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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-04-28
DISCOVERY AND PURCHASE
OF THE MIZPAH GROUP
How This Great Property was Discov-
cred by Jim Butler and Purchased
by Oscar A. Turner.

Oscar A. Turner is the man who
bought the great Mizpah group Of
claims at Tonopah from Jim But
Ter the original locator, for the
late John w. Woodside, the Phila-
delphia millionaire tobacco man,
receiving as his commission 5000
shares of Tonopah Mining company
stock, which he sold for $12 a
share, or a total of $2,196,000. The
true story of that great promotion
which made half score of mill
lionaires and rejuvenated Nevada,
was told for the first time by Mr..
Turner recently.
in the spring of 1901" said Mr..
Turner, Il was in charge of the
Coe gold mine at Grass Valley,
California. In the latter part of
march l subscribed for the Pacific
Coast Miner, a weekly paper print
ed in San Francisco and in the
first number I received / found an
article taken from the Walker Lake
Bulletin, giving an account of the
new camp of Tonopah and the boz
nanza strike there.
Il Immediately wrote to the ed
itor of the Walker Lake Bulletin,
asking him to confirm the story as
originally printed in his paper
and to give me some later details
of what was going on at the camp.
He replied promptly and very cour-
teously, stating that it really was
great strike and that they We're
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going ahead and taking out ore.
Il then made preparations to go
to the new camp. l had my out
fit put up and was ready to leave,
when heavy snowstorm came on.
telegraphed to various points
and learned that the storm was
general throughout the mountains
east, west, north and south.
did not care to start out in the
face of the storm, and postponed
my trip for better weather.
Later / set another day for my
departure and had my provisions
all prepared to take with me; but
just as / was about to go to the
train received telegram from
John w. Woodside of Philadelphia,
who was interested with me in
California, telling me that one John
H. Anderson was coming out to
! see me at Grass Valley and to look
at the mine / was operating there,
and of course / was obliged once
more to delay my trip to Tonopah.
Mr. Anderson came to Grass
Valley, and / told him / was just
getting ready to visit a new camp
when | received Mr.. Woodside's
telegram. He told me that if
| want ~ COO +bo now, oay,r and ILL od
it, to let him know and he would
come out and take look at it, and
| if he liked it he would put up some
money and help me buy property
there. That was all that was said
Jetween Anderson and myself al
that time about the new camp.
las soon as Anderson left I got
ready for the third time to go to
Tonopah. That was toward the end
of May, 1901. Mrs. Turner went
with me, and we took along as
general utility man Thomas Collins
of Grass Valley, with whom we had
been acquainted long time.
''In due course of time we ar
rived at Tonopah. Going in on the
stage with us was Mrs. Hudgens,
wife of DR.. Hudgens, the only den
fist in Tonopah at that time. and
the Forman brothers, all of whom
later made fortunes in the great
camp.
4 when we arrived in Tonopah
4 James L. Butler was the only one
/ of the owners of the big property
then in camp. ] met Mr.. Butler
and he took me around over the
property. To say that I was well
pleased with the appearance of the
mine would be putting it very tame.
ly. The fact is that I was dumb.
founded by what / saw. There
were probably thirty leases being
operated on the Valley View side
of the property, nearly all of then
showing ore. Notwithstanding this
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Serial NO. U4o14.
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Carson City, Ne
vada, April Z, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that Fred
A. Burnham has filed in this office
his application to enter. under the
provisions of section 1906 of the re
vised statutes of the United States,
the southeast quarter (A) of the
southeast quarter (A) Of section
seven 90 and the northeast quarter
(A) of the northeast quarter ca
of section eighteen (1S), township
four ca north range forty-four (44)
east, Mount Diablo base and meri-
dian.
Any and all persons claiming adj
versely the lands described, or desir-
ing to object because of the mineral
character of the land, or for any
other reason, to the disposal to the
applicant should file their afidavits Of
protest in this office, on or before the
18th day Of May, 1910.
Register.
Date of first publication April 16,
1910. :,
1910
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showing, however, it was apparent
to all, even at that time, that the
the great Mizpah ledge was far SUI
perior to any other development.
On the Mizpah ledge there was
line of small shafts fully 1900 feet
long, the shafts being situated
about 100 feet apart. Nearly all
of them showed good ore and most
of them showed ore of very high
grade.
After / had been around the
property for several days and had
examined the assay books kept by
James McQuillan, who was the only
assayer in the camp at that time,
and who had done all the assay
ing for the leasers, / asked Mr..
Butler what he wanted for his
property. He told me that he
wanted $4,000, with a payment
of $4,000 in 80 days and the bal
ance at various times, but all to be
paid within one year. told him
that / would take it, That is about
all the talk there was about the
price and the terms of payment
There was some discussion as to
the leases, and we agreed that the
leases were valid and binding and
that no attempt would be made to
disturb them.
"Mr. Butler then said:
Go head and draw up your pa
per-
HE informed me that he had
power to act for the absent owners
of the property. / drew up the
paper myself, and Mr.. Butler sub
mitted it to his lawyer, Henry c.
Cutting. Mr.. Cutting changed a
few words, without changing the
meaning at all, and Mr. Butler sign
ed it himself and other owners on
Sunday, the second day of June,
1901, and I gave him draft for
$4,000 on John w. Woodside, my
old mining partner, payable 80 days
from date.
The next morning Mrs. Turner
and myself took the stage for So
daville. l left Thomas Collins in
charge of the property and to look
after the shipments of ore, the
agreement being that the royalties
on the ore should be paid to me
and my associates from the End day
of June, 1901. Thus Thomas Col
Inns was the first man that had
charge of the Tonopah property un-
der my purchase.
'On arriving at Reno the next
night I sent Mr.. Woodside a long
telegram on which the toll amount
ed to $21.55. l have a copy Of it
here and will read it" And Mr..
Turner read
Reno, New, June S, 1901.
Hon. John w. Woodside, 931
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.
'Tonopah mines greatest surface
showing ever discovered. Thirty
seven holes on eight claims pro-
ducing both milling and shipping
ore. Many others producing fine
milling ore; all being worked by
tributers. Net profits to owners one
thousand dollars daily On ore ship
ped. Have bought these eight
calims for three hundred and
thirty-six thousand dollars. Fifty
thousand payable June 2Sth, one
hundred thousand October 1st and
one hundred and eight thousand
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Serial No. 04S73:

