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Box 477
Kingman, Arizona.
March 8th, 1916.

General W.D. Sneman
The Art Club
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sneman:-

Your interesting letter of the 27th of January
has caught me up here. I congratulate you upon your
clever success in Philadelphia.

I have grown much younger than when you saw me and expect
ultimately to die of cholera infantum, or other infantile
complaint.

Gray hairs do not bother me so much as keeping the
small amount I have. If I had a roof thatch like yours I
would not care if it were as white as snow.

I will try to get a Kodak of myself soon and will send you one, and hope that you will do as much for me.

My partner, a well known mining engineer form Bisbee, Arizona, and I have been in the field since last November scouting for good looking mining properties.

We got a good looking copper property in Southern Arizona and have interested Boston people in it and the development is now under way.

We have been after a mine in this county for some
weeks but have been unable to buy it, but have after much
negotiation succeeded in getting a ten years lease on what
we think most favorable terms.

The property was mined in early days for its gold, silver, and lead, the zinc ores being thrown away as the smelters charged a penalty for zinc then. Now it is worth 20 cents a pound. The mine has been developed to a depth of 500 feet and is said to have produced a million dollars in those days when lead was cheap.

We have been over the old smelter returns and find that
the concentrates shipped averaged about $4. gold, 20 ounces
silver and 55 per cent lead.

In the last report made on it a well known mining
engineer of high repute estimated that there was still a
gross value of $500,000 left above the 500 foot level.

We shall be satisfied if we find half that amount.

There are on the dumps between $25,000 and $50,000 net
ore values. We can give nearer the exact amount when all
of our assay returns come in.

The mine is full of water up to within 115 feet of the
collar of the shaft, but we have examined the old workings
that were open above this point and they confirm our belief
in the property.

The property adjoining us on the south is another mine
of the old days as ours is, and has recently been taken over by

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by some Californians. They say that their old stope fillings left behind by the former operators go $25. a ton gross, and they are shipping ore. They have cleaned out an old tunnel at 110 feet depth and drifted to our end line and have exposed in our property a fine breast of ore.

The property next south of this one is down 1400 feet and is crosscutting for the vein at this level. At 1300 feet they have 8 to 16 feet of solid lead and zinc sulphides carrying gold and silver. They must be making $100,000 a month above all expenses, and expect bigger things on the 1400 and 1600 levels.

We are on the same vein and only 1500 feet north of the big ore body developed in this last property.

The ore goes deep in this district and we believe that depth will deal as favorably with us.

Our property is only 3000 feet from a railway, and it will undoubtedly extend to our property when needed.

When we have deducted all the costs of mining, shipping, smelting, milling, and mine management we are to divide half of the net profits with the owner.

When we start to work we advance him $2500, and also advance him $250, a month until the returns come in, then these advances are to be deducted from his share of the returns. We also set aside 10 per cent of the profits to ultimately repay the capital advanced for development.

This is, I think, better than to have to meet payments for the purchase of the property, for all expenses are paid from the production, and a provision is made for paying back the money used in development.

All the money advanced goes into development and not to anyones profit.

We want to raise $100,000 for development, and if we cannot arrange with the big mine south of us to mill our low grade ores will have to build a mill of our own.

This will probably take $75,000 more.

We are in the market for money and it occurred to me that as you are in touch with capital you might be able to get it for us and do well both for yourself and us.

As soon as our report is out we will send you one if you think you can assist us.

Everything will be just as the report represents, and we expect anyone who joins us in the enterprise to first substantiate our report by their own engineer's examination.

There is no doubt in my mind that the property will be a big and large producer for years to come. It is the best mining chance I have seen in years.

Let me know if you can do anything toward helping us and what you think such service worth and we will immediately advise you.

Sincerely yours

The Art Club,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
July 27, 1916.

Mr. Marshall Bond,
The University Club,
Seattle, Washington.

My dear Marshall:

I was indeed glad to receive your letter, and I have
been wondering a great deal what has become of you.

On my return from Mexico, I made inquiries, but found
that you had left, and I have heard nothing about you until I
received your letter.

Strange to say, I never had the opportunity of seeing
our mutual friend, E. Reeve, so I have not had the opportunity
of getting closer information of your movements in New York.
However, I am glad to say that I was very much pleased to learn
from your letter that you were able to get your business in such
a shape without having to bother any of your personal friends or
anybody else whom you would have felt a little embarrassed to
approach.

