Arizona republican., 1908-08-03

As Mir! Mulhatton probably would | tell it: The virgin copper, which was sheltered by some mysterious geolog- ical transformation, has pushed through the earth. It has been polish ed by the warm winds of the desert until it shines like furnished gold, re- flecting a true picture of the heavens which make the uninitiated believe they are gazing into a pool of crystal water.
 ITO mine this vast discovery of copper, 25 miles long, 25 miles wide and 9 miles deep. would take 1896 times the population of the United States century.
 Labor being scarce here, We do not cut out the metal; we simply scrape off the few inches of earth, and the sun melting the mineral, it runs into cars waiting to receive it.
 We already have cleared $967,- OOO. 7GS.O1, but We spent it last night at Phoenix
 BROTHER JOE'S LETTER.
 "If further proof be needed. read a letter from Joseph to his sister:
 Tn Camp at Dagger Well.
 Near Kelvin. AriZ
 July Q, 1908
 "'The Phoenix Republican of the 7th had an article from it's special cOrre spondent about the rich strikes on your claims near Dagger Well. besides a whole lot of other interesting mining news from the Kelvin neighborhood. The special correspondent was sent here to get all the facts in the case. It took us three days to go over this great mineral field. Work is being done now in more than 100 places, and the great belt, or basin, of miner als, sulphides and carbonate is expos ed for five miles square. II is gener- ally conceded to be a fact that we are going to have one of the greatest min ing properties in Arizona. You may rest assured that I have looked after your interests. and your constant and intense devotion for so many years in assisting me in my great struggle to bring all this to a head is at last about 10 be handsomely rewarded.
 Brother Joseph Mulhatton' 'In another letter Joseph tells. that his luck came by putting his depen- dence in a higher power,' and, after wearing out 20 pairs of nailed shoes, he says: Tell MT. Ingram that it is no wildcat scheme but one of the largest and most legitimate in the world Inquiry elicited that her brother re- ferred to MT. Charles Ingram, son of MT James F. Ingram, who is expected by Mir. Mulhatton to come out soon'
 Tn 1901 Mulhatton was reported to be in the Territorial Insane Asylum at Phoenix suffering from the hallucina- tion that he had killed a man. Just before that time he is said to have been instrumental in selling a mine which netted him several thousand dollars commission.
 HIS FAMOUS FAKES.
 His story of a wonderful cave in Pike county, Kentucky, was a highly decorated work of art. It appears in Louisville paper, and set people on two continents talking of the rooms full of magnificent jewels, of long halls lined with great blocks of virgin gold and of subterranean rivers ripping over beds of diamonds. People flocked to Pikeville by the hundreds, and town lots sold for S100 as fast as the papers could be made out. Even P T. B2r- mum, the willy old snowman, was caught in the trap and hastened to Pike county to see if he might be able to pick up a few rare skeletons or strange cavedwellers that the excited discoverer had overlooked. In due course of time the phlegmatic and ponderous English tourists arrived in Pikeville and helped to swell the re- ceipts of the hotels and bars.
 Tn 1875, having a few moments to spare, Mulhatton wrote a story to the effect that the tombs of Washington and Lincoln would be taken to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and put on exhibition, the fund thus created to be devoted to completing the Washington monument on grand