Serial NO. O4ot5. . ,
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Carson City, Ne
vada, March 20, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that the AZ
tee Land and Cattle company, limited,
a corporation, organized and existing
under and by virtue of the laws OF
the state of New York, has filed N
this office it's application to select
under the provisions of the act OF
congress approved June 4th, 1897 lSg
stat. 36), the northeast quarter OF
the northeast quarter of section nine
teeen (19); the east half Of the south
east quarter and the southeast quar-
ter of the northeast quarter sec
ton eighteen (1S); all in township
as north, range forty-four CAD east
Mount Diablo base and meridian.
Any and all persons claiming adverse
ly the lands described, or desiring to
object because of the mineral charac-
ter of the land, or for any other rea-
SON, to the disposal to the applicant
should file their affidavits of protest
in this office, on or before the lftn
day of May, 1910. ~
LOUIS j. COIN,
Register.
Date of first publication April 10
1910. ..,o Nov o,
1910
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-04-28
See DR.. Geo. P. DeVine

never dreamed of such thing ass
going there on Anderson's behalf.
/ went to see the property and
took the option on it in my own
name and wholly ON my own re-
sponsibility. | offered it to Mr.
Woodside first, because / felt from
our long connection that he was.
entitled to anything good that /
could get. If Mr. Woodside had not
paid that draft, l had already ar
ranged in Grass Valley to take it
up. have ever since regretted
that | did not take in with me on
that deal some of the good mining.
men that | knew in Grass Valley in
stead of allowing the Philadelphia
crowd to get hold of the property
and slaughter it as they did.
However, gave my Grass VAL
ley friends. who had agreed to come,
in with me in case Mr.. Woodside
did not pay the draft, block of
1000 shares of stock each; SO you
will see that | did not allow them
to lose any money on my account.
One man sold his stock at an aver
age of $40 a share and got $40,-
600 without being called upon to-
put up cent. I made these nego-
tiations Immediately on my return
to Grass Valley but within IL or
IA days from the time ! wired Mr.
Woodside from Reno, / had letter
from him at Grass Valley saying
that all arrangements had been
made to pay the draft and that it
would be taken up in due time. In
the meantime, however, / had tied
another string to my bow by inter
esting Grass Valley people. In any
event, / would have had no trou-
Bile in getting the money to make
the first payment
There had been a standing ar
rangement between Mr. Woodside
and myself for years that | was to
have certain interest in any good
proposition that l could get, he to
put up the necessary money and l
to have the management of the
western end. l had taken the pre-
caution, however, to say in my let
ter to Mr.. Woodside from Tonopah
what interest l wanted in the prop
erty for my services in getting the
option, putting it on the basis of
the old agreement between us.
"By filing Mr.. Woodside with
pack of lies regarding me and my
business in Grass Valley and elsa
where, Anderson had managed to
turn him against me. did not feel
any uneasiness, however, since | had
the option and everything in my
own name; the $4,000 payment
had been met, and the property
was in fair way y pay for itself
, within the year. But as soon as
II learned of the situation in the
Continued on Page -Four.
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December goth. Have drawn on
you for first payment. Draft due at
Penn. bank. Philadelphia, June %.
Under my agreement, tributers may
work their ground until December
