Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-02-01

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Beloit and Mr.. Barclay prominent
| financier.
HISTORY OF THE s5 MINE.
The prominent outcropping OF sill
lcious dikes near Lordsburg we're in
the early days a great attraction to
prOspeotors. The indication was al
ways favorable for the occurrence OF
Ore-thus the camp Of Shakespeare
was one of the first In the southwest
to be prospected.
In the year 1885 Matthew Doyle and
( Vic Van Hall located five mining
claims on a prominent mountain three
miles southwest of lyOrdsburg. They
named one of their claims the rs"
on account Of the year OF the location
and proceeded to do development
work on the main vein, opening up
good grade of copper gold and silver
I ore. About one year later some San
Francisco mining men heard Of the
strike at the "S5" and they made
Doyle and Van Hall a proposition
which was accepted. These men did
, further development work at the mine
and incidentally incurred heavy in
debtedness at the Roberts and Leahy
Mercantile company at Lordsburg.
The San Francisco interests were not
successful with the mine and II was
soon acquired by Joseph 5eshy who,
together with Carl +. Dunnegan and
Albert Fitch worked the mine for
about a year shipping on an average
of 100 tons OF ore daily from the main
vein. Messrs. Leahy Dunnegan and
Fitch were very successful in their
operation Of the S5 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 LordsbuTg 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 sold
bv Mr.. Black to James Barclay, b. Y.
Yates. Arthur and Charles Warner, ali
of Beloit. Wis, for $4,000
James Barclay, one of the owners,
came TO Lordsburg and began the first
extensive development work at the 30
mine. To Mr.. Barclays efforts much
of the present success OF the SO MIN
ing company is due. He secured the
aeryices of a practical miner, John
Evans. and together they put Lords
burg and the SO mine on the map win
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 S5 Mining company
as manager. MIR. Paul did a great
deal OF development work, blocking
ont much ore. The next manager
was W. n. Kinnon, a mining engineer
of wide experience. Mr.. Kinnon dld
much successful shaft and lateral
! work in the mine and during his
management the Superior Group oil
! mines. adjoining the S5 mine on the
. southwest was purchased from
, Messrs Reckhart. White, OConnor
Wehner and others for the sum OF
500. 900. The workings OF the "a
mine were then connected up with
the Superior mine.
; w Y Ritter was the next choice
Of the directors Of the s5 company as
manager. Mr.. Ritter's successful bus
, ihess principles were put into eItec'
> / at the % AnluNf NAANAANAN "tANANNN
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 will
the Messrs. Warner in the speedome
; ter business and was the force in bach
= Of the advertising of the famous War
ner Auto-Meter. Mr.. Inderriedeu
also possessed a technical education
and was interested in mining in the
Cobalt country OF Canada at one time
I Since Mr.. Inderrieden's management
a fine new store has been established
! al the camp under the supervision o
, Walter Inderrieden, fire protection o
the finest kind has been established
many new houses built and the gen
eral attitude OF the camp has come al
10 the standard OF the larger mininI
camps OF the southwest.