Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13
FILINGS ARE MADE
 ON COAL LANDS
Prescott Parties Secure Most Promising Properties, Which are Located
 In Navajo County.
CFrom Tuesdays Daily,

Coal land has been discovered in immense bodies in the southern end of Navajo county and a transaction at the United States land office at Phoenix last Saturday eorroborates this noteworthy event in the indus trial life of this territory.
 Publicity of the transaction is also given for the first time by the re- turn to this city Sunday of the men who made the filing and in a general statement to the Journal Miner yes terday by many of the men identi- fled with the proposition, an interest ing review of the matter is given. Attending this discovery and the talk
 ing over of a vast acreage of land, it is pleasing to chronicle the fact that practically all of the loeators are Prescott business men, and with this association it is also a Prescott resi- dent of over a quarter of a century to whom the credit is due for this remarkable discovery. Substantiated as the new coal lands are by the personal inspection of the ground by every one of the 16 men who file, the product on exhibition is the best argument and back of that is the authenticated report each brings as to the exposed bodies that are in evidence
 Preceding the entry that was made at Phoenix last Saturday, the aequir- ing of the lands practically took place last August. At that time and after personal inspection by George Mer- win, the original diseOverer, and J. M. W. Moore, formerly register of the United States land office in this city. Homer R. Wood and F. c. Moore. with others made the journey overland to the place designated. The location was examined and after an absence of five weeks the above party returned.
 While in the field Mir. Wood made survey of each parcel of 160 acres, 16 of which were selected and upon each of which coal was visible Ali ter the return of MT. Wood and MT Moore to Prescott the preliminary move was started toward the taking over of the domain surveyed. A few days thereafter, the necessary num- Der of investors were secured and a return trip to the field was made in which every one of the loczGors was on hand. When they returned to Prescott after nearly two weeks of an inland journey, they left for the United States land office at Phoenix, where they formally made appliea- tieu for the land.
 The tract taken over embraces l6 quarter sections, or total of 2,560 acres. The particular location is south of Holbrook, over 50 miles distant, and the settlement of Heber is the nearest place. The White mountain Indian reservation lies to the south'I and the grant lands of the Santa Fe are not touched. The entrance of each 16O acres is an individual trans action and the cost of each entry is $10 per acre, or for the parcel $500 and in the aggregate for the total acreage covered by the Is en- tries, $25,60O. The following filed | on the above conditions: George Merwin, J. M. W. Moore, F. c. Moore, Homer R. Wood, who were among the first to become identified with the | project; Henry ROekmark, J. H. Null rein, George NJ. Hubbell, J. I. Gard ner, F. E. Andrews, Ben Silverman, Henry Brinkmeyer, W. F. Fox, Dr. J. Harvey Blain, A. c. Massey and J. E. Russell.
 That the locations are bona fide and show unmistakably the existence of immense bodies of coal, visible to the eye, is reiterated by every one of the above gentlemen, who have been on the round. The original dis eovery shows an immense outcrop, where the flood waters have clearly defined the body in a ravine. On the surface above this particular place the same conditions are also in evi- denee. Exposed at points in this zone is an outerop that on its face shows from 10 to 12 feet high of pure coal, and for. distance of four miles in length and ranging to a fniles vide prospecting of the soil of each quarter section proves similar conditions to be prevailing: Some df64tlis kSjTlhs ago; or ~ when this matter was first under consideration, samples of the beds now located, were brought to this city for analysis. The tests showed better grade of coal than