Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-21


SOMEBODY TREspAssING ON OLD Blocks
GRoUND.-The following manifesto from Old
Block. appears in the columns of the Nevada
National.
10 the President Directors, and the Stock.
holders Of the alta Mining Company No >,
Greeting:
You will please to take notice that YOU
are approaching my mining ground, and this
is to forbid your working beyond yodr own
limits. Should you trespass on my ground,
| shall visit you with the vengeance of the
great Evanick Order of the One Thousand
and One Therefore take warning.
This notice may appear apochryphal to
you, working as you are, two hundred feet
from the surface of the ground, but | can
establish my claim beyond precedent, which
a jury of your own countrymen will consider
valid, before any Justice of the Peace, not
interested iii disputed claims. Ny proofs are
that-On the first day of the first moon in
the year one thous nd and one, under the
license of the great Confucius, | was working
the ground Immediately adjoining yours on
the Northwest-see archives in the hands of
the Secretary of the Order, duly endorsed
by the Grand High Chief, with the Grand
Seal A. NJ. A. stamped thereon. In those
days the ridge where you are located was a
valley and the bed of a creek-proofs, the
water washed gravel you are working in,
and the timber, wood, &c, you SO frequently
meet with in driving your drifts.
was driven from my labors, which
should otherwise have worked out, by ca
tastrophe which suddenly stopped all mining
for considerable time. One morning the
air was filled with smoke, strange rumblings
were heard in the bowels of the earth, as il
it had taken powerful dose of blue mass,
the night before This was followed by a
tremendous shake like an ague chill, with an
explosion of melted matter, ashes, cinders,
&c, &c., which appeared to have laid heavi-
! ly upon the earth's stomach, and which filled
up the valley in an incredible short space OF
time, turned the course Of the stream, and
formed the ridge where you are now at work.
barely had time to stick my axe in the
stump of a tree and fly for life.
Here then is another proof-about fifty
feet from the line where you are now at work,
you will find the stump of live oak tree
(which had cut DOWN. with my axe, or
what remains of it, sticking in the northeast
side. The handle is probably decomposed
and the axe much rusted, (see Judge Ed
| luOuuS anu JOHu ~. Lane D SplIlJudl IepOllej y
but by careful inspection you will see the
word "Confucius" stamped on the pole, and
the great seal A. NJ. a. on the side, just
above the eye
had contract to furnish large amount
of gold, to aid in expelling the infdels from
the Holy Land In consequence of being
compelled to abandon my claim, failed in
my contract, and the seige of Jerusalem wa'
continued much longer than 1t would have
been but did not feel uneasy, as jumping
claims, in those days, was unknown, and the
rights of the members of the order of One
thousand and One were duly respected, but
in these latter days l find that after mar
has done all the work and gets fairly into
good paying ground, the Turks and lnhdel'
set up counter claim to take possession o
his ground Take due warning, then, under
the penalty of having Confucius touch of
another earthquake to drive you away ant
protect those who know what kind of Il pole
a chicken prefers to roost on.
Yours, calmly, OLD BLOCK.