Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-25
Charley Strong Steers Shat tuck, Overlook and Patti
 son to Graphite Find.
FIND DISCOVERED
 FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.
Bisbee Capitalists Go Twenty Miles into Chiricahuas From
 San Simon in Search of An-
 thracite, But Don't Get It.

Worn out as a result of their trip, their confidence in Charley Strong as discoverer of coal beds shaken, l.. tC. Shattuck, L. G. Overlook and Su- perintendent B NJ. Pattison, of the Shattuck-Arizona, returned to Bisbee yesterday morning, each taking an oath that they will feloniously assault the next man who says coal to either of them.
 Getting out of Bisbee as secretly as possible, the trio was taken under the protecting wing of Strong, who had on several occasions taken each of them into a back room to whisper the details of his glowing find of an- | thracite coal in quantities that would stagger a lightning calculator. Going to San Simon, on the South ern Pacific road, to which point they had telegraphed ahead to have the l lightest conveyances ands swiftest horses ready for them, Strong, Shat tuck, Overlook and Pattison drove to ! the southward twenty miles into the Chiricahuas.
 Deserting their wagon when it could be taken no further, Shattuck and Overlook, both of whom are in excel lent condition for long mountain climbs, tfeked into the hills for about two miles, and then they reached
 Strong's wonderful find.
 But Strong's companions by no
 means went into virgin territory.
 They went to "coal field" that has
 been visited by almost every mining
 man in the county. Those who have
 not been there have had the pleasure
 of putting up the expenses for others
 to go in their interests.
 In other words, Strong had piloted the friends he was going to let in on
 a good thing to "a coal discovery that
 was made not less than fifteen years ago, and on which several thousand
 dollars has been expended by various exploiters in development work.
 No sooner did Superintendent Patti
 son have a look at Strong's coal than he pronounced it form of graphite To make certain that he was not mis taken, Shattuck and Overlook each took large chunk of the stuff and at
 tempted to make it burn. The result
 was remark from Shattuck that il
 might be suitable for lining fireplaces
 To satisfy Strong not to pass too
 hasty judgment, Pattison, Shattucl . and Overlook looked the district over 1 thoroughly, but they found no better indications of coal than at the poin . to which Strong first guided them.
 Disappointed that they had no found source from which to suppl, all the Southwest with fuel, Strong : Shattuck, Pattison and Overlook los
 no time getting back to their wagon
 They returned to San Simon ever |. more hastily than when they had lief I s- -I TN sh1f
 monument around half a hundred coa claims.
 Whether Strong has the best jok, on his three companions or they hav' : it on him is a matter of conjecture l Each is of the opinion that the othe , fellow was the worst taken in.
 The coal field to which the part went was found about fifteen year ? ago by an EngIishman He hiret - men and run a tunnel not less thai
 100 feet under the mountain. Abou
 this time be began to send sample ) of the coal to different assay offices - each returning the same answer-tha f it was not even a forerunner of coal . but poor grade of graphite.
 Not satisfied with his first assays the Englishman sent more of them t F distant points, some going to England - Germany and France, where he hs, chemists make a thorough analyst!
 After getting the opinion of half hundred experts he gave up in di' 1 gust.
 l Every few years the coal field is rt l. discovered. Just enough work :. done at these periods to keep, grea U deal of ground open, which causes tn e next fellow who comes along to grol
 delighted over the bonanza he ha Q discovered.
 In Strong's behalf it should be sta , ed that he had not seen the coal fiel d before he went there with his Bisbe }, friends. He was led to believe ther if were millions to be made out of th proposition by prospector, who Y now believed to have been looking fc e a piece of easy money. n T