Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-12-21
HISTORY OF THE IS NINE.

The prominent o%utcropping of sill.
lcious bikes near Lordsturg were in
the early days n great attraction to
~prospectOrs. The indication was al
ways favorable for the occurrence of
ore-thus the camp of Shakespeare
was n of the first in the southwest
to be prespected.
In the year 1885 Matthew Doyle and
Vic Van Hall located five mining
claims On a prominent mountain three
miles southwest of Lordsburg. They
named one of their claims the "s5"
On account of the year of the location
and proceeded to 90 development
work on the main vein, opening up a
good grade of copper, gold and silver
ore. About one year later some San
Francisco mining men heard of the
strike at the 49, and they made
Doyle and Van Hall a proposition
which was accepted. These men did
further development work at the mine
and incidentally incurred a heavy in
debtedness at the Roberts and Leahy
Mercantile company at Lordsburg.
The'San Francisco interests were not
successful with the mine and it was
soon acquired by Joseph Leahy who,
together with Carl f. Dunnegan and
Albert Fitch worked the mine for
about a year shipping on an average
of 100 ons of ore daily from the main
vein. Messrs. Leahy, D%unnegan and
Fitch were very successful in their
operation of the So mine and took out
some ore that brought the mine into
prominence.
In 1906 a mining engineer by the
name of w. p. Black, was en- route
to Clifton, Ariz., to look over some
mining property there. In passing
through Lordsburg he saw some OF
the ore from the So mine and immed-
lately became interested. He inspect
ed the property and made the owners
a proposition of option which was ac'
cepted and by 1907 the mine was sole
by Mr.. Black to James Barclay, Is. Y.
Yates, Arthur and Charles Warner, ali
of Beloit, Wis, for $75 900.
James Barclay, one of the owners,
came to LOrdsburg and began the first
extensive development work at the SO
mine. To Mr.. Barclays efforts much
of the present success OF the SO Min
ing company is due. He secured the
services of a practical miner. John
Evans. and together they put Lords
burg and the So mine on the map with
a red ring around it-then all the
mining eyes of the West were turned
upon this section.
Later Alfred Paul of Douglas was
employed by the So Mining company
as manager. Mr.. Paul did a great
deal of development work, blocking
out much ore. The next manager
was w. II. Kinnon, a mining engineer
OF wide experience. Mr.. Kinnon did
much successful shaft and lateral
work in the mine and during his
management the Superior Group OF
mines, adjoining the So mine on the
southwest was purchased from
Messrs. Reckhart, White, O'Connor,
Wehner and others for the sun OF
500. 900. The workings of the So
mine we're then connected up with
the SUPERIOR mine.
w. +. Ritter a the next choice
of the directors of the IS company as
Mr.. RittoT's successful bus
mess principles were put into effect
at the SO mine, excellent smeiter con
tracts secured, much ore blocked out
and shipped and many surface I'M
provements made at the mine. Ow-
ing to his other important business in
terests in Lordsburg Mr.. Ritter re-
signed his position and the new man
ager became A. J. Inderrieden. Mr..
Interrieden had been associated with
the Messrs. Warner in the speedome-
ter business and was the force in back
Of the advertising of the famous War
ner Auto Meter. Mr.. lnderrieden
also possessed a technical education
and was interested in mining in the
Cobalt country of Canada at one time.
Since Mr.. Inderrieden's management
a fine new store has been established
at the camp under the supervision Of
Walter Inderrieden, fire protection OF
the finest kind has been established.
any new houses built and the gen
eral attitude of the camp has come mp
10 the standard of the lareer mining
camps OF the southwest.