Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-07
J. E. DUNCAN TELLS OF
 DISCOVERY 0F WARREN
JACK DUNN THE FIRST MAN ON
 THE GROUND.
Declares That George Warren Came to the District Some Time Later, After Being Informed by Dunn of His Findings Here.

I | His Findings Here.
 James F. Duncan of Tombstone has
 written the following in the Los An. geles Examiner in regard to the first
 discoverer of Bisbee, in contradiction
 to an article that recently appeared
 in that paper. The article is interest ing reading and gives the early his
 tory of Arizona's famous copper coun- try. The article is as follows:
 w. R. Hearst, Editor Examiner" |"
 Dear Sir-I observed in the issue of
 the Examiner" of Jan. goth what pur-
 ported to be an article on the discov- i cry of Warren Mining District. Evi-
 dently the party who wrote the article obtained it from hearsay and from iparties who knew nothing about it.
 The true facts in regard to the dis
 covery of what is familiarly known as ''Warren's Camp" are as follows: In the year 1877, Lieutenant Fucker, with a detachment of U. S. coldiers from Fort Bowie was scouting the country on the lookout for renegade Apaches. A scout by the name of Jack Dunn, employed by the govern ment, was leading the party and ac- companying it was a citizen by the name of Tad Burns.
 The purpose of Jack Dunn in lead
 ing the party into the canyon of the
 Mule mountains was to obtain water which they found about a mile down from the camp where the present town of Bisbee was started. The spring they named Iron Springs as there were large quantities of iron ore all along the canyon in close proX1mi- | ty to the spring, the water of which vas not fit to drink. Jack Dunn started up the canyon which is now known as Tombstone canyon, and af- ter travelling a mile found a spring of excellent water at the base of what i is now known as Castle Rock.
 In returning to the Iron Springs he traced his way back on the north side of the main gulch and there came to
 large rock standing about cen feet
 out of the ground fine grade of car
 bonate of copper ore. On his return to the Iron Springs he informed Lieu tenant Fucker, of his discovery of water and also of his discovery of mineral and showed him sample of
 the ore. The consequence was Lieu1 tenant Fucker, Jack Dunn and Tad
 Burns located then what has always be en known as the Fucker mining claims.
 After going back to Bowie, sometime
 afterwards, George Warren who also was a government scout, made his ap- !
 Mexico, and Jack Dunn having some Acquaintance with him made known
 his find in the Mule Mountains, and
 told him of making the location of the Fucker claim. After talking matters ] oTer, Warren agreed if Dunn would stake him he would go into the Mule | mountains and make some locations and divide the find whatever it might be. Warren made the following To-
 cations: Copper King, Copper Queen, Hendricks, Atlanta, Belle Isle and Wade Hampton mining claims.
 After doing this, instead of going back to Fort Bowie to 'ee Dunn, he made his way to Tucson, and there met D. B. Ray and Warner Buck. With these men he returned to the Mule
 IT curtains in 1878 and established their camp (handy to the spring Jack
 Dunn discovered in 1S77) and built
 small furnace, using hand bellows,
 and smelted some ore taken from the Hendrick mine, which when made in | n.att they shipped to New York. AS
 far as these men were concerned the
 enterprise proved to be failure. | The Mule mountains at that time were in Pima county and in 1881 the county of Cochise was formed from | Pima county by the act of the Elev- enth Legislature. By examining the | transcribed records of Pima county, now in the office of the county record
 CT at Tombstone, relating to Cochise county, the notice of the location of the Fucker claim can bee seen.
 The foregoing statement have from Jack Dunn and George Warren, ard it is not second-handed or manu- factured in any individuals interest,
 but if there is any honor due to any
 person for the discovery of ore, and
 of the camp, give the honor to where | it justly belongs. Jack Dunn at that time was considered a justly reliable man, by all who knew him. I make
 this statement in the cause of justice. Yours Respectfully,
 JAMES F. DUNCAN.