Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-13
Story of How King Silver
 Mine Was Found

he broke off. He soon after came
 hurrying into camp shouting. 'I have
 struck it," and "io is good enough
 for me- The excited and hopeful
 prospec.ors gathered around him, and
 the pieces of cropping holding the
 long sought black silver ore passed
 from hand to hand; they all said
 Tt is good enough for us." and con
 cluded thst at last they had discov'
 cred the place where Sullivan had
 lound the black stuff" the nugget silver. But they were in no condi'
 tion to remain at thas time to ex.
 plore the locality or to make theif prize more certain and secure. Tray. elworn, weary. and saddened by the boss of their comrade, and without provisions thoy hastened on to the settlement on the Gilal at Florence
 crossing the dreaded desert at night The next day. jealously guarding their secret, they gathered supplies together and hastened back to the discovery point There, sure enough they found the little black nuggets strewn on the surface and mineral stains, of many colors. including green and blue in the substance of the rock. The long sought treasure was found ar last Sulhvan's discov- cry was no longer his alone. Stand ing upon the higest poirs of the mineral1stained rock, they made the Silver King location. fifteen hundred feet long. in an easterly and westerly and six hundred feet wide. in a northeriy and soudheriy dfrec. ton. This was on the 22nd of March 1875. It was the initial location of the district. now known as the "Pio neer Mining District" This district was immed Ately- laid out. or desig. hated as twenty miles square, ex. tending ten miles each way. from he initial point of the Silver Kng i ocaSon. with the boundary lines unnfng north and south, east and vest This location and the location t the claim. was properly made in I wich the laws. and they
  10 Florence. the county seat.
 The ownership of the location Of he Silver King claim WAS the,i 'qualy divided between the four sur lFors of the party of five. each loiding cne-fourth. On the 3oth ot une. 1876. Iaasc Copeland sold his nequarfser to Charles c. Mason, and H. Long sold his one-quarter o Benjamin. w. Reean. On the 9ta f January. 1877, Charles G. Mason old his one-half to Col. James Nj. Barney, and on the 9th day of May, SIT, the Silver King Mining com. 'any was incorporated Under the avs Of the state nf Calf ,rn.a. Onl he sth day of fay 1877. James A. Barney and Benjamin W. Reganl ieeded their entire interests in the nine to the incorporation.
 One day, about three years ago an 'ged man came slowly into the shriv l ng settlement of Picket Post. ard ne Silver King mill. where twenty 'tamps were day and night merrily rounding out silver from the rock The man was evidently n need O leip. and soon went to the office O ne comTAny and announced himsel IS Sulivan the old soldier, the orig nal uiscoverer of the vein, and hum ply asked .or work. Although iong before he had been given up as dead and very few of his old acquaint ances survived, he was identified be yond doubt. and was immediately taken into the compaly's service by the day. His story was briefly told as follows: On leaving Mason's ranch he crossed the wide desert to the westward, as far as the Great Colorado river. and beyond it inIo California. Be ag penniless he had sustained himself by working as a farm hand in California Always hop ng to obtain sufficient means to return to Arizona and secure the benefit of his discovery, he had ia. bored on year after year. looking vaguely forward. until one day he heard of the discovery Of the rict deposits of silver by Mason and others. He was convinced that tht
 place had been found and that hS
 had lost his chance of making th'
 ocation for himself Although will
 out any ownership or right in th'
 location, as made by Mason and hi
 friends. and sappointed in his long [ cherished hope he could not resist
 desire to return and see the result o | the opening of the mine.