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...
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Stonewall Loeb George U. Young was an Arizona politician and a strategic planner who aligned his goals with...
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...
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...
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...
Imperial Entanglements
However rich Arizona mines have been, there is a suspicion that, before the days of copper, their net...
‘Brevity is the Soul of Wit’
Retracement Surveyor Beware, Fraudulent surveys may be anywhere The recent article in the July/August issue of American Surveyor...
Protection Lode Claim
This is the Notice of mining location for the lode claim ‘Protection’. It does not say Protection #1,...
Madizelle x the All
A confidence game: The Story of the Madizelle swindle. Base of operation, The (former) Derby Mining Company, Prescott...
Humbert x Italian
There is a location notice recorded for the Humbert lode claim dated Jan 8, 1904, located by George...
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...
Penos Alto No. 1 x Highland x Happy Strike
Is the Penos Alto No. 1 valid if located in 1906, well after the Happy Strike, but purportedly...
Happy Strike x Puritan x Iona
The original Sept 9 1904 Notice of location for the Happy Strike lode provides a 1500’ x 600’...
IRON MASK x IRON MASK
Mineral Survey 2424 is comprised primarily of these amended notice of location records, that are still inconsistent with...
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...
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,...
Arizona ‘Mineral Surveys’
A list of some very interesting records to pay special attention to, Mineral Surveys in Arizona from the...
Land Conscience: The ‘Missing’ Mineral Surveys of Arizona
Missing Mineral Surveys Notes & Plats (Bureau of Land Management February 1st 1986) Arizona
Mining the Investor: Remarkable Stock Sale Offer
The Arizona Republican, Wednesday Morning, June 14, 1916 A Clear Statement of the Remarkable Stock Sale Offer of...
‘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...
Madizelle Mining Company: Arizona Magazine
From ARIZONA magazine: “In this issue will be found the stock offering of the Madizelle Mining Company, designated...
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...
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...
T.C. Hill Camp, Ideal Camp, Lowry Camp, Derby Camp or Madizelle Mining Camp? Take your pick…
From the Camp: Fred J. Smith did not exist at the property until late in 1911, when he...
Puritan NO. 3 Amended Location Certificate, Law of 1899, George U. Young 1903
The only certificate of record for the referenced Puritan No. 3 lode claim of U.S. Mineral Survey 2424,...
Office of George U. Young: President and General Manager Young Mines Company Ltd., Madizelle Mining Co.
Letter of December 16, 1920, to caretaker of the land Fred J. Smith at Prescott, during the land...
AMENDED LOCATION NOTICES: (q) RELOCATION
“An amended location notice relates back to the original location notice date. No amendment is possible if the...
John J. Fisher: United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor, Prescott, Arizona
Appointment of John ‘J.J.’ Fisher, United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor Prescott Arizona. J.J. Fisher is one of 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,...