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Show latter were1 kindly treated and when ' they had become congenial ,, in the j self same Cause, on the ; day above, mentioned the district was organiz-, ; ed, and C. F, Cox was elected . Dis- i tnct recorder, and appointed a com- i mittee, to draft a code of District ; Mining Laws.- , ;r . . "They have since done about 1000.00 worth of assessment work on mining claims in said j district. Some have thought the pre was a blanket vein but it runs in,. leads from Northeast to Southwest ..and is found 18 feet belowjthe surface in the Mammoth Minning Shaft, sunk by tl e Provo jlfinning ,Com-pany ,Com-pany which is known , as ( the , Arizona Ari-zona Mining and Jlfilling , Company. Com-pany. Another Company called . the ',Fredon;a Minning Company and also one called the Shonesburg Company f diave been . i organized The assays on the ore runs from $1.5o to $23.75 gold and 16 to 57 per -cent copper and was considered by. all who have examined itr to be very valuable r propertie8v vS " ;ilf . Mining 'District On Buckskin' - Mountains. -. ' This district was organized on the 6th day of April, 1896, : and : is known as the "Warm- Spring ""Mining ""Min-ing District," in Loconino County Arizona, was organized by 9V mine of -said 't district; " These I were discovered and "located Lar Bebee and several r bthcrs. yrch 1893, who done some wbrfe I few- "claims and abandoned JJ? although reported havingj rf ceived 'oo.oo assky on some j of the ore,:' The principal body;, j of ore being copper, or atieastthe-sur- f ace showing, and it being so far from railroad facilities, .they deferred defer-red doing any more with the location loca-tion until a more " convenient time, and thereby forfeited their claims, some of which E. L. Robertson relocated re-located and has held up to the present pres-ent time. In February, 1896, the Millett . boys of Shonesburg and Ozra DeMill were informed of these prospects by Oscar Bebee and encouraged en-couraged them to prospect there, and on the first of April following started and arriving in Fredonia on the 3rd, were informed that there was a great mining . excitement around Jacobs Lake, on the Buckskin Buck-skin Mountains, which excited their curiosity still more, but they did not exhibit it and slowly pursued their journey on to the precious goal, where they arrived on the 4th .and were suspiciously met by severalKex-cited severalKex-cited prospectors who were skulking through the forest of lofty'pines, 'locating 'lo-cating everything that had a color of any kind, but evidently failed to secure se-cure the richest deposit ,so the Millett boys were fortunate, enough to secure se-cure equally as good claims as any that had already been located. As soon as the Provo prospectors saw that the last arrivals were harmless and only desired equal rights, the . |