MacDonald v. Cluff

DE CONCINI, Justice.

In April, 1942, D. R. Walker and M. E. Tally, prospecting in the Pioneer Mining District some two and one-half miles south of Superior, Arizona, found perlite ore, a basalt mineral, and located several claims, one of which they named the Arnette. Within a few days of the discovery, they made and posted on the claim their location notice, and filed it with the County Recorder of Pinal County; they erected stone monuments, one at each corner of the Arnette claim and one in the center of each end line; and they dug a discovery shaft which they claimed was over the depth of…