Arizona republican., 1917-06-17
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, Haines wired a claim had been filed
against the property. This was settled
/ by the seller and the title passed to
Mr. James and Mr.. Dodge. Other com
plications. legal and Illegal, not very
| re-aSsuring to eastern investors, oc-
| CURED before a patent was secured to
! the Atlanta claim.
| Ny first piece of exploratory work
was a tunnel laid out by Manning eX-
! actlv parallel to the Queen line, but
which through error was actually drlV-
/ en- on the Queen mine. This actually
| did not matter. as the tunnel proved to
be too low to strike the Queen or first
! ore body: and to high to intersect the
! second or Atlanta ore body.
| | then sank on one of the small
lunches of ore which cropped out on
+ the east side of the claim. 1t twisted
/ in an out, descending. but apparently
! led to nothing of consequence and was
| abandoned Had it been followed for
/ two hundred feet it would have led us
into the big ore body two years in
advance of its discovery.
: Lead WORKS Erected
On the west side of the Atlanta is
an exposure of lead carbonates which
] extends across the end line into the
Hendricks. then owned by the Corbins.
The Corbins We're, | believe. interested
/ in the Toughnut. At the Corbin mill at
/ Charleston John Church was smelling
some of their ores. and being short of
lead. was drawing it from the Hend-
/ ricks claim. At the same time Mr..
| Simsbury. Of transcontinental stage
coach fame, had erected lead works at
! Benson under the misrepresentation
that the Sonora railroad would supply
him with an abundance of ore. He was
short of lead. and through Mr. Parsons,
| the New York agent of the Wells
| Fargo, company, got permission to mine
| the carbonates on the Atlanta. He made
i 4 down payment of $4,000. but never
made IA second, and this was the only
credit of the account of the Atlanta
Mining company.
Sinks On Outcrop
But at this west end there was only
an outcrop of copper and on it | sunk.
| 1t was larger and continued larger with
depth than the streaks ON the east end.
but did not open up into profitable
ore body, although we know that it can
be followed into something more i'm
| ortant
In the meantime the Queen also had
its troubles. The Copper Prince had been
located, as | have already said, on the
north side of the Queen. on an ore
body which extended across the line.
| though the ore was richer on the Prince
.than on the Queen. Mr.. Wendt, the ad-
visor of the Prince. claimed that the
ore to the south was too lean to be
classed as ore, and that the apex be-
| ing wholly on the Prince, the ore might
| be followed over the Queens sideline.
He gained his point and the Prince
| began to extract ore from the Queen
ground. But when the Copper Queen
Consolidated entered into possession it
was found that the Princes excursion
extended into the Queens claims far
beyond their end lines. A suit to re-
strain them was successful, so also
would have been a suit for damages,
had not the controversy been settled
by the purchase of the Prince by the
| Queen
Bisbee Encounters Trouble
The spring of 1884 was critical pc
riod in the history of Bisbee. The big
ore body on which the Copper Queen
had been working since 1880 had
pinched out, clean, before the incline,
sunk on it, had reached the fourth level.
| The Queen had run a drift west into
the King, and was drifting east along
our side line in search of another ore
body.
Mr.. Williams was opposed to an
opinion of San Francisco attorney,
| whom Mr. Martin had sent down to ad-
wise him as to whether the law of the
apex applied, and who had advised that
under the Richmond Eureka decision
the limestone between the porphyry
contact and the outcropping on top of
the Queen hill might be considered a
vein or lead under the law, being a
mineralized zone
The Queen had also employed Mr..
Price of San Francisco, to advise them
as an expert, and he pronounced only
ninety days ore in sight and could not
tell them where to look for more. Re
suits have since proved that there were
not more than ninety days ore in sight.
Meanwhile Mr.. James and Mr. Dodge
had become thoroughly disheartened
having spent some $50, 600 and over two
were all of it included under a city
government, would be mining ground
owned by the great producing COM