MARK LULLEY
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 669

Mark Lulley, was a pioneer, a man familiar with the roughness 
and hardships of the early mining times and who has taken a 
prominent part in the development of the territory. He is 
called "The Wandering Jew" and "The Prospector Pioneer" and 
is widely known and highly esteemed throughout the state.  
He was one of the earliest prospectors in the Santa Rita 
Mountain region, coming to Arizona in 1875 and going directly 
to that section, where he found at once several valuable 
mines which he sold to good advantage to some of the early 
operators.  Among these properties may be mentioned the 
Goldtree Mine, now the Alto, the Santa Rita group, the 
Joplin group and others which yielded handsomely in those 
early days.

After several years in Arizona, Mr. Lulley returned east and 
followed other callings for many years but the lure of Arizona 
had been cast upon him and about 1898 he returned, bent upon 
seeking in the Santa Ritas another fortune.  In furtherance 
of that desire he made a careful examination and study of 
these mountains and located several properties, some of which 
have proved profitable.  In 1898 he took up the Apache group 
of mines which he sold at a profit to T.R. French. of French 
Brothers, Cincinnati, Ohio and he lived in Cincinnati for a 
short time, becoming superintendent for that concern.  After 
one year, however, he returned, gaining possession of the 
Joplin group of mines and forming an operating company 
composed of many prominent business men in Arizona.  It was 
in 1901 that he took up the Wandering Jew claim and at his 
own expense bought a party of forty men from Nogales to 
Patagonia to inspect its resources.  He still holds title 
to a number of valuable mines and in the Wandering Jew, 
the M. and S. and other fine properties upon which he has 
done no little developing, he has opened fine veins of high 
grade ore.  These have given ample proof that they have the 
making of real mines and need the tough of capital to make 
them productive.    In his wanderings about the Santa Ritas 
Mr. Lulley has found many other good ledges and is ready and 
willing at all times to put those seeking such opportunities 
in touch with them.

Mr. Lulley possesses an individuality of character which 
has given rise to many interesting stories concerning his 
doings. In 1901 he captured two cub bears in the course of 
his wanderings and took them to Washington D.C. receiving 
an ovation at every point along the way, notably at Cincinnati, 
Ohio where he stopped.  These bear are now in the Zoo in 
Washington, the property of the United States government 
and are the original "Teddy" bears.

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