Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-16
ADVERTISEMENT
Caledonia Tunnel Company,
NORTH Americnn Company,

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, 80 that the public may understand
the imsey title by which the 50 called North Amer
lean claim the ground in dispute. There Is no such
company as the North American having location
or claim OH any ground within half mile OF that
claimed by the present North American company
trIct. There was, however, location made In Octo
her 1889 known as the A. n. smith Company, from
which the so-calied North american COMPANY pre-
cannot BY any Just construction OF the notice and
record Of the same be made 10 embrace the ledge
claimed by the North American company and CAFE
donia Tunnel company at the present time. The 10
cation above referred to was S1 feet north oil the
mouth OF the present Baltimore American company
CAPTAIN SMITH COMPANY CLAIMS, RECORDED OCTOBER
18TH, le5y.
We the undersigned have this day located fourteen
claims on this quartz ledge, situated about one mile
from Gold HUI on OF near ahs rosa 70 larson, VIZ
cut and running south towards American Flat and
near the road nine hundred 600 feet south; and
eleven D claims north and up the hill, with all It's
dips, angles and variations, and all the privileges
necessary Tor working the same.
1t will be seen by any one taking the trouble
TO 90 to the spring cut spoken OF and looking al
the above notice, that Capt smith Co., could not
nv auy possibility, have then intended TO claim
can the North American company expect to hold
The ground on which they are now at work. We
will proceed 10 state Lne manner IN which INT
Caledonia company became the rightful. and unit
recently the undisputed owners Of the ledge and
ground on which the North American company have
sEsGsd PAT Il MORE took cOnrac,
A. n Smith & Go. to run q tunnel to the ledge claim
ed in the foregoing notice. The tunnel was run
let to 4. y. Phillips John o Meara and Joseph Shaw
who continued the tunnel some eighty feet further
when it was again re-let to Dan McMurchie. Mr.
McMurchie agreed TO run the tunnel TO the ledge
IL In nf n nTNll.
Of feet In the ledge when struck. Alter 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 fol
which he had been running. and which fulfilled his
contract. ....
the LEDGE stating that was no ledge not their prop
erty and not fuhlment Of his contract, and IL he
did not continue the tunnel back west In the hill
would employ some else to do so. At this time
the LapOrte Company located the ledge which the
A. N. Smith & Co. refused to receive as theirs
which they undoubtedly had right TO do, and
have since held peaceable possession OF and cOntn
ued to work the same one of the lodges Of the Cal
edonia Tunnel Company, up to the present time
Mr. McMurche continued the tunnel 100 to $50 feet
stIii further west during which time, and until re-
Gently tire A. n. Smith Co., now calling Them
selves the North American Company, did not CLAIM,
or pretend to have any claim to the ground located
held and worked as the Laporte by the Caledonia
Company, and have refused to make good to Nc
Murchle 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
10 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
10 the east and erected their works on the CaledO
mia Tunnels ground and by chicanery and trickery
OF every kind, they have deluded number OF peo-
ME unacauainted with the facts In the to be-
lief that they have title to the ground they now
claim. The Laporte Ledge has been worked by the
Laporte Company and as conservation G Of me
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 to the ground cannot
he successfully disputed, they have at immense
ishonr and expense run their tunnel distance OF
go feet, while the A. N. Smith Co., or the North
American, or whatever company they VIII next eau
abandoned whatever shadow Of title they had, Tor
we ind that they did no work from Oct 1850, until
April 49, and then worked around without any APP
psrent reference to the ground which their notice
Claimed for couple OF months, and then as they
could and nothing which would Justify further
work they stopped altogether for about years, OF
from July 81 TO July So when owing 70 a,
again commenced prospecting around, and hnaIly
settled about 900 feet east and north OF the GROUND
claimed In their notice. and on the range OF the La
port ledge, held and worked by the Caledonia Ten
The foregoing statements-with many others that
might be gfven-are absolutely correct, and can,
and WILL at the proper time, be established by conf
petent witnesses to the satisfaction Of the courts
and Juries Of the Territory. In the meantime MT.
Bob Apple, who has been chiefly instrumental IN
misleading public In regard 70 the merits Of thus
Company's claim, and puilng It into unmerlted
notoriety, having enriched himself at the expense
Of his dupes. viii be certain to have sold his last
share Z the 50 called North h hssS1 EGqR65G