Reeve M. is a good soul, a true friend, and a loyal
one, and there is no doubt, while he is slow about moving him-
self, having retired from business life, he is still a powerful
factor with the financiers of the city of New York. When it
comes to meeting the proper people, I am always certain an
introduction from him to any New York financier is a great help,
and I am so glad that you appreciate what he has done for you;
because I think the three of us are real loyal friends to one
another. I realize what you say about the reception you had
in New York and elsewhere with all your old friends, and the
question comes to me,-- Why not, Marshall Bond, why should
people not be glad to see you once more and demonstrate their
acquaintance? If they felt towards you as I do, they would have
done what they have. The only bad feature about it is that one
realizes the old saying, "I have been killed through kindness."

just

Well, since I have seen you, we had started our new
operations in Campeche when this Mexico fiasco, one of Wilson's
great many mistakes, drove every American out of Mexico, and we
were no sooner out than everyone was clamoring to get back again;
only they found that Wilson had everybody out and had openly
declared that he would have no intervention in Mexico so long
as he is President. The consequence was that Hardus, Henning,
and Hector left yesterday for the second time for Laguna Campeche.

Mr. Bond. -2-

I have now given up the idea of bothering the United
States Government any more. I am now working to my own Govern-
ment. I interested the British Ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring Rice,
so much that I personally will leave New York via Vera Cruz for
Mexico City, to interview the British Ambassador in Mexico City.
To that end I have my credentials for the British Embassy here
as well as a personal letter from Sir Cecil Spring Rice to the
Ambassador in Mexico City. My object is to unite all Britishers
as much as we possibly can, and get the proper protection from
the British Government that must be given to us, especially now
under the circumstances, who are not Americans; and it may lead
that I may be a sort of a special representative in so far as
the British Government is concerned in Mexican affairs.

This I write confidentially, and hope you keep it to
yourself. While I have no doubt of accomplishing it, I do not
want anybody else to know it except a true friend like yourself,
as I know you are always interested in my movements.

The political situation in this country seems to be
in doubt. If the Republicans had nominated Theodore, I was
then certain of the result; but now since Mr. Hughes is a
nominee and there is a sort of a dessension among the Progressives,
which does not in any way scare me, it will all depend upon what
impression Mr. Hughes will make on the electors. Of course,
I arrived in Philadelphia from Mexico just two days after the
nomination was given Mr. Hughes, and in the same evening I wrote
Colonel Rosevelt a very strong letter urging him not to accept
the nomination from the Progressives. As I said in my letter,
neither he nor Mr. Hughes could be elected, and to elect Mr. Wilson
for the second time would mean a great calamity to the future
prosperity and integrity of this country. Well, the rest you
know. I feel satisfied that Mr. Hughes, if elected as President,
will do the right thing towards the blue-blooded Americans. He
realizes the wrongs and evils of this administration, and I
strongly believe that he will be a great educator to the sleeping
voter.

Now you, my friend, who have just been East, are a man
of affairs, well educated, level headed, and a son of a great
Republican, Judge Bond, whose opinion I still value highly today
when he so freely gave it in his well-thought-out conversations.
Don't sleep. Do your might. Tell people what you know and never
rest; but work to get a Republican President elected.

Mr. Bond. -3-

Remember me kindly to Mrs. Bond, and tell her from me that the Triumvirate met in Philadelphia, and had their photograph taken so she can see what Merritt and I look like after an absence of sixteen years. I know that she has a very devoted husband, and I am sure from what I know of him and the care he has taken of her, that she still looks as young, as charming, and as beautiful as when I said "Good-bye" to her the evening I left with my family for Mexico City. Some time I hope to see her and the two boys. Marshall I have seen, but naturally when I see her and the two boys, he will not be a thousand miles away, and I shall not miss him.

You read this letter to her. I know you will swell up a little. Nevertheless, it is the truth, and in expressing the truth one has nothing to regret.

Now, Marshall, when you are on your fishing trips, camping life, hunting expeditions, or prospecting operations, always remember that a word from you to the Art Club will reach me wherever I am.

Thanking you again for letting me hear from you, and with kindest and best wishes for the welfare of Mrs. Bond as well as yourself and the two boys, I am,

Sincerely yours,

WDS/KP.

McBain

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RECEIVED AT KINGMAN, ARIZ.

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EL PASO, TEX. NOV 13, 1916

MARSHALL BOND,

KINGMAN, ARIZ.

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