Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Stonewall Loeb George U. Young was an Arizona politician and a strategic planner who aligned his goals with...
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....
Entitlement to a Mineral Patent Under the Mining Law of 1872: Mineral Survey 2424
“U.S. Department of the Interior Memorandum M-36990, November 12 1997, Entitlement to a Mineral Patent. Introduction and Overview...
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...
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...
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....
Imperial Entanglements
However rich Arizona mines have been, there is a suspicion that, before the days of copper, their net...
Madizelle x the All
A confidence game: The Story of the Madizelle swindle. Base of operation, The (former) Derby Mining Company, Prescott...
Protection #3 x Humbert x Protection #2
The most easterly 50’ of the depicted Protection #3 would actually be the Humbert lode, senior in right....
Humbert x Italian
There is a location notice recorded for the Humbert lode claim dated Jan 8, 1904, located by George...
The Graft Checklist
Information required when considering the purchase of mining properties: 1. Name of Property 2. Location 3. Acreage. 4....
Prospectus: Madizelle Mining Company’s property, 1917
In the letter below from F.J. Kilner at the Empire State Building in Spokane Washington, dated May 14,...
George U. Young’s ‘Mammoth Mines’, Youngberg, Arizona, ‘Goldfield’: MS1130 & MS3886 -CANCELLED
Cancelled notations by the Arizona State director’s on the face of the original 1894 Plat of the Claim...
Lowry-Hill 1896 Notice of Mining Location Quartz (Lode) Claim
Original Notice of Mining Claim Location circa 1896, Yavapai Sheriff James R. Lowry (Lowery) and Thomas C. Hill....
Madizelle Mining Company, 1908 Articles of Incorporation; ‘Philadelphia’
What happened to the Derby Mine? The name of the corporation is (now) Madizelle Mining Company. A serialized...