The copper era., 1905-09-28
Our Business is increasing V6rQ rapidly. W6 attribute it to the fact that W6 are
 the OnIu National Bank in Graham County
Unsurpassed Services Offered"

many yards across. 1t is hls opinion
 that the company. will get excellent
 results from the process and will clean up a nice little sum.
 J. J. Rath, one of the most prom
 inent citizens of Cochise county, was
 instantly killed by the accidental
 discharge of a shot gun one day last
 week. He was riding in a wagon
 with some friends, with the muzzle of the gun in his lap. The jar of the
 wagon caused the hammer to strike and one charge lodged in his neck. Deceased was a justice of the peace at the time of his death, and had been residing in the county fifteen years. For many years he was tele- graph operator at Bowie, afterwards station and express agent at Cochise. He later entered politics and became interested in mines. It was during his incumbency as agent of Cochise that the famous Alvord and Stiles train robbery took place, and it was through his efforts that the entire gang was captured. Ten years ago he was married to Miss Lucy Olney of Solomonville, daughter of Hon. George Olney Of Stafford. Mrs. Rath and three children survive him.
 A five thousand dollar nugget is rather an unusual thing for man to he -arrvi,,or round ,.,;+l, b;,,, o,-o,, ;,, this land of rich mineral wealth but it was just that sort of a nugget that George B. Upton had secreted upon, or around, or near, his person few days ago while he journeyed from Wickenburg to Prescott, where he put it safely away in the Prescott National bank There are nuggets and nuggets. Some of them are found ready made and are always a source of great interest to the curious but in these parts the made to order kind is equally as pleasing when the material is of the proper fineness, and it was a made to order nugget, more properly called brick, that MT. Upton turned over to Cashier R. N. Fredericks. It was the product of the five stamp mill that MT. Upton has been running on the Orc Grande mine for months past and though it is by no means the first output of his little goldbrick factory, it was the first brick ac- cording to a Prescott paper to find its way into Prescott from that mine.
 The Quartzite district, Yuma county, is the scene of an alleged big mining fake which is now being aired in the courts of this territory. The company involved is the Amal- gamated Gold Mines Co. in the hands of receiver. The man who claims to have been gold bricked is H. J. Beemer, a multimillionaire of New York and former president of the company. He claims that he en- tered into a contract with O. A. Pease of Quartzite by which he was to pay S2, 2,5OO,O ,OOO for some mining property in that district. He claims that as the mines yielded he was to make payments and that in good faith ne put in $500, ,00O on machinery and development and he paid Pease personally S75,OO0. Then Beemer all leges that he found out that he had been "taken in" and that the prop erty was worthless. He accuses his lawyer. S. s. Parks, of Chicago. whom he was paying $500 month of being q confederate of Pease in the alleged fraud. The case is still dragging its length through the maze of litigation.