Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-03-29
The Great Mining Suit.
FULL PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY.
FRIDAY, March 2S.
FORENOON SESSION,

to it were blocked with men ca er to get |
seats when the doors were opened. At |
10 o'clock the Sheriff made his proclama-
ton, and a moment later every available |
seat was occupied. fr r4l |
Stephen Sherwood recalled-No one, to my |
knowledge, was in the district the day of the |
discovery except Vandermark, Hamlin. Sill, |
Box, Shirts and myself; there was no settlement |
at Panaca; Clover Valley the nearest settle |
ment, 40 or As miles from here were not many |
there; don't know when the settlement was es- |
tablished; most of the Glover Valley settlers |
then lived in wagons; the code of mining laws |
we brought from Salt Lake was in writing; |
Vim. Hamlin was chairman of the meeting; the |
laws were passed section by section, sections |
being changed rejected to suit our sense of
right and justice; they were adopted or changed
by vote; the MSS. as amended We carried to
Salt Lake; started back the next day after ad-
journment; were three weeks on the road to Salt
Lake, think procured books ETC.. in Salt Lake.
We again assembled at Salt Lake, oil being pres
ent except Hamlin and SILL when the records
were made and laws copied Hamlin and Sill re-
manned back in Glover Valley; at the Salt Lake
meeting We're the two Boxes, Vandermark, Shut
Shirts and myself; Shut my partner; l
bought the record book; the writing was done
by Shut, my deputy; Shut was my deputy
through my term of Office; after Shut had fin:
ished the copying we all compared
what he had written with the originals,
| and found the copying correct returned to
| Meadow Valley District on the LIST of June;
| lDe TWO BOXES, NanuerLluTk, ndlStOu, ouut,
| dy, McClusky, Rood, Townsend. vermilion Har-
ris, Falls, and may be Others returned with
me; they were not Mormons, but miners from
| Colorado, Idaho and other places; they came ex-
| pressly to develop Mines We brought with US
supplies and all kinds OF mining tools had
| custody OF the laws and records and brought
| them with me: the originals were with the
, records when l surrendered them to my success
sor in office kept the laws, ETC., in my tent at
the spring on Spring Mountain; kept them
| under lock and key; there were a number Of To-
cations made after my return from Salt Lake;
they were made under the laws Of the Meadow
Valley Mining district-the same laws that were
enacted at the Warm Springs in 1864; there were
| no objections to the laws that know Of from
| my return to the end of my official term the
laws were satisfactory to and recognized by all
| in the district; my deputy made records after
| my return: he made them as Deputy Recorder
1 of Meadow Valley district; they we're made in
| book Al" book "a" contains the laws; re-
moved my office from the spring to Panaca;
, can't tell the day OF removal-the latter part OF
| July, 1864; Panaca within the district re-
[ moved on account of Indian hostilities we went
to Panaca to fortify ourselves; built an adobe or
sod fort there; lived right in the fort: kept the
records there; had meeting in the fort to
amend the laws on the 18th Of July, 1865,
think; lived in the fort from removal to that
, time; the meeting was called by conspicuously
| posting > notices 90 days previously; wrote
) the notices; put up at Panaca, at Eagle VAL
ley, and forget whore the other was put up: at
, | the meeting were II. Chamberlain and VIM. Lit
tie of Eagle Valley and all the miners in this Sec
ton including Atchison. Lees, Townsend, Falls,
| Shut and think fhos. Box; can't name all now;
thought at the time all interested were present;
| there were no miners ut the Panaca ledge then;
!, the object of the meeting was to amend the laws
, we could lay our claims over until the Indian
: danger passed away; Shuts, Ktterman, Raston
| and Barter lived with me in the fort; we did
| nothing in this country but mine; that was our
; main object and legitimate business here. wit
!, ness was shown paper purporting to be the
laws as amended) Have seen this paper be.
