Bisbee daily review., 1910-10-11
CREDITS DUNN
 WITH FINDING
 LOCAL MINES
Discovery of Mineral Wealth Not Made by George War ren, According to Judge Duncan, Bisbee Pioneer

Judge James Duncan, of Tombstone. one of the earliest of Bisbee pioneers. was in this city eysterday on busi- ness. Judge Duncan came to this camp in 1879 and was the first jus tice of the peace in Bisbee. He spent the winter of 1879 with five other men in the canyon where Bisbee is now located and of the six men he is the only one living. In speaking of the time Ihe was made justice of the peace for Bisbee he said that his first Iofficial act was to hold an inquest over the remains of a Mexican who had been shot The remains were in tered down the canyon where the C. & A. store was built few years ago. When the foundaton for this building was built the remains of the Mexican were dug up and for time there was much mystery as to the identity of the body. Judge Duncan is a very interesting historian of the events of those days when this was but small camp and within short time is expecting to publish an ar ticle in which he will relate many of the incidents Of the opening of this camp.
 In speaking of the discovery of the mineral in Mule gulch now the can yon. in which Bisbee is located. Judge Duncan stated that John Dunn. father of George Dunn. of this city. made the first discovery and located the first claim in what is now the Warren district. John Dunn was a scout ia the employe of the govern ment and he made the mineral loca- ton in August, 1879, several months before George Warren came into he district since named for him as the original dscoverer of the mineral here. The claim located by John Dunn was the Fucker. now the prop 1 erty Of the Copper Queen company. Dunn, after making the location re 1 turned to Fort Bowie in ths county l and later met George Warren who ar ] rived in Arizona from Socorro, New Mexico after the Fucker claim in Mule gulch had been located. Dunn grub-staked Warren to come to this part of the country aud prospect the hills. Inst1sl z: coming di.cctIy to ha Af,,,$ ,A-a; 4f, Tucson and told them of his plans ! The Tucson parties sent Warren back l here and he located claims on the south side of the canyon
 Judge Duncan stated that it is an error to state that Warren located the original Copper Queen group. This group was originally located by Hugh Jones, Joe Halero and McKane and was known as the Halero group. George Warren was a witness to the locations and not one of the locators. he having located other ground. These locations were made on December fl, 1877, several months after John Dunn had located the Rucker claim The Fucker claim IS located below the depot and the iron blow out known as the Iron Montser is on this claim. The story of the discovery of ths claim and its location marks one of the many interesting incidents of the history of what has since be- came one of the greatest copper pro- ducing districts Tn the world.
 John Dunn and party of Indian scouts with troops were passing through this canyon on the trail of a war party of Chiricahuas who had gone out and committed depredations in the Sulphur Springs valley. Dunn noticed the mineral indications near