Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-09
HALF SECTION OF RICn LAND UNDER CULTIVATION FOR
 FIFTEEN YEARS
YET PATENT HAD NEVER BEEN TAKEN AND TRACT WAS WITH. OUT owNER-Two LIVE PHoE. MI xMEN HOMESTEAD RANCH WORTH FIFTY THOUSAND.

PHOENIX, June s.--Two file on a couple of homestead claims in the Salt river valley worth at their present valu. ation $5o,0Oo, would appear about as difficult as finding the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow Yet that is precisely what Edward l.. Shaw and Louis Garesche did last Friday.
 The land filed upon by Shaw and Gar esche has been under cultivation for fifteen years. One hundred and sixty acres of it is now in the finest stand of alfalfa. It is under irrigation. with plenty of water for it, and ven has a fence around it. The average observ- CT would consider it one of the most prosperous farms of the valley, yet. ac- cording to the records of the land of. ice patent has never been taken out on it.
 It is one of the most remar.table filings ever made at the local land of. fee and the story of it reads--uot like the Arabian Nights-but like one of the Stories sometimes seen in the Sat. urday Evening Post of the poor young man who had just come to the metropo. lis and happened to overhear, in a street car, conversation between two Wall street manipulators, which gives him a tip on stocks that makes him a millionaire in few minutes.
 Ed Shaw got his in the cafe of the Ford hotel. It was clock Thursday afternoon. He was leaning against the bar dallying with sloe gin rickey, Presently the tipster entered. He had enough, to make him garrnlous. The tipster had his friend with him to whom he immediately began to confde the innermost secrets of his heart. When he got down to the real secret, the sec, ret that was o stand beween him and poverty, he whispered innuendos, hen hinted at g gold mine in an alfalfa field; then he came out with it and told tho secret. Shaw, who was standing near b ycould hardly help hearing the conversation. He drew long breath and asked for another rickey.
 "You know l work for Chandler" !" said the innocent tipster, "and Gland Ter thinks he owns most of the land scuth fthe Mesa-but he don 't''
 Don't he?" asked his friend.
 "'No he don t There is half sec. tion right in the middle of his land that he don t own and know it. When I quit working for him I'm going to file on it.'
 The secret was out, and Ed Shaw was not the man to let fortune knock twice at his door.
 was now a quarter after 5. He sought ont his friend, Louis Garesche, and together they discussed the situa- tion. The land office was closed, 80 they got an automobile and started for Mesa. Shaw had obtained general idea where the land was situated, but he was not quite sure. They started out fpm Mesa Friday morning and drove eight miles south. They came to section 3l and Shaw decided that was the piece of land referred to. The sec tion is at the head of the Highland canal, and on the adjoining section the government is boring five wells for irrigation purposes. Shaw pointed to the east half of the section and told Garesche that that was their gold mine One-half of the land @as in alfalf and all was irrigated The land on either side belongs to Dr. A. J. Chand Ter. The half section was part of an enormous field all fenced in, and