31st, but all royalties received by
owners after June LIST to be ap-
piled on purchase price and to be
subtracted from our last payment.
We may enter upon any part of
ground and mine after meeting
first payment. At least one mil
lion dollars in sight above fifty foot
level. Deepest shaft seventy feet,
vein there six feet. Five feet forty
dollar; one foot three hundred dol
lar rock. Eighty thousand to one
hundred thousand dollars worth of
forty dollar milling rock now on
dumps. One-fourth of this and one
fourth of all mined hereafter comes
to us and We can ask all we want
for milling other three-fourths own
ed by tributers or buy them out at
their own figure when reduction
works are ready. Will mail fur
Their particulars in a few days. You
must get the money to meet this
draft without fail. cannot get
the time extended Wire me at
Grass Valley.
20. A. TURNER, ;"
The facts about the payment of
the first draft are these:
AS soon as Mr.. Woodside re-
ceived my telegram, he called on
Mr.. George H. Colket, than whom
there never lived better or more
honorable man, and together these
two men within few days raised
the $4,000 to pay that draft
Recurring to the conversation
that | had with John A. Anderson
at Grass Valley, it will be remem-
bered that | had mentioned a new
camp to Anderson without telling
him where it was. and that he had
said he had money and would help
ME swing my deal. After | had
closed the deal and before | left
Ionopah, | wrote Mr.. Woodside a
letter and took it out with me and
mailed it at Reno. In that letter
! told Mr.. Woodside to take Ander-
son in with him in the deal. Mr..
Woodside strongly objected to do
ing this, but inasmuch as | had
asked him to do it, he mentioned
the matter to Anderson, and An
dersOn came out to see the mine.
Anderson had always represented
himself as a man of means. AS .
matter of fact he was a man of no
means at all, and never had any
money, nor made any money until
his connection with the Tonopah
property.
II met Mr.. Anderson in Reno
and went down to Tonopah with
him. On our return to Reno he
borrowed $3.50 from me to ena-
Bile him to get back to Philadelphia.
He told at least one man in Reno
that he had sent me to examine
the Tonopah property and that /
had no interest in it except as "a
mere mining expert who had ex-
amined and reported on it for
him. AS matter of fact, I had
never heard of Anderson until
Woodside wired me that he was
coming to Grass Valley and all that
passed between US in regard to
Tonopah, I have already stated. |
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-04-28
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Serial No. 046II. ~,,
Department of the Interior, On1Sed
States Land Office, Carson City, Ne
vada. March 20, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that the AZ
tee Land and Cattle company, nmiteu.
a CORPORATION, organized and existing
under and by virtue of the laws u u
the state Of New York, has hled IN
this office it's application to seiect:
- the provisions Of the act OF
cd less approved June 4th, 1897 ~
49, 36), the northwest one-quarter
(Al Of the southwest tignt fs, one township
four "a north, range forty-four laa'
east Mount Diablo base ana meri-
dian. .oavarse.
lv che lands described. or desiring TO oo-
feet because of the mineral cnaraceer
Of Ne land, or for any. other reason
TO the disposal to the appncan..,
should file their affidavits Of protest t
in this office on or before the lin
gay Oh May louis ]. COIN.
Register.
Date of first publication April TO-
1910. .,. Nov al.
1910.
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Continued on Page Eour.)
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05
BUYING HALTED BY
LOW PRICE TALK

