Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-14
" NJ. " DIS
Gold Hill, n, T., MAY IL, lSlii.



We deem It but Justice TO the Caledonia tunnel
Company to publish correct statement Of facts in
relation TO the controversy between the Caledonia
COMPANY and the Company now styling Itself the
North American, that the public may understand
the flmsey title by which the so called North Amer
lean claim the ground In dispute. There Is no such
| company as the North American having location
| or claim on any ground within half mile of that
claimed by the present North American company,
known on the records of the Gold Hill Mining Dis
trIct There was, however, location maue In Ucto-
her lsJg known as the A. n. Smith Company, from
Tend 10 derive their title. This location however
cannot by any Just construction OF the notice and
record of the same be made TO embrace the ledge
claimed by the North American company and Gale
donna Tunnel company ut the present time. The To-
cation above referred to was 700 feet north OF the
mouth OF the present Baltimore American company.
a Ii will be seen by any one taking the trouble
TO 20 10 the spring cut spoken of and looking ut
the above notice, that Capt smith Co., could not,
by any possibility, have then intended to clainl nor
can the North American company expect TO hold
the ground on which they are now at work. We
will now proceed TO state the manner in which the
Caledonia company became the rightiul, ana until
recently the undisputed owners OF the ledge and
ground on which the North American company have
now erected part OF their works.
| In March, 1861 Rice & More took contract from
A. n Smith & Co. TO run tunnel to the ledge claim
| I'd in the foregoing notice The tunnel was run
about thirty or forty feet when the contract was re-
| let TO l.. T. Phillips, John y heara and Joseph shaw
who continued the tunnel some eighty feet further
when II was again re-let TO Dan McMurchle MT
McMurchie agreed to run the tunnel 70 tne ledge
\ of feet In the ledge when struck. After running
about 10 feet or less he struck and cut through
ledge and believing his contract completed he call
ed majority Of the company together, and before
witnesses rendered them the ledge as the one Tor
which he had been running, and which fulfilled his
That company refused before witnesses to accept
the ledge stating that no ledge not their prop
erty and not fulhlment OF his contract, and II ne
did not continue the tunnel back west in the hi,
10 where they supposed their ledge TO be, that they
would employ some one else TO do so. AT this time
the Lapore Company located the eEge whlc t 1ne
| which they undoubtedly had right to do, ana
have since held pcaceable possession Of and contn-
ued to work the as one of the lodges OF the Cal
| edonia Tunnel Company, up to the present time.
Mr. McMurchie continued the tunnel 100 TO $50 feet
still further west during which time, and until re
| selves the North American Company, did not claim
or pretend to have any claim to the ground located
held and worked as the LSPote oy the o SSs sG
| Murchie the terms Of his contract on the ground
that he did not run the tunnel west to where they
| claim their ledge TO be now, however, since they
have found by discoveries made by other companies
TO the north OF them that the main lead from the
Gold Hill mines runs, In all probability, through
| where the LaPOrte ledge, belonging to the Caledo-
mia Tunnel is located, they have shifted their claim
to the east and erected their works on the Caedo
MIA Tunnels ground and by chlcanery and trickery
| OF every kind, they have dcuded number OF peo-
pe unacquanted with the facts In the case TO be-
| lief that they have title to the ground they now
| claim. The Laporte Ledge has been worked by the
|
Caledonia Tunnel Company from the time of its first
location up to the present time this company have
not changed their stakes or bounds, not one Inch,
from the first location until now and as an evidence
of their belief that their title 10 the ground cannot
| be successfully disputed, they have, at immense
Iabour and expense, run their tunnel distance OF
1870 feet while the A. n. Smith Co., OF the North
| American, OF whatever company they Will next call
| themselves have, at different times, apparently,
| Abandoned whatever shadow Of title they had for
we find that they did no work from Oct. 1890 until
| April '6l and then worked around without any APP
parent reference to the ground which their notice
| Claimed for q couple Of months, and then as they
| could find nothing which would justify further
work, they stopped altogether for about years, Or
from July 81 10 July 63, when owing to discoveries
| made IN claims to the north Of American Flat, they
| again commenced prospecting around, and finally
settled about 900 feet east and north Of the ground
claimed In their notice, and the range Of the La
port ledge held and worked by the Caledonia Ten
mel company
The foregoing statements-wlth many Others that
| might be gfven-are absolutely correct, and can,
and will, at the proper time, be established by COM
Deteut witnesses to the satisfaction of the courts
| and turtles of the Territory. In the meantime MIR.
| Bob Apple who has been chiefly instrumental In
misleading the public In regard 70 the merits OF this
| Company's claim, and putting II into unmerited
notoriety, having enriched himself at the expense
Of his dupes will be certain TO have sold his last
share In the so called North American County:
myl+2t DAN McMURCHIE.