Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-13


 Of the discovery of the Silver King mine. one Of the famous Arizona pro peries of the early days. It is re produced from The Prospecto, a newspaper publ shed in 1884 at Qui jo1a. then a large southern mining camp now a deserted village. The object in reproducing the story is to perpetuste in the minds of the pre- sent people of the territory, an incl dent of scTe history importance, and which might otherwise in a few years become a mere gliimmerng and doubtaul fable. It is assumed the relation is historiical in tts es- sentia, details for the publicaion was within a decade of the reput- ed date of discovery and the writer probably knows what he was telling about. It is noticeable though that he made one error in speaking os Mason living in 1872 near where Phoenix now stands, for it is com monly known that Phoenix was some thtns of a village as early as 1870 Here is the story and it~is an inter estinS one:
 2 In the year of 1872. when General Stoneman, the accomplished cavalry officer. nov governor of California, was commander of she department of Arizona, it became necessary to adopt more rigorous measures than had been made for the suppression of Apache raids. To this end General Sbone1nan moved with his command to che base O the mountains. rear the Apache trail, and established a camp. He ahen constructed a road or mule trail, diagonally up to the face of the mountain leading over into the higher tabfeiands and val ieys of the Pinal range This pack trail, s nee known as "Stoneman's 1 Grade" is the main trave,ed route to the mining district of Globe and Pioneer.
 One of the soldiers, named Sulii VHI, employed in cutting the trait when returning from his work one rock, near to camp. and be- sGn picking up loose fragments of rock about him, amongst which were some small but heavy, black metallic looking Jumps. 1hese, instead of breaking up when pounded on the stones, became fattened ou. and were teyidenay metallic, somewhat lead This attracted his it'ention, but he did not reaEze the of his find. He, how sver, gathered a few of the Jumps and went on to camp. without say ng anything about his discovery to his comrades. His term of service expiring soon afterwards, he wat made s way to the ranch of Charles c. Masotn. on Salt river, near to the place where the twon of Phoenix was afterwards located. MT. Mason was one d the very few frontiersmen who. braved the terrors of the A,aches and staked out a farm on the fertile bottom lands of che river. Sullivan remained at the place some time and frequently showed the black ore tssnce famil iarly known amongst the miners as nugget silver'D to Mir. but without telling exactly where he found it Mir. Mason sup posed he would go back to the place. and he 10 doubt expected to go with him and participate in the benefits ot the discovery, but one day Suili-i van suddenly disappeared, and was not heard of for years after. He was supposed to have been killed by the Apaches. or to have perished on the desert, tn the attempt, perhaps tc retun to the place where he had found the rich silver ore. The desire to find the place where Sullivan had discovered the pure scuff-" as the ranchers called the black nuggets of silver sulphide, led them to make several attempts t) get there. Prospecting parties were form ed at intervals, for several years to prospect the Final mounGa.r5, aSd these partJes were often close uI9n the spot without knowing it They even made a location only a mile and haif distant from the place, nd called ti the Silver Queen" Ths was the first location made in the regssa, bst 10 district was then de fined by boundaries, or organized by the appointment ot recorder. | ateI
 the parry extended their searches
 over tire Pinal mountains into the re
 gion now known as Globe District
 They Eadc a locat-on there khowI
 to this time as the Globe Mine.
 and asey gave the name to the dis
 trict. The next year, 1875, Mr. Masoi
 and one of his neighbors, Beniamii
 W. Regan. formed a party of tfye cen
 sisting of themselves, William I.
 Long, Isslac Copeland and another t
 go again to the Globe mine, takint
 train of aEmals to fetch out son.
 of the ores On their way bacl
 March 21. 1875, they were attacke
 ty Apaches, and one of their part
 wss killed. His body was taken |
 Camp Supply. at ,he summit of .s
 Sssnenan Grade, and w93 buried
 his comrades in one of he osd Gton
 Bsiing ovens nsed for baking brea
 by Stcneman's soldiers. When tn
 survivors reached the foot of ti