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...
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...
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....
Imperial Entanglements
However rich Arizona mines have been, there is a suspicion that, before the days of copper, their net...
SKULDUGGERY ‘The Derby Mining Claims’: Progress Report Dec. 14, 1906
A fictitious ‘progress report’ on The Derby Mining Claims Thumb Butte District Yavaai County, Arizona, U.S.A. by Booth,...
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...
Peno Alto No. 2 x Penos Alto No. 1
Similarly, the Peno Alto No. 2 lode was located before the 1906 Penos Alto No. 1 clim, in...
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...
The Graft Checklist
Information required when considering the purchase of mining properties: 1. Name of Property 2. Location 3. Acreage. 4....
Isabella Lode Claim: Thumb Butte Mining District
This mining claim, the name of which is the Isabella Mining Claim, situate on lands belonging to the...
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...
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,...
Little Daisy- Jerome, J.J Fisher’s ‘Discovery’
The article below from the Arizona Weekly Journal Miner dated January 10th, 1900, just about sums it all...
‘Original Surveys’ :…’eliminated incentives that encouraged fraud and corruption.’
From the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management module on ‘Original Surveys’: The Interior Department...
Highland Park, AZ Thumb Butte Mining District B.L.M. ‘Master Title Plats’
This is the filed original Master Title Plat of record with the Arizona Bureau of Land Management for...
Township 14 North Range 4 West GSRM, S.W. Foreman, John Wasson -Surveyor General 1875
General Land Office plat of record for the Township 14 North Range 4 West in the Gila and...
Madizelle Mining Company: Arizona Magazine
From ARIZONA magazine: “In this issue will be found the stock offering of the Madizelle Mining Company, designated...
Cancelled: Mineral Survey MS1577, J.J. Fisher Yavapai County Black Hills Mining District 1902
Just one example of the plethora of problematic & administratively cancelled Mineral Survey Plat’s of this era. There...
How to Correctly Interpret the Fictitious and Falsified Plat and Field Notes Returned By the U.S. Deputy Mineral Surveyors: Knocker Hermann
Aha…a clear and present ‘cloud on the monuments‘ themselves.
Fool me once….
Information required when considering the purchase of mining properties...or the purchase of ‘stock’ in fairy dust factories. This...
George W. Sarano, Swindler: Ideal Mining Company, Prescott AZ
Now why would anyone bring a bar of Gold into the town of Prescott worth $400 in 1901?...
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
Mineral Survey 2424 MS2424 Prescott, Arizona Yavapai County; ‘Highland Pines’ >Enter the Unicorn<
The ‘PLAT’ shown above, Mineral Survey No. 2424, is fictitious. This is Sheet 1. See Sheet 2 below-...
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...
John Wasson, Surveyor General Land Office G.L.O. 1871, Arizona Territory: T14N Range 3 West G.S.R.B.M.:
John Wasson, U.S. Surveyor General Arizona Territory 1871 The original Township 14 North Range 3 West Government Land...