Graham guardian., 1907-08-30
AUGUST 80, 1907,
THE TRIUMPH TUNNEL FAKE

an influential journal published at
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Aug.
18th, takes extended notice of The
GUARDIANS recent exposure of the
Thomas McEnery Triumph Tunnel
Site fraud. The writer speaks in
highly complimentary terms OF
our puncturing of that bubble, and
shows wherein McEnery's claims
are proven TO be absurd and un-
founded to ridiculous degree.
We reproduce the Mining Invest
or's article entire, because it indi
Gates the widespread interest felt
in Arizon's mines and the danger
that mcnaces this great industry
from Just such fraudulent COM
panies as the Triumph Tunnel Site. :.
Fake mining schemes are the bane
of legitimate mining, and it is the
duty of all interested to spread far
and wide the information that the
McEnery and other such unfound
ed and fraudulent companies are
dangerous and should be avoided:
"THE GRAHAM GUARDIAN of SAT,
ford, Graham county, Arizona,
should be added TO the honor roll
of publications in mining fields
which understand their duty to
their readers and to Legitimate
mining. In an issue of that paper
published o number of weeks ago,
but which has only recently been
brought to our attention, there is
amost commendable exposure of
the misstatements in prospectus
issued by the Triumph Tunnel Site
company of which Thomas Nc
Emery is president. We commend
particularly the method adopted
by the GRAHAM GUARDIAN. 1t is
an easy matter to critIcise in gen.
eral terms and to cast discredit on
a mining proposition by vague in
situations and unsupported charges
An infant is able to knock over
block house before be is capable
of putting one block on another.
There is absolutely no credit IN
indiscriminate "knocking" and IN
wild beating in the air which we
constantly see INDUCED in by those
who believe it is popular thing
to do. To come down to facts
and specifications and proofs is a
very different matter, and is the
sort of work that counts. The
GRAHAM GUARDIAN in the article
referred to quotes extensively from
the prospectus Of the Triumph
Tunnel Site company, and then
proceeds to point out exactly
wherein the statements IN the
prospectus misrepresent the actual
situation.
at is pointed out that the state,
ment in the company's prospectus
that the tunnel will cut the great
blind veins referred to, is simply
rank guess, as prospectors who
have searched the mountain for
ore declare that no ledge appears
in the direction that the tunnel is
running nearer than about five
miles from the present end of the
tunnel. The statement that their
copper prospects are second 10
none in Arizona, and that they
have copper in all forms is made
of whole cloth. Nothing but a
few small stringers have been cut
in tho tunnel. Their self. huxing
ores have yet to be found, The
prospectus says the hundred or
more veins cut by this tunnel vary
in width from to 800 feet. As a
matter of fact the company has
driven two tunnels neither Of
which is now in three hundred
feet; one lies directly above the
other. Neither shows anything
but q few stringers. The claim of
being able to develop thousands of
horsepower from water is fully as
untruthful as the balance. There
is but one creek from which water
can be taken to the Mammoth tun-
mel, Ash creek, and if all its waters
wero utilized probably would not
generate over two per cent of the
claim made. Another thing, this
this water was appropriated for
irrigation purposes and used for
farming about twenty-five years
ago, and has been so used contin-
ucusly ever since.
"ContInuing its case against the
company the Graham Guardian
SAYS that Thomas McEnery's
statement that the properties of
the Mammoth Tunnel Site com.