Arizona republican., 1909-04-16

and had it not been for them. the syn dicate might have decided to proceed under the agreement, but they clouded the horizon with visions of possible litigation and it was considered that they were paying an exorbitant price for the mine, anyhow, without having to take on series of lawsuits besides. Tom Griffin, a brother of one of the locators, located group adjoining the Arizona Northern and sold it to Josi- ah Winchester. The side lines over lap. and there was opportunity for se- rious complications in that quarter. Another difference had arisen in an other quarter. The syndicate had bought eight claims. Only seven could be found among the locations, except by incorporating what is known as the Gray Eagle claim. one located where No. s of right should be. but which the original owners still held as their private property. A third cause of uneasiness was found in the fact that a contest for the ownership of the entire group is threatened by man claiming to have been a prior locator and who. it is understood. has already placed his case in the hands of an at torney. Whatever knowledge the syn dicate has of the merits of this con test. naturally led the gentlemen to have little faith in it, or they would not have bought in the first place. but lawsuits are always possible. and a. threatened one is not encouraging, even if it is pursued only to fail for courts are expensive.
 The syndicate believed. and still be- Iieves. that all these minor or last named difficulties could have been sat isfactorily arranged in the end. had they kept the property and been en- abled to do so without too great an outlay in advance. but in the face of the demand for such large cash pay ments in advance of returns. and with the possibility of having to eXpend considerable money on projects not di- rectly concerned in mining operations. clearing the slate of irritating diff culties. they decided to let the under taking go drop out of the game with out prejudice. without a particularly heavy financial loss themselves and without incurring losses for anybody else
 
 concerned said yesterday that their confidence in it as a possible gold pro- ducer is unshaken. only yesterday they secured two assays from rock taken from the lower side of the prop erty. hundreds of feet from the Glory Hole. One showed a return of s24.T0 and the other s1S1.S9 Mr. Sharpe says he feels sure the big ledge under the Glory Hole goes down and that fine body of good working ore can be de- veloped. but it will require a year. perhaps two or three years. to get the proper development done to insure adequate returns. That, of course. is only theory. for no man can see into the ground. but he is so much at tached to his theory that he would have been willing to undertake it, had the locators been willing to grant him sufficient time.
 The SsIore- Hillside.
 This does not mean that the syndi- cate is done with mining. by any means. On the contrary. it is pro- posed now to devote it's best efforts to an exploitation of the Hillside group This is the group on which SAf-h ildS bttll s'lll itNdllNs anu ail Sharpe has consistently maintained from the beginning that, in his opin- ion, it has equally as good, if not better. formation for a big mine than the Arizona Northern group. with the single exception. of course, of the Glory Hole which. as long as it lasts is like the bird in the hand. It must eventually play out of the picture rock, as everybody has understood from the first. In fact, there is much less of it encountered now than formerly. and after it is all gone. the case is resolved into one of vein formations and ton mage value. In that respect, both the surface indications and the assays on the Hillside rank equally as well as the Arizona Northern. and it is the plan of the Hillside company to pro ceed with legitimate mining and ex- poratiOn work on that property. hay ing in mind only the systematic devel- opment of a reliable mine, a mine in which their money as well as that of those to whom they have sold stock. will be carefully expended.
 Concerning the leases given on the