Bisbee daily review., 1904-09-08
MaIaChite Group
 Hard Luck Story
BROWN TELLS OF VlClSSiTUDES WHICH HAVE FILLED ITS
 SAILS,
Likewise Have His Own Been Puffed
 By the Contrary critter-DifficuIties Starting on Short Peanut Crop and
 Extending to Bisbeeite's Long Thirst.

Judge Brown is not widely noted as humorist. The judicial dignity re- quired in the conduct of his legal grist mill does not allow of the wide dissen- ination ot any such fame. Neverthe less tine Judge has fat streak of the article de humor cutting his formation from end to end A sample bunch from this streak reposes in the desk of the magistrate and testiies abundant iy to it's richness. It is in the shape of a description of the Malachite Min ing Group of four claims Occasional ly it omes from its resting place for the edification of some particularly fa- vored visitor at the court. Hearing is absolutely necessary to full appreci- ation of the merits of the production. Publication for the benefit of the pub lie at large, the modesty of the judge absolutely forbids. There is, how ever, no bar to quotation marks on the remarks of His Honor following the reading of the prospectus of the Mala- chite. They run something like the following:
 You see. had great expectations from this Malachite proposition. In fact, I had 9 deal all fixed up a year ago, which. had it gone through, would have netted me about a million. l had a Georgia man here looking at the property. He was much pleased with it. and thought he could raise S75.000 spot cash to take it in. About the time the deal was closing he re- marked to me that the difference be- tween the price of peanuts in the Georgia fields and the wholesale price per sack here was about s156. In- stantly it ocurred to me that here was the great opportunity of a life time I at once made him a proposition to take payment for the Malachite in pea nuts at the market price in the Geor- gia fields. s75,0O0 worth He went back to Georgia in a hurry, confident that he could make the thing stick. But when he got there he found short crop, and not enough peanuts in the state to raise the lump amount neces- sary. Since then things have been practically dead on the Malachite. She refuses to recover from the peanut blow''
 Yes" continued the judge. reflect lively. '-I did a lot of work on that Malachite Group and spent much mon- ey. You want 10 understand that the property is located in sandy soil. in fact, in a sand hill. The first assess ment work I did there was a costly piece of business. Five men worked on a shaft in the sand hill, for you see in view of the character of the ground it was necessary to timber right along. Handling the sand was about like handling water. and the crew was kept jumping at the work of bailing out the hole and making about four inches headway a day on depth. The boys finally came in. however, and reported that they had made the thirty feet they had been hired to sink. The next day I went out to the shaft to measure up In the night there mad been a wind storm. and when I struck the place, where the shaft ought tc have been the ground was as free from holes as if a shovel had never beer put in it.
 Then we hunted up a boulder or the hill and started to make our as sessment hole in it. It was stralgh iron. that boulder was, and defied more than an inch or two of headway day At last. however, about IS feet down We struck arteSlan water III Ihe lhlhs and were flooded out. Now the res of this is simply to demonstrate tnf positive contrariness of the Malacnlee When the water got away with us sent to San Francisco for expensive pumping machinery. It was delivere' here and hauled out to the property Well. sir, that very night along com a thirsty tarrie- on his way hom' from a week with torchlight proces sions down his throat in Bisbee. an' drank every blooming bit of wate there was in that shaft. Now, wha do you think of that for hard luck
 Succeeding chapters of this interest ing mining narrative may be had o application to the Judge. when | need of a restorative drop in and tr bunch of the goods.
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