Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-29
ANCIENT HISTORY OF HE BULLY BUENO First StdmR NH Brought 10 YaVapai County Vas Hauled
 by Team From Kansas

resumed his former position as man ager of the Whitney Car Wheel works. Mr. Helme was a brother of Isaac, Helme, who was an old and re- spected resident of Prescott.
 A gentleman by the name of Curtis was sent out to look after the Phila- delPhia Peope's Interests, but the property was finally turned over to Nlckroy again, who after making an investigation and obtaining what ev- idence could be gathered regarding the destruction of the mill, decided to put in a claim against the United Sdate3 government for damages caus- ed by the Indians He was finally awarded $40O 600 by the claim de. Iartment at Washington. but Con- gresS has never voted the apprupria- ton, and the money has never been paid.
 One thing that strengthened Wick roy's case in his application for dam. ages in the Bully Bueno matter was the continual destruction of the white II ans property, and the many mur- ders that were constantly committed by the Apaches in those days. It W as. just about the time of the firing of the mill that two men named liar. vey Twadell and Gus Swain, who were ere hunting on the Hassayampa, were attacked and Twadeli was Killed by an Indian arrow. He lived eight or nine days. and when he died Swain cut the body open and found the flint arrow head embedded in the heart. The fact that TwadeIl lived so long in that condition seems almost in- credible.
 The II1ifans talso killed Swain about year afterwards near Woinut creek. Such things as this went on until General Crook, the great Indian fighter, succeeded in gathering the murderous reds together and secur- ing them upon the reservation, a feat which took from 1872 to 1874 to accomplish.
 In 1882 Vickroy came out here to look after the mine, which he had held on to for fifteen years, and went from here to Denver. where he was taken sick and died.
 Marian E. Vickroy, his wife, con- tinued the fight for the s400,000 in- demnity allowed by the government, and spent a great deal of time in Washington endeavoring to get the claim ratified by Congress and the appropriation made. A few years ago Mrs. V1ckroy returned to- Pres colt in connection with the Bully Bueno business, and while out driv- ing the team ran away in the vicinity of Thumb Butte. and Mrs. Vickroy was thrown from the buggy and kill ed. Sometime before her death Uncle Jimmy More, who is well known to ithe old ;gasidents of Prescott, be- lieving the property had been aban- doned, relocated it, and kept up as sessment work for several years. He finally made application for U. 5. patent, but after going through con- siderable part of the red tape proceed ings required in such matters. shis application was finally returned to the U. $. land office at Prescott for a, re-hearing. Since then other par ties have relocated and are in pos 1 session of the old Bully Bueno. It is 1 understoOds but the title to the prop erty is Tn such a complicated state | that it is hard to tell who will ulti- | mately become entitled to it. The | engine that was brought across the ! plains in 1865, and installed at the mine, was standing in Clark 6 Adams l old saw mill by the railroad track in north Prescott. The old upright boil. CTS with the flues removed were utiI- | ized as tanks at the Empire mill on | Groom creek.
 The relation of the unenviable his | tory of this old mining venture is | only a repetition of what many east i eTn tenderfoOt companies have done | in the way of mining operations in
 this western country in the past. ! Comparatively little real development has eyer been done on the Bully
 Bueno to this day. There is a cross-
 cut tunnel about 400 feet long, but it
 lacks 150 to 200 feet of tapping the
 ledge. There are a couple of shafts
 which are not down any considerable
 depth, and still this company spent
 more than half a million dollars, most
 of it on a mill and it's incumbent ex-
 penses before they knew whether
 there was a mine with ore enough
 in it to justify the enormous expend-
 iture or not. There is no doubt that
 upon proper development the old Bull
 ly Bueno could be made a great pro-
 ducer, judging by the showing made
 in it's surface workings. and the re-
 suit achieved by others who hava
 gone to work in correct and syste-
 matic way on ether properties of the
 same character in the county. The operations of this outfit never did
 the country any particular good.