Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-12

very conspicuous character. After
 salutations. he inquired where ! was
 located l told him. and the following week he. with his frothe- Foresr. ard
 two other men. one b. the name oc
 Olwiler representing himself 10 be a
 Calsornia expert. and the other by
 the name Of Cresswell, 3 Colorado ex-
 pert, found their way 10 camp and
 remained some four days They exam
 ined all the properties and took
 samples from each of the claims
 that had any work done on them.
 Willis Huling when leaving told me
 10 come to Tombstone on the follow
 ing Tuesday. They then left us, we'll
 pleased with the appearance of the
 claims. The following Tuesday
 showed up in Tombstone. according to
 agreement, but Willis Huling had gone
 to settle some business in regard to
 the Sunset mine. in Tombstone. dis
 trict. A couple of days after he sent
 man by the name of Hogg to tell
 Forrest Huling to tell me to go 10
 camp and remain there until l should
 hear from him. did so. A couple of
 years after he came to Bisbee. and
 Nt tAAtA- | Htah. NttliSs nave ufEiL
 waiting to hear from you. What is it
 you want?" he replied: Duncan, |
 just came in to see how bad beaten 1
 have been" He told me he had sent
 for Forest to go to Tucson and he gave him S2I .000 to come over and see
 me. and make purchase od the Con. per Queen. But instead of his brother Forest doing so. he packed his grip and went by stage to San Marcel, and
 took the train there. and went home. and told his father that Willis had gone crazy on mines. And Willis had given him S21 ,000 and he brought ff home and saved it. GOOD BOY! That is how near l became an interested party with the Rulings There was no price set on the copper Queen for put- chase.
 Properties Waken interest.
 Toward the latter end of January.
 1880. Nicholas (McCormac and Tom
 Higgins, and some others, put in an appearance and scattered themselves around. none of them stopping in our camp. In February 1880. parties in San Francisco sent Ben Williams to see the mines and report Ben VII Hams was working in the Huachuca mountains at this time on q mine for W. E. Scott of Charleston. After exam ming the mines, he reported unfavor- ably as 10 the Copper Queen mine. hut gave favorable report on the Copper King. This was told me by his father, John Williams, ST.
 Col. William Herring, with George Atkins and K. F. Allen, paid the camp visit of couple of days toward the latter end of February About the mid de of March Col. Herring returned bringing with him Joe Rullsell and Billy Duncan, for the purpose Of open ing up the Neptune properties. Col Herring took up his abode with Joe Dyer. Russell and Duncan camped along with the rest of us for a while. then moved out to the Neptune Re- garding the development of the Nep. tune properties 1 did not pay any at teHtion. l had no interest in them,, only to wish the owners we'll ;as [. then thought any development that was made would help all.
 During this time [ had not heard from D. T. Reeder. did not know. what 10 think as I had told him to answer as soon as he received my letter. I wanted 10 hear from him asa he camp was becoming attractive to parties, and l was afraid some other 'eA tiNo lill6it tOlait anu tAttEAtTR NILn ny arrangements. As the sequel will show I was not wrong in thinking so Dn the Sth of April Edward Riley made ais appearance in camp. was at work ,n the New York mine. When I came O camp. Eddleman came to me and old me that there was a man in camp. ind he wished I would go and show lim the Queen. as | could talk and be 'ould not. was the way he explained lis reason for wanting me 10 see him.
 told Riley l was ready. As we went ID the hill we came 10 the place where Anschutz and Klein did the work for Kentuck It was a cut four eet wide and ran ten feet into the 'ide hill. IL was five feet and halr t the back, and sloped with the hill At this cut there was about a half ton of fine, green carbonate ore. lad already taken several samples rom it.. and the result was 9 per ent copper. [ told Riley what it as- ayed. We left the cut and went on P to where Haloro and Jones had lone the work After looking over the laim he came back to whefe Haloro nd Jones had worked. After looking round a little, he wondered what hey wanted for the mine. ! had not cen instructed by Policeman what to ay. So I told him twelve thousand oliars. I put it that high thinking e would not think of buying it, but udge Of my surprise when he jumped ID and said that there was a mine here, and he was going to have it. liter this we went to camp. l saw Ed ileman and called him to one side nd told him that I had set the price n the mine at twelve thousand doi- ars. and for him to see the others. nd have them hold out. and they would get that amount for the mine, which they did.