Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-25
rnE FL TleRE MINE.

1On dl Cdndu6d ana RlOCJSZuIud the Mexican courts are grinding on litigation which involves the owner ship and right of possession to the Fl Tigre mine in the Moctezuma dis trict. When the end will come to this
 litigation there is no one able to even make a guess. Both sides seem to be confident of success at the end of the lawing, but neither can see the finish. In the meantime the mine is
 practically idle. while many thou sands have been spent by both sides to the controversy, with every pros
 pect of many more thousands being required for courts and lawyers be- fore a final determination may be ex- pected. The present cases on trial
 are before the initial courts, and whatever decisions may be reached at Cananea or Moctezuma will not stop the flow of money into the judicial mill.
 This paper has not been able to ap- prove of the manner in which NIT. Graham secured possession of the mine from the Kansas City parties; we believe it would have been better for Mir Graham had he pursued an other course to right any grievance he may have had against his former associates in the control of the mine But for the purposes of this article, that is neither here nor there. The Fl Tigre mine has been practically put out of business and it has re- suited in injury to the mining indus try in Sonora. Douglas has lost a large trade which formerly came there from the El Tigre mine and which must always come there because of it's location, no matter who owns it or who wins the present lawsuits.
 Recently there were rumors of al proposed settlement of the trouble, and there was a shifting of interests, several of the Ensenada people going over to the contentious of the Kansas City interests and disavowing the acts of Mir. Graham. But these actions seem to have brought the litigation no nearer an ending than was promised before, and the continual grind of the Mexican courts goes on just the same, promising to consume a very large portion of the value of the prop erty before final judgment is handed down from the highest tribunal in the City Of Mexico.
 It would seem that all parties in terested in the Fl Tigre mine would pause in contemplation Of the enor- nous expense of the higher courts when the amount expended in the lower tribunals is taken into account and contemplate what could be saved by a settlement of i,ie controversy by some less expens. se methoi.
 The mine has a reputation of being worth a good sum of money, from the work already done on it, but it will have to be a record-breaking producer if it will justify fighting for it forever in the slow going courts of Mexico.
 The idIeness of the Fl Tigre mine is hurting Douglas, and it is hurting every man who is in any way inter ested in the mine, and it would be joyous news to this city if a speedy ending of this trouble could be and the work of the mine re- sumed with it's important trade for merchants at Douglas. During the time when the Fl Tigre was working full force every train from Sonora brought some one from that camp with money to spend in Douglas.
 It will take a long time for the Fl Tigre to recover what it has already spent in litigation, for whoever wins it, and it is to be regretted that some settlement cannot be reached without further waste of money.