Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-04-25

TlNtu at from ptTsouitl oDsSINdtiOn.
Was it not better 10 thus give the naked 7
fact than to advance such theory as 9
Heusch did-that the force which could ,
make great assure in solid quartzite
could not force n way through slush?
They assail Mr.. Reyes investigation OF I
the cut from the Panaca shaft to incline
NJ because he says be could find no ore !
between the two points. l
defy, gentlemen, any man to ind ore in
place and continuous in those tracings.
Why did the plaintiffs take 50 many
assays from the cut, if prospects could
be got so unfaiinglys Gentlemen, is it
not strange that honest miners, working
three long years, could net find paying
ore in this original Panaca location,
when few soft-handed experts can 20
on the ground and prove it rich vein?
But men change their opinions. Alpine
us Bull, Raymond, James Hardy and all
the others now fighting for Panaca.
once thought Panaca utterly worthless.
But Col. Raymon did not then own the
Panaca titles. He reminds me of old Col.
Rodgers, who, after having several times
been brought bad eggs for his breakfast,
said to the waiter, 'd-n it, bring me
some fried eggs. with a Government
stamp on them, and / guess they'll be !
good then" When the Colonel got his .
deed, covered over with Government and |
State stamps, Panaca was all right. On .
March Is, 1864, two-foot hole was dug;
in March, 1871, the Hermes location was
made, outside Of and beyond all con-
tested ground, and a deep shaft was
sunk; and now, by virtue OF that little
hole, the valuable developments Of the
Hermes are claimed; now, after $50, 900
has been openly and VIGOROUSLY ex-
pended in the Hermes, they come here
and talk about intrigue and secrecy in
locating and opening the Hermes mine.
True, the chief owners and locators OF
the mine had been in the employ OF the
Raymond Il Ely Company, and they had,
through their faithfulness and good man
agement, made that company success;
and, for that reason, the opposing coun-
sci pretend to say they could not inau-
gurate and carry on independent enter
prises. They can never own any mining
property in this district, because they
worked for the Raymond a. Ely Com
pany. The attorney criticized at great
length the testimony of experts Heusch
and Wescoatt, and again pointed out the
lameness and inconsistency of the theo-
ries by which they sought to prove a
continuous ledge. And Reyes is at
tackled because he could not, by merely
looking at piece of rock, tell exactly
what it would ASSAYS attacked because
he frankly says that he does not know
why the vsin was not forced up from
the surface he simply gave you the fact
that the ledge does not reach the surface.
HiSl EpG
Mr.. Keyes he would have you discredit
his testimony. John X. James, one OF
their experts, knows how to take rock
out and work it, but he cuts sorry fig
ure when he comes on to the witness
stand as an expert-that's not exactly in
his line. Tom McMasters, too, is a
good square man, but he is one of the
class VINO always think their onl-
, ployers are about right. Some men nat
urally sleep aud dream and think on the
side they are interested in; and these in
, huences at last have their effect on the
very heart. Now, don't believe Tom
McMasters would wilfully swear to a lie,
but he certainly found the ore connec-
: ton between the Panaca shaft and in
. cline NJ because he wanted to. Yves.
: coat got his prospects in the cut by get
ting down ON his knees and working q
> little ore out of small crack with his
peu-knife. These witnesses may think
. there is II ledge exposed in that cut; they
! have sworn so; but l tell you, gentle
y men, no man living, whose mind is un
Influenced and unbiased, can find ledg,
:. there. Now, about Colonel Lishtner'
. infdelity to the Raymond a. Ely Com
pany: has it not been shown that afte
he had driven the Hermes shaft dow
. deep he went to Mr.. Hearst and imploret
: him to advance him the necessary CAPT
: tai to buy Nos. l, 2 and on the Nam
:. moth ledge for the Raymond l. Ely Com
u pany? - am" he said, their super
!; intendent, and l must protect thei
rights, and those claims are all the Ray
= mond & Ely Company claim to have
y right to-" Does that look like an at
0 tempt to defraud the Raymond x Ell.
e Company? How could his con
u clusion of the extent of the Ray
u mond & Ely ground be wrong
- Had not all the attorneys and Off
II GERS of the Raymond & Ely Compan
y admitted that the Panaca location wa
= not made in accordance with any law c
ID the district, State or United States, tina
W it had been abandoned If it ever wa
10 good, and that it was utterly worthless
" James Hardy, there, himself, would hav
I. to swear that he thought the Panac
AZ location worthless, il he were put on tn
&c stand. By their answer in the McDeI
81 mott case they have themselves eternal
y and forever barred, SO far Us they Of
&c concerned, the Panaca location. Nov
~ gentlemen, on what ground can you fin
~ verdict for plaintiffs on the Panae
20 location? Would it be because the loo.
~ tors repealed all the laws under whic
"a they made the location? Because She
"a wood and vandemark left the ground IL
~ years, only to return to the district whe
~ it had become famous? Because ii
u Raymond & Ely Company had then
~ selves utterly ignored and disclaimed a
70 rights under the Panaca location? B.
o' cause the Mormon locators were pr
W vented from coming back by Brigham
~ Is it because the Raymond Il Ely @
~ have done the first swearing, and ha'
's' got an injunction on us? Now, gentl
=. men, am not prejudiced against al
~ parties to this suit on personal ground
si- But am prejudiced against an atteml
ne to strip men Of their property by settil
a' up the merest shadow of an adver
Nv right, and right which they themselv
ne had disclaimed. am prejudiced again
- ~ them for standing uncomplainingly
~ while the Hermes Company spent tho
an sands and thousands Of dollars. a
no prejudiced against Colonel Raymond
. ne refusing to compromise with Mr.. Hear
~ NJ when he should have done SO. a
30 prejudiced against the plaintiffs becaus
". if they succeed, they will invalidate I
eu majority of the mining titles in this d
:. trict, and throw 1900 men out of ell
+" ployment. l am prejudiced against c.
Raymond because he seeks to influen
, witnesses and jurymen by threatening
,ee, close his mine if he loses this case. TT
o,u attorney sarcastically addressed the ju