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people who had bought lots on the first sale ever appeared to 
pay the balance or complete the purchase. For a time it 
looked as though Mr. Stone and his associates had lost a 
great prize, and that the others had won, but, as the poet 
says, ‘‘Time at last sets all things even,’’ which was thor- 
oughly verified in this case. There was some dispute as to 
what the town should be named, some favoring Cornwall, 
after old Cornish mines in England, but it was finally de- 
cided to call it Galena. 
‘““Mr. Patrick Murphy, known, and very properly so, as 
‘The Wizard of the Lead and Zinc Fields,’ had, through 
Mr. S. M. Ford, obtained a half-interest in the first-named 
property, now belonging to the South Side Mining and Manu- 
facturing Company. Mr. Murphy declared from the start 
that it was too bad to sell such valuable mining property for 
a few thousand dollars for residence purposes, but as he had 
bound himself to assist in making it a town if possible he 
did so with the good faith that always characterized him. 
Looking back, however, after a lapse of twenty-five years, we 
find that the company which lost the town site has taken 
about two and three quarter millions in ore from the eighty 
acres, which otherwise would not have produced over $20,000 ; 
while the Galena Lead and Zine Company, whose land proved 
to be about as rich, found that they had sold for about $100 
each town lots which afterwards yielded from $10,000 to $40,- 
O00 each in ore. It was a case where the winner lost and the 
loser won. 
‘*But the struggle for the location of Galena was not all, 
nor hardly half, of the struggle for supremacy which was to 
occur. During the pericd of suspense over the Moll tract, 
Patrick Murphy, with 8S. L. Cheney, now of this county, ex- 
Gov. George A. Crawford, late of Colorado, and some others, 
had purchased 200 acres of land on the north side of Short 
creek, containing a high ridge, an ideal place for a beautiful 
city. Proximity to the mines seemed to be the first con- 
sideration, and the town of Empire City, which name Mr. 
Murphy and his party selected, was immediately adjoining, 
and the main street would have been less than a quarter of 
a mile further from the discovery shaft than the Moll tract. 
