Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-03
HUBBARD $ FATHER IS OWNER OF RICH
 GROUND
Father of BiSbee Undertaken Strikes It Rich on Kan
 Sas Farm.

A Kansas exchange has the follow ing 10 say about a strike of rich ore on the farm of Captain Hubbard. in Cherokee county, Kansas. Captain Hubbard is father of Walter Hubbard. prominent in Bisbee business circles and now sojourning in the East with Mrs. Hubbard:
 Cherokee county people will all be pleased to hear of the good luck of Captain Hubbard. whose farm near Badger proves to be underlaid with rich mineral which was developed by Itrilling last Saturday.
 Tn all probability the drill strike made Saturday by MT. Hubbard and son has created more excitement in lthe Missouri-Kansas mining district than any strike made in recent months and is all the more valuable to the district because the mineral produc- in area of the Badger and Peacock camps is greatly extended. The strike Is almost as rich as that made a few weeks ago by Corbin & Co.,, on land situated north of Peacock and was found at much shaliower depth. fin fact the ore was found close enough to the surface to insure Badgers future as poor mans camp. The miners all ready realize this and since Saturday land and first lease owners in that vicinity lave received scores of appli- tccJions for leases.
 The Hubbard land, on which the drill strike in question was made. is situated immediately south of the
 Micdlesex land on which are located
 the best mines of the Badger camp, and the strike was made within no feet of the south line of that tract
 For the last few years MT. Hubbard
 has refused to lease out his tract but
 recently began prospecting for him self and was successful in finding ore
 in the first hole put down. The ore
 vas found at the shallow depth of 40 feet and continued to 8 feet Parties twho have visited the strike and who are usually conservative in their esti- mates, state the drill cuttings will run at least 25 per cent in ore. This lis much richer than the deposits worked in the Badger mines and the
 ore is also found 20 feet nearer the isuIface than in the Badger mines. At the mines situated about a mile | and a half north of the new strike the \ ore level is between 250 and 290 feet
 From the very nature of the ore de- posits at Badger and Peacock the mines at those places now produce
 more ore than any other camp in the IdistTict, in proportion to the number iof mills. but it now appears that the lEew strike will cause a vast amount
 of new prospect work and that dis
 tr;ct will enjoy greater boom than
 ever before
 "lt is reported on good authority Ithat immediately after the new strike
 Twas made DeGraff Brothers offered
 Mir Hubbard cash price of s6S,000
 for his 260-acre farm, but the offer
 was refused. DeGraff Brothers own Iseyeral hundred acres of land adjoin- ling the Middlesex land on the south.
 "As a result of the immensely rich ,drill strike just made on the J. c.
 Hubbard land at Badger, land values
 in that vicinity have taken another upward course and many who. a few ImoEths ago. refused to buy at price
 of s1o0 per acre would gladly pay s250 If they could secure the desired piece lof land"
 The prevalent ere in the Badger dis Itrict is lead.