verde, and I saw Immediately that it was the same property abandoned IS years before.
 It's funny how a fellow will over look good things sometimes" unused -T- ] to the Arizona wilderness which has since produced millions for it's owner
 Located Nolie Gibson.
 NIT. Silver located eighty acres Of ground in the Aspen mining district in Colorado in 1880. which he after wards sold to the Mol!ie Gibson Min ing company. He remained in As pen enough to see tons Of native sil- yer hoisted from the ground which | made the Mollie Gibson ;he most ia nous silver mine the world
 Richard BOwles. BryOn Shear ar a. tOrney Of Aspen, and Henry Gillespie | owned a p.ece of property across the Rearing Fork from the Smugier. and | other producers. and in 1888 they or Fanized he Mollie Gibson Mining com l pony. Mir Sivyer h0d previously b. ] cated his eighty acres. and when the | silver craze came on in 1891 his prop e-tv was rurchased. The history Of the MOliie Gibson ! r7ine is without a parallel iu the min ing world An immense body of na. | tive silver was discovered and the | cr-i-e west vert wild The stock of | tho ccrrnany which originally sold for 1 q few cents per share jumped 10 SIP ~o- sha-e J J. Hagerman BOwles l ~~1 O+Nors made millions Cut If their | Ho'din0s "nd in very few years the corr~~rv distributed nearly 5000 900 f- ''--'o-1- to their stockholders.
 Then the silver panic cane on and .'-o o--n'-~= Of the mine were cut --arti~@''v in half. Th,- bodies of ---'-o -''va- did not hold out and a