Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-18
DENNIS MAY, PIONEER,
 DIES IN PHOENIX
Lived in Congress and Once Owned Part of the Con-
 gross Mine
(Phoenix Republican,

DSHnas Hudy Ot congress, one UL i SiIg D1st zIl0wn ui1 timers iu Ine ter ritory, who once owned an interest in the Congress mine, died yesterday morning at the Sisters, hospital of | pneumonia. The remains were taken in charge by Mohn & Driscoll, wait ing word from his relatives, who are said to be a brother and sister in Buffalo. New York.
 Several old timers yesterday said i they knew Dennis May well and most of them agreed that he came to the territory as early as 1866, for ty-one years age. At that time Phoe- nix had not been born, and the Apache Indians were thick and TOY ing ali over the country May began in short time to prospect over the territory and was perhaps as well posted as any man on the different districts and it is said by his asso- ciates that he hardly ever recon mended a property but that it turned out all right. He was interested al different times in a number of min ing properties and sold one mine on the Colorado 10 eastern parties. How ever, his biggest transaction was in the sale of the Congress mine. May owning a share in the property and receiving, according to some stories, something like $50 ,OG0 for his share.
 After the sale he went east and bought 6 homo near Buffalo for his parents. paying several thousand dol lars for it and he also purchased two farms Of 135 and I60 acres near the same city. Arizona has exercised her Irresistible charm over him by this time, however, and he did not long remain in the east. but came back to the territory. He took part Of the money and began prospecting 'and developing other claims. K, was a4sO interested later in the Alas ka mine near the Congress In a few days he was to have received s55OO as further payment on the property. An informant yesterday stated that on the first of the months he receiv. ed SS,000 for the<sale of a mine. so that he was possessed of consider able of the worlds goods. His busi- nes has been lately looked after by A Iben of the Star lodging house. The farms in the east are left by his will to his brother and sister. his parents having died some years ago.
 J. B. Millsap of Congress yester- day stated that he had known May Tor over thirty years. Mir MsllsaD came here in 1879, and May was here before him. They bunked and work ed together for many years. followed mining and prospecting. He says that May was not the first one to locate the Congress mine. but that he relocated it after it had been abandoned by the first prospector. did the first real develoDment work On it and hauled ore So miles. there being at the time no railroad in that section. He began to work the mine .n 1883 and sold it in 1887.
 May was one of the hardy pioneers of the early days, rough ln/exte-ior and hardened by the life in the open and life of few comforts. but was big hearted, 1t is said by his friends and liberal to a fault In his first days of affluence he spent freely and . enjoyed life as it was then enjoyed. . Until the last he continued a follow 1 CT of the gold lure and always con tended that Arizona was the onIy place in the world to live. To his 1. associates, however, he always re- marked that while he liked to live here he did, not want to be buried here. He remarked often that he did not want his bones to rest whe-- they would be jared by blast and shattered stone. The thing which he loved in life he wished to be farthest removed from in death. so he asked that he be sent back to Buffalo where his parents are buried. This is in divative of his nature and shows that the old homo tfa- yr-apn 70, tirely severed by years of hard toll.
 Mir Millsap says that Dennis May was one of those few men whose -E-nEd- -r-as- -as-aaad- -a1.-hi -I-a..d-1IyI----- t was related that Dennis May said so, that settled it. The disposition Of his remains will be settled in few days. and thus will end the book of @ life whose chapters are ;dent,- fled with Arizona and her earliest history.