fore; at the fort meeting laws passed to lay
= over our claims; they were written and put in
the records the proceedings OF that meeting
were reduced to writing; these 1.-THE paper giver
- him) are the proceedings; they were written by
Fallis my name is signed as Chairman my sue
cessor was Sanderson; don't know where San
y here for year or two; have not seen Sandersoi
q here in that time: in the spring Of 1866 1 CAV
, him, as my successor. all books and papers be
. longing to the Recorders office: he got bool
n "a" with the laws. and all papers belonging
h to the Meadow Valley district; after Sanderson'
election staid till the fall Of 1865, and cam
y back in the spring of 1866; was gone through tn
winter; next saw the records after turning then
If over when Falls was Recorder; they were in hi
I charge; saw the original book CA" helped Il
4 make locations in 1866; A d. Hutchins, VINO cam
: from Illinois, made some locations he came on
in 1866; he came to look at the mines; Hutchins
Shut and myself came up here from Meadow
J. Valley, and we made one location, ii not more
according to the laws of the Meadow Valley Min
ing DlStrlct; Falls recorded them III DOOk "a;
at Sanderson succeeded me; he was Recorder on
az year; Falls his deputy and succeeded him Il
Ia the office; Falls is, think, now at his home Il
~ Missouri; have not seen him here for q year 0
N two; saw book "a" with Colonel Thornton in tn
re fall of 1870; identified it to Col. Thorton; tn
h. laws were then in IT.; it was the indentical boo
. got in Salt Lake in 1864; was staying in this dis
L. trict in 1870, came in the spring of that veal
r, staid through the summer book "a" was the
he regarded as record book in the spring Of 1877
al John H. Ely was elected Recorder: ! was not her
~ in 1869; have not seen the original book sine
examing it with Col Thornton and Vandermarl
- in 1870 had paper, pen and ink on day Of dis
~, covery; notice was put up IL or Is fet
st northeast of the present Panaca shaft; wrot
notices and plated the ground with pen an
In ink; put down all the names Hamlin wante
ra put down; marked the ground on the surface
- stepping it off from point of discovery; fr.
as stepped from discovery point southwesterly q
as. feet and staked 1t for Hamlin's discovery CLAIM
ne than $50 feet for Pulsiier; then claim No. f
- Thomas Box; claim No. for Thomas NJ Bo
TO- and m yself No. 4; next Vandermark 200 fee
&c, then Shut 900 feet: we set stake on Box's cla
He with names and numbers; the stake ut disco
mr. cry was put up by myself, I think; split Il
=. stake and put the notice in it; then stepped c
It. 800 feet northeast of discovery, commencil
with No. 2; going northeast from Hsmlin
, claim were Hamlins brother Levitt, Chambe
he lain Barker, and the name Of man forget; mol
oet named were on the ground except IIamli
GOV yandermark, Box and Sill; Sill got Hamlir
all northeast claim: Sill got 200 feet northea
| OF HaMlip: S1llS name was WRITTEN, out not
NJ the plat; Hamljn gave Sill his location clai
lily on the northeast; all the claims the northea
.ial | were located by Hamin, they were given
81 | Hamlin for showing us the groaRd; at the el
Sal of the 300 feet on the northeast stake was e.
err with notice put on 1t which wrote; I KEEP,
ing | copy of the three notices put up, and record
f.r | them in the records on the northe,
~' notice were the names of some Of my sons o.
T. others; records were made Of copies Of the I
tices in Salt Lake, in the record book; they We
ecA recorded at the same time the laws were writ
ING | in tbs record book; the laws, think, came A
in order: the record book contained the recol
ng. Of the notices every time saw it. [Show
~ copy of the original location.l l don't KIN
~. how the name of Fitx got on the plat; an ext
oe sion is also on the copy which was not on
VS. original; except these changes believe this
,ril. be a correct copy Of the original location;
.a.t copy shows nearly all the records; rhos,
5ess was on No. southwest; the notice placed
IN his GROUND was identical with the record.
The plaintiffs turned the witness over to
defendants. 49,
the The cross-examination was long and rigid. .
we omit of course, those portions which
re- simply a repetition Of the answers on direct
his | animation. n
-, AFTERNOON SESSION.
~ Characterization, miners meeting
to Hot Springs was called verbally; did no worl
the mine when came back in 1857; l staid
day at the mine and then went to Panaca: W
hill from Panaca to Hike; staid at Hike till lat,
/. the fall, and then returned home: came bacl
ioCo tba ,pr;po IF 1870 AFTER the Meadow Valley c.