BoSTON-Fear OF further redua
ions in the price Of copper and OF a
very unfavorable. April statement by
the Copper Producers Association
IL one is issaed-haye seemingly
frightened away the Investment buy
ing OF copper shares which generally
makes its appearance in Just such
ragged markets as Boston has vi T.
messed during the past week.
The bargain hunter" IS not oa
hand, and liquidation is 5nsistent-
The moment selling pressure lets up
the market becomes dun; there is
no aggressive demand. seldom have
the local copper specialties suffered
such a loss In market value un-ac-
companiea by any slump in metal
prices.
Copper has declined less than !
per cent per pound since jan. last.
and vet 81 active stocks listed On
the Boston Exchange show stock
market depreciation. from the high
Of the year to the low of Thursday.
tI no less IMAM ~-lps''NfN'N- ~ NHt-'
sum. s3i000.0O0 is contribu ed by the
drop in Amalgamated from 80 "a 10
eS II. while s24.OO0.0OO is represent
ed by the decline in Utah Copper from
60 - 80 IL.
Unless there is a very marked inn
p7ovement in the manufacturing de
mand for copper-and there Is little
evidence that such al improvement
is near at hand he opinion IS that
the price OF copper must lie still
further lowered
At the time OF the issuance Of the
March statement Ct the Copper Pro
ducers' Association the figures were
50 Unexpectedly unfayorable tina the
calumet & Hecla jumped in AID cut
its price 20 Is cents. sold between
COCO 900 and 100000 pounds and
Immediately put The price 10 - -.
This action. while affecting only q
relatively small tonnage did not
please the Uni cd Metals Selling Co.
with the result that the ANA 'gamated
people a, once declared mat they
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05
LONDON METAL
PRICES MAKE
SHARES SOf I
Cooper Now Quoted at II
Cents Over There Which
Puts It at q New Low Mark
p Many Years,

Aiem5cr Duluth Stock Exchange
The New York market opened strong
ana exceilen support was shown dur
Ing the entire session Prices soon
sdvanced and were maintained AID
shorts were forced TO cover. The mar
keJ closing at the high mark for the
day steel common SHELTERS and
Southern Pacific were the features
The r7Imor that the Sou hern Pacific
was % dispose of their oil land hal
tendency so set new pace for South
Srn Pacific Penn. was inclined to b.
weak and his was more noticed when
they did not raise the dividend bus
asked Tor a 100000 bond issue.
The copper shares list fails TO show
amy Improvement. with copper metal
quoted At So pcunds in London puts
cur copper at a new low mark, being
about = cents. Celume. and Arizona
superior and P.ttsburs and Greene
Cananea were all inclined TO be soft.
CRANKY. North Butte and Utah we've
also sold or DEM Arizona is being
offered ar i-l with little or no de
mana Tor the stock Shattuck was Of
fered one time ar q, bur closed lirri-
en- The Giche issues are All under
pressure Money ruled at to Z ~
ucr cent sales for New York stock 5
77ie 500 shares.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05

The table Tor the m neral produc-
Jion OF Cochise county for the past
year shows iss754.475 in copper val
ued at slS.ls2.92G; 23.71o.so2 ounces
'of gold. valued at s490,i043ei
s23. c96,070 ounces OF silver. valued
lat S734 27G.25: 1.Ssl.s0S pounds q
Lead. valuedsS.S17.29: S9I.9s5 pounds
Of zinc, valued at s49,05S.4e.
The total gross value of mineral
production IS thus S1e.52s. 56s69. as
shown 10y the figures filed in the
Office OF the county assessor and the
assessed value is S4S23.s92.1S- This
Is record which easily surpasses
any made by any other county il
Arizona.
The Copper Queen company leads
with total Of Sll51G,975.71 with
c. q a. second. s3,S47.727.56. and
Superior and Pittsburg third. $a,3S9,-
69G.Sa.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05
STANTON VISITS
SUPERSTITION MINE

The Florence Herald. in the follow
ing. tells of a visit of w. F. stan
ton to the Superstition district in
Pinal county and the probable imnor-
tant results:
". F. staunton Of Tombstone, o.
Longacre OF Prescott. and A.
Cooper Of Phoenix visited the Ma
e-lck group and other properties h
the Superstition range this week.
They went out from Florence IN a
livery rig and spent several days IN
looking over the Superstition district
in general. They returned with a
good opinion OF the properties visited,
and as Mr. StauntOn is the general
manager Of the Tombstone Consolt
dated Mining company. the Poland
and Congress companies, and the I'm
per'al copper company whose great
smelter Is located in Saseo this coun
IS, the tour of inspection above men
toned may result IN the great NH
ing and railroad syndicate known as
the Development company of Ameri.
ca becoming interested In the Super.
stition district. The Mining compa-
mics above mentioned are subsidiary
companies Of the Development com
pany OF America, now engaged in
constructing railroad from Por;
Lobos TO Sasco. Should this com.
pany acquire mining properties in he
Sunerst fion district they will, un-
doubleday. extend their railroad from
Red Rock 10 Florence and thence %
the Superstition district so miles
north Of Florence. The total length
Of such road would not be over 20
miles and GO miles of that distance
Is across a level mesa country de-
void OF Mills or canyons and a rail
road will he constructed across il
at very small cost. probably at .
total cost Of less than one-half mil.
lion dollars. including the rails, ties
and grading
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05

