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To: JACK R. SMITH JR. who wrote (10438)	5/22/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

Arkansas Jack, enjoy the turnips, but do not touch mine (VBG). I am waiting for a newbies to jump here and post "what are all those Turnips stuff", but apparently, we are all on this thread "old timers". Zeev

To: JACK R. SMITH JR. who wrote (10438)	5/23/1999 11:30:00 AM
From: Chuca Marsh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

The Heck with the TA, go for the Basics: RE<<..Page 10 The TravelerMay 1999...2 other Pages not scanned.. ...august 1858...Yavapai....raids ...25 man force to keep Gila Safe... ~wlio began raids a Ihe minus and prospectors living in whal was called Gila City.( Gila Bend?) The Overland Mail Company.... responded by to keep its route along the Gila safe. Swilling led the group on ral a'i~ks against tile Yavapai, followingthernas far north as what is now Prescott By the winter of 860, Swilling had left the Gila( east of Yuma - so that is near Maxam's Peoria Claims area-BTW) and the census reported him in the Pinos Altos mining Camp near Silver City, New Mexico While there. the Civil War erupted and Jack was conscripted into the Confederate army. Swilling, disgusted with Confederate policy of taking cattle from local citizens, deserted in the summer of 1862. By fall, Swilling had joined tile Union Army under General Carleton. He was dischaged within a few months. Swilling joined the Walker Party that made its way from New Mexico to the Hassayampa and up to Lynx Creek in the Bradshaws looking for gold in 1862. Rich Hill & Wickenburg Jack Swilling then joined up with the party Abraham Peeples organized in la Paz that Pauline Weaver and some Indians guided to the gold riches on Antelope Peak and Rich Hill near today's Congress and Yarnell. One nugget Swilling carried with him from Rich Hill for several years he said was the first nugget found on Rich Hill in1862. Rich Hill yielded more than $1 million in nuggets in the years that followed the Peeples Party discovery. The nugget Jack Swilling toted as a memento was about the size of a man's three forefingers from the firstjomts to the tips and weighed five ounces. When discovered it was worth about $90 in the gold price oftile day. Jack managed to get the National Bank of Arizona to loan him $100. on it at one time. Then he later got "Buck the Barber" in Phoenix to make him a similar loan and forgot to redeam the nugget. Gambler Caribou Brown got possession and housed the nugget in Ben Buller's safe at the Capitol Saloon It was Butler's in 1895, long after Swilling's death, and Caribou had rejected all attemps to ge the to wager it at faro or in any other game of chance. The Peeples Party divided the top of Rich Hill into equal shares of claims and formed the Weaver Mining District in 1863. Swilling worked his claims out on Rich Hill, then prospected on south on the Hassayampa and in the area of Henry Wickenburg's find at Vulture ( Mine )( Mountain-Road). He ended up with several mines including the Big Rebel Mine on the eastern edge of the Vulture Lode in the Randal District.In 1865 he sold theBig Rebel along with the Chase Mine in the Hassayampa District and a year later had built one of five stamp mills that were processing ore along the Hassayampa from the Vulture and other near mines Wickenburg Shootout In addition to operating his mill on the Hassayampa, Swilling rode express mail between Prescott and the Pima Villages near Tucson from about 1865 through 1867 This put him in Wickenburg often where his reputation as aheavy drinker who had better not be crossed when drunk grew considerably one day in 1867. It was May in 1867 that a man described only as a "Chileno" and variously labeled a saloon keeper, desperado and robber let it be known around town that he was going to kill Jack Swilling on sigght. The man apparently trying to intimidate the Mexican population of Wickenhurg with such talk, as the Mexicans knew well Swilling was a man who would kill if crossed or challenged. Jack had never laid eves on this man threatening to kill him. Swilling was on a drinking spree at the time according to his friend Fred Henenry. As Swilling staggered around town enjoying himself the "Chilero" got a double barreled shot gun and followed him in the shadows. Henry and others in town intervened and the Chileno gave up his plot. The Chileno was gone from there. ....Jack was latter put in Yuma Prison and after hius death was found INNOCENT of all charges. This is a part of the old history ... Ti4n~ To Page 6 ..>> Chuca P.S.- I have 3 miles of washes feeded in from Rich Hill and the Octive Mine. While were were an Invitee to the Rich Hill < Prospectors Assn > Ghost Town- Stanton....we walked the area and were told og Potato Size Nuggets found there some years ago and that 50 of the Material of the Rich Hill had been...washed down stream...We are now saying...we found Visible Gold in by one of the washes 4 miles downstream as well as south of the Octave Mine. Flakes only...but the stuff is all over there in small quanities now...with Weaver chreek and Hassey Influences ( 6 miles away to where I found and to OGM..)well, I await Mike McKays results! Martinez and Antelope are not this guys Jack...Jackolope Creek! Well, Jack, I thought that ths would interest you( and every one else even if not named Jack!).