Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-12-25

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The above succinct telegram cor
yeys a wealth of information to thos
interested in the outcome of the sui
involving the future development ant
possibly the ownership of one of thu
most potential copper properties il
this portion of the territory.
The property involved / sat Gleason
in the Turquois mining district tina
is assuming such imposing proportion!
of late since the advent in that region
of the Calumet & Arizona, Great West
ern and Copper Queen companies, and
the assurance of railroad connection
with the outside world. Ii was de
veloped to such extent as to reveal
its worth as a copper prospect some
seven or eight years ago by the Ryan
, Brothers and McKittrick.
! The former were wealthy cattlemen
from Kansas City, and McKittrick was
Bakersfield, California, oil well own.
er, we'll known in this country as a
member of the Trough Riders" They
sank three shafts on the property
along the mountain side about two
hundred and fifty feet apart and con-
nected them with drifts. The work
was on the southern slope of the Bis
bee end of the range, and was only a
few hundred feet above the property
of John Gleason, in which abundance
of sulphide ore had been encountered
and upon which a smelter had been
operated with Indifferent results be-
cause of the scarcity of water.
The work on the Ryan-McKittrick
property was in charge of Tom Lowry,
a pioneer miner of Tombstone, and as
capable mining man as could be
found anywhere in, the west. Whether
his employers would not heed his ad-
vice, or were in need of funds to in
stall necessary machinery, they did
not allow him to follow his desire to
cut the formation at depth, but drifted
at depth of about three hundred feet.
At that they encountered at regular in
tervals stringers of rich sulphide orc
whose uniform dip and increasing
width even in the short SPACE visible
in the height OF the drifts presaged
ore bodies at greater depth. Lowry
and Otner competent miners who ex-
amined the mine expressed themselves
as confident that the owners had
copper mine, or at least a splendid
chance of uncovering one would they
but get into the formation at a depth
where it IVES not broken up" to such
an extent as to render the existence
of large ore bodies impossible-a con-
diti0n that existed at the depth then
cut by their operations. For some
time nothing has been heard of the
properties by the general public, al
though the folks interested have been
busy as bees threshing out their diff
feTences of opinion in the law courts
of the territory
Some time ago the Ryan brothers
gave their co-owner, MckittTick, and
W. s. Teyis of San Francisco, an OPP
ton or bond on the ground whereby
the latter were to finance the property
and put it on a paying basis. McKit-
trick and Tevis subsequently were
sued in the district court at Tomb
stone for 100000 damages, the plain
tiffs alleging that the defendants had
failed to perform the services that
We're named as the compensation for
use of the property and an interest
therein. The defendants filed a de-
murrer to the complaint OF the plain
tiif. and il was sustained by Judge
DOane. Neale & Suffer were then re-
tanned in addition TO the former at
tOrneys for the plaintiffs, and the de
PENDANTS also increased their legal
batteries.
4 second complaint was filed. this
time praying damages in the sum OF
100000. Again the attorneys for Nc
Kittrick and Tevis fled q demurrer,
but Judge Kent 1.-THE trial of the case
having been removed from COchise
county to Maricopa on 4 change of
venueJ, overruled the demurrer and
the case came to trial. The result of
the suit, as above stated, was the
award of damages TO the Ryans of
S132,00G. The case was tried before
a jury.
The attorneys for the plaintiffs were
Z. S. Ives, Geo. H. NeaIe, J. F. Kings
bury and Frank Cox. The defendants
were represented bv Ben Goodrich,
Charles Goldman and A. c. Baker.
Information as to the final disposi-
ton of the property can not be learn
ed at this time, but it is probable that
some arrangement will be reached
whereby another excellent group of
mining claims will be added to the
total that are now undergoing develop
ment In the TuFuuois district