RoSTON Nav For ,ae first
time in many days the feeling was
more optimistic. Il was stated lha9
reocfiatious we're under way Tor
,bc nlac;ng OF several large issues
sbrosd and this will affect the bat
s,ce of trade 50 that gold exports
viii cease aud We VIII be able %
get Ali ,ea want ia the fall. Shof,
covering vas responsible Tor mos
Of the rise today aud coir'niss'o"
business was light
me market IS COMMENCING %
have two sides again and The pear
haze no, got everything thcir Own
~, bst or the whole Ne stih Dc
liz. r. selling stocks on rallies as
Nc think we will ultimately nav
over priees. Paine Weber and 20
..,rb shares we're drll win slight
=. s,,,.,.oves rone In most instaH-
49, pressure was lacking ate si'sn'
sdssroes recorded. Chino "a ~.
,amand up. Live Oak h'i- y '''.
49,, t,.5e warrior lack Duy -n@
-. ritn Some oaeriue at r.
.s..,f,,ck firm ~ = bid viii only
orsrinas at -. - an duii ard pr
~ ro~ sale Market bare q. bias.
Ro.ai,a otaet e-iia only bids &C.
,sidorablv under sellers hgurcs- , ~
aefion 81 markets tie p~st Pc"
,~oat.sss demoraii1ed trading I"
c,,rh issues and il VIII require p'''
no,need strength N TIE listed sn''ss
befcrs any Substantial mofe''e"
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05

In the course OF each year 100000
pounds Of opium finds its way into
London
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05

BUY THE BEST CANDIES IN
TOWN, AT CENTRAL FHARMA-
cY.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05

BUY WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY
PRESENTS AT CENTRAL PHAR.
MACY.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05
STOCK MARKETS, RAILROADS, FINANCIAL AND MINING

did not favor the publication of
monthly stats les by the Copper Pro
ducers' Association. and their attit-
ude has given rise to the fear that
he United Metals Selling Co. or the
affiliated Amalgamated in .erests may
.secede and thus disrupt the organiza-
ton.
The trade estimates that il the
April statement of the Copper Pro
ducers' Association is issued il viii
show an increase in the American
surplus OF not less than 2S.0000 900
pounds. which. added to the worlds
surplus as of date April 1. Of 374,-
100000 pounds. would bring the
worlds visible up 10 above 100
100000 pounds.
Il Is the steady growth in this IN
comfortable large surplus which is
the real hoodoo in the whole situa-
ton. as copper shares cannot be ex-
pee ed to show any rallyiug power
with the prospect Of a lower metal
market Immediately il sight.
TIE belief continues. however. that
the sooner The price OF copper is re-
duced to a point which viii elimina-
ate the millions OF pounds which are
coming out Of the ground wi h alb
solutely no profit to the producing
company, the sooner viii some safe
and sane basis be established upon
which TO build structure of advane.
ing copper share prices.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-05
GOLD STRIKE GENUINE
CWickonburg Newsl

tWickCnhurG News-A
Andrew q Moutier OF Harrington
MAS a Wickeaburg visitor this week
and when asked about the gold strike
in the Silver Mountain district he yer
i1ied TIE reports that are causing so
much excitement in this part OF the
country He SAYS that a Mr. Dwyer
took $500 out OF six foot hole
en- the Monte Carlo ten years ago
and that John Queiico and John Ra-
Vello have sunk a shaft on the same
property and struck the same ore in
the vein By running a cTOsscut at a
depth of So feet. some OF the ore be
ing hair sold Mr. Moutier saw one
piece Of the ore the size Of a cocoa.
nut that was all covered with the
precious metal They have taken out
three sacks OF the rich ore and stiIl
iei' the same quantity Of ore in place
iE The vein