Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-12

and how We did enjoy it. never spent
 a more pleasant time than | did while
 there. I was not idle; was like many { people. rather inqRisitiye, and they
 were just as communicative.
 First Ore Smelted.
 ln lS3S, D. +. Ray, who appeared 10
 be the brains of the party built a small
 furnace. equipped with common
 hand bellows. such as is used by black.
 smiths, and proceeded to extract some
 ore from the Hendricks mine, and
 smelted t in this furnace, and it ran
 inio mat They shipped the mat to
 New York IL brought them no re-
 turns. That was the extent of their
 mining and smelling.
 ln the latter part of August. 1878,
 two Of the iocators of the Neptune
 and another mine. Joe Herring and
 Paddy Dyer, were at the Sanpedro with a party hy the aame or Gates. who had a ranch about Eyar miles west or the
 Slaughter ranch While there they
 were both stricken with fever. Ken tuck and Eddleman had Gates bring them up to camp. On the way a heavy
 rain overlook them, and the party were all soaked through When they arrived at camp Kentuck and Eddie man hastily arranged comfortable quarters for them. Their sickness de- Veloped into typhoid pneumonia and as there was no medicine nor medical aid they soon succumbed, dying within an hour of each other They were buried in their blankets just below the big oak tree. The tree stood on the south side of the road or street. it was afterward called Duncan avenue. but l believe it has some other name al present. The bodies were on the north side Of tue middle fence, or in other words, the back yard Of the Ben Williams house. The graves were never marked, and they never had any other inclosure. Joseph Herring was a brother or Col. William Herring hut no relation to Kentuck. Paddy Dyer was brother of Joe Dyer. It i was through them that Col. Herring and Joe Dyer acquired their interest m the Neptune and other mines.
 At the time was there l remained 1 about two weeks. and then returned to my camp near WateryaEe. Ely fin- 1 ances were getting rather low 50 | ! wrote 10 my home at Westfield. New ! ' ork, for them 10 send me a draft for . one hundred dollars. I will say some i thing later about this.
 Jack Dunn's Story.
 When l arrived at Camp ADache. | there met John Dunn. a government | scout, and the father of George Dunn, l who has been a resident of Bisbee for I some years. This was aboue the 12 of | september, 1879 In a conversation had | frna Ta- m can him by that name hereafter as | ne was known all over the territory by ! ID, he told me he had discovered | good ore in the Mule mountains. He I ,ried 10 describe them to me. but not being acquainted with the country | 1 could not tell where they were. He also told me Lieut. Rucker, Thad Burns and he had made a location of ! mine. He said they had been scout ing about for Indians, and had made iheir way in there for water. and to see if the Indians made il a place of retreat. They stopped and eamped at irst spring. which was known after wards as the Iron Springs. The water id not agree with the men. The next morning he started up the gulch In quest Of water and found the spring " me loot or base or a high rock. )n his way btck he went down on the north side of the gulch and at the arge rock known as the Iron Monster. 'n it's east side he found the ore in 'iaee. He took some samples of the ,re and poceeded down the galeh to he camp. and informed Lieut. J. A. Fucker Of the find of water, also the ind of ore. They broke camp and went ip to the spring at the base of the ock Then Lieut. l. A. Fucker. John Dunn and T. D. ByFne made the lOca- ion of the mine and called it the Tucker. This was on the 2nd day Of August. 1877. The record of this loca- Ion can be found in the transcribed ecords of Pima county The men shan 'eturned to Camp Bowie. going up Brewery gulch 10 the divide, then town the north side to Dixie can lon. where they secuted for some ime: then on down the gulch 10 the Sulphur Spring valley Ia a short