Curious Case of ‘The Derby’
Put into ‘Evidence’ What lease is being referred to here in this letter from E.M. Sanford to George...
Yavapai County Treasurer’s Deed
No Redemption In 1947, A Treasurer’s Deed to the Highland Pines ‘premises’, Mineral Survey 2424 was issued and...
A land patent to Air.
First Impressions The U.S. land patent 818945, is in essence a quitclaim deed to nothing~that exists nowhere. Amongst...
U.S. Patent Deed to Highland Pines
The Puritan #3 and the Protection No. 2 Lode Claims The original application for U.S. mineral land patent...
Renting the Lowry Claims
The Golden Rule The Derby, the Madizelle property and the Lowry claims are all one and the same....
The Rule of 3: No. 1
Puritan, Peno Alto, Derby Creating is fun, creating in three’s is even more fun! The rule of three...
What’s Done in the Dark
How the Derby became the Madizelle Derby Mining Company, a corporation, by George U. Young its president, (E.M....
25 Mining Claims Bought & Paid: July 1, 1920, Madizelle Mining Company, United States Land Office
Attorney in Fact Department of the Interior Mineral Entry No. 045620, United States Land Office Phoenix Arizona, Application...
Madizelle Mining Company, claimant 419.692 Acres of Land: $2,100.00
IN RE Mineral Application Proof of Sums Paid ‘To the Receiver of the Local Office for Land’, $2,100.00...
Survey of Lode Claims for Patent: Royal A. Johnson, 1892
Important to Mine Owners Circular regarding Locations of Lode Claims, and the Survey of Same for Patent. Department...
Romancing The Stone: M. Ellen Young
Mary Ellen Young was wife of George Ulysses Young. On April 11, 1907, about 90 days out from...
OHIO Lode Claim @ Lowery-Hill Mine: Norman Hale & S.P. Hill, 1901
LODE-VEIN LOCATION Norman Hale and ‘S.P.’ Hill Notice of Mining Location dated January 21st, 1901 for the OHIO...
MINING SCAMS: Department Mines & Mineral Resources, ARIZONA
“A time honored method to bulk the public of millions of dollars is the ubiquitous mining swindle.” –...
Puffing & Bluffing: ‘Madizelle Group’ Sold in 1911?
There are seemingly endless examples of the twenty year long elaboration provided by George U. Young, such as...
The Cook’s are Booked
Pre-Mineral Survey 2424 Final entries that would one day become the foundation for J.J. Fisher and Frank S....
Land Conscience
Thievery Corporation ‘There is one part of the surveying business that Benson had down pat, and he has...
Highland x Penos Alto No. 1 x Peno Alto No. 2
Highland Lode: The location notice of mining location for the Highland lode claim shows it was located by...
Puritan x Puritan 2
The original Notice of location for the Puritan No. 2 lode claim has the 1500’ distance running an...
IONA LODE CLAIM CONFLICTS: Puritan, Puritan No. 2, Happy Strike and Peno Alto No. 2
M.S. 2424 The Mineral Survey of record clearly does not accurately account for these pre-existing senior rights when...
Mineral Survey 2424 MS: Sheet 2 ‘The Derby Lodes’
Patented in 1921 via serialized United States Mineral Patent # 818945 to ‘Madizelle Mining Company’, was the mining...
Highland Pines Plat “E” a Portion of Mineral ‘Survey’ NO. 2424: yeah…but not really.
American Title Association Est. 1907, Volume XXXV Number 3, March 1956
AMENDED LOCATION NOTICES: (q) RELOCATION
“An amended location notice relates back to the original location notice date. No amendment is possible if the...
George U. Young: Mines & Mining Stock Bought and Sold, 1904 Letter
Mining the Investor letter dated November 21, 1904, from George U. Young via ‘Camp’ at Derby Mine stock,...