Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-03-30
The Great Mining Suit.
FULL PROCEEDINGS SATURDAY.
SATURDAY, March 80.


FORENOON SESSION.
SheriH's proclamation made at IL |!
minutes after 10, and two minutes later
every seat was occupied.
j. N Vandemark called for plaintifs-was re-
sworn.-First came here in March, 1864; came
from Salt Lake with the two Boxes, Sherwood
and Peter Shirts. to find silver mine on the
Clara; left Salt Lake in February; went to the
Clara, and staid there three or four days with
out finding anything; then came here; arrived
in Meadow Valley on the 18th OF March, 1864;
started up here the next day, having heard that
Hamlin was here; missed the road and returned
to camp; the next day Thos. Box, Mr.. Sherwood
and myself came to the Panaca ledge on mule
back; We found it that day; arrived where the
corner of Main and Meadow Valley streets now
is, looked up the ravine and saw horse; went
up and saw Hamlin and Sill on the ground;
they said they had no objection to our taking
ground with them; examined the ledge and
thought 1t ran north and south; Sherwood, Box
and myself went to the southwest of what was
Pulsifer's claim; Mr. Sherwood wrote notice, set
up stake and put the notice on it the notice
tanned the names of locators with the number of
claim allotted each; the ground had been sur
veyed; Hamlin and Sill said the County Sur
veyor had surveyed it; the stake was set about
$50 feet from the old Panaca shaft; there was u
stake at the south end of the discovery claim:
went back to discovery, Is feet north of the old
Panaca shaft, when Hamlin and Sill said they
wanted more ground to the north; Hamlin and
feet north of discovery claim; Mr.. Sherwood
then made plat of the 1850 feet between the
north and south extremes of the ground; the
ore was of the galena GLASS; took some to Salt
Lake, returned to Meadow Valley that night,
and had miners meeting next morning; at the
meeting were Thos. Box, Peter Sill. Hamlin.
Sherwood and myself; Hamlin was
chairman and Sherwood Secretary; We organ
lied Meadow Valley District; the district was
made thirty miles each way from Hot Springs;
laws were reduced to writing they We're taken
to Salt Lake and there copied into the record
book; the laws were passed March 18, 1854; We
left that day for Salt Lake, going round by the
Glover Wash; we got into Salt Lake in April,
the Mormon Conference then being in session;
l am not Mormon; we returned TO get tools
and provisions to work the Panaca mine; at Salt
Lake we got record book in which the laws were
copied and claims recorded; the writing was
| done by Shut; Sherwood had carried to Salt
Lake copies Of the laws and all original notices
! Of locations held the notices to compare the
records with them; the plat was recorded exactly
according to the original; the claims were re-
| corded little different from the originals on
| suggestion Of Mr.. Shut; on the ground the To-
| Gators claimed collectively in the notices, and
their claims were recorded in the record book
| separately; Mr.. Sherwood was elected Recorder
| at the Meadow Valley meeting; he acted two
years; he was succeeded by Sanderson; Sander
son lives think, in Jacksonville, H.; don't
know who succeeded Sanderson; John Ely was
Recorder in 1870. (Shown copy of original
Panaca location.l believe this to be correct
| copy OF the original plat; have seen the original
often; six hundred feet have been added in this
| copy to the ground represented by the original
[Shown proceedings of miners meeting in 1865,
to amend the laws l know nothing about this
meeting: l was not present; we returned from
Salt Lake about the LIST of June; with us We're
Rood, Landy, Falls, Harris, Alderman, Nermil-
ion, Sherwood, and others can't recollect; we
bought a good supply of gruo and all kinds OF
tools: the next day after reaching Warm Springs
ii rs INV "a
and others came to the mine; the discovery hole
was probably two feet deep; the stakes were all
there, think, with notices. s we had left them;
we tried to find the course of the ledge; we made
cuts east and west, to find out the course OF the
ledge. [Shown map Of Panaea ledge.l under
stand the points on this map; west Of this
(pointing) shaft in 1864, there was quite a IA.
vine; we built a stone wall here, IN 1864
| when commenced work; 1t was thirty feet
| long and six feet high; built the wa Tor dump
| twenty-five feet south of the shaft We made this
east and west cut; the old Panaca shaft here We
sunk down IL feet; it went through soft rock
made another cut east of Panaca shaft; made
another one south of that sixteen or twenty Zee
long; the last cut was 200 feet from the old Pan
AGA shaft; s. Sherwood, Thomas Box, d. Sander
son, McCluskey, Hamlin, Shirts colored mar
| named Barton and myself did the work; McClus
KEY the last heard of him was in Salt Lake; ials
ton in Illinois; Hamlin is dead; Barton is a
Panaca; Shut is in Indiana; we were probabl!
till the last of July doing the work; l thei
went to New York for capital; we took out som'
galena ore; found several deposits OF 1t; took
some up to Salt Lake; used Hamlins team; hao
, onehalf of it smelted at Stockton Utah; got 5Ol
, pounds of crude bullion from it; this red mari
running east from the old shaft represents cut
; which can now be seen; it has recently beef
} cleaned out; think it is deeper now than when
| left it, these marks show different points WI
dug out in looking for the ledge; quit worl
( the last Of July because our powder was used up
and we wanted to get III capital to work GU
,t,,,, NA,x Vp1rf call npr
r of my interest in the Panaca; this arrangement
tizzled; Indians between Salt Lake and Denve
i. caused the failure; when ] got to Denver
D returning, had to lay up six weeks, because tn
Indians had run off all the stage stock; Their
were soldiers also, stationed on the road to pre-
: vent emigrants going on got back here in Sep
} TENDER, 49, did little work in old Panaca shaft
r found it as left it, only it had caved IN iittle
c thought Eastern parties would come; got lette
. stating they wouldn come on account OF the Ii
dians; went back to New York again and stage
from sc to 10 trying to organize q company
3 left in the fall of IS second time consolidauo
contract was made July I'd, 1854; it was write
by Sherwood: it was correctly copied into IN
= record book by Shut never saw contract after
:, | was being recorded it was then in Sherwood
custody; have since tried to find the contract
,, have not been able to get it; called on kecordt
b when Ely was in office; the record
n were kept in Raymond Ely's safe; Henry Ra,
- mond was acting Recorder; he said he had nevt
u seen them; in 1864 we probably did, the way "
n counted labor, 81 900 worth of work; we est
mated think 1876 days work for one man. "
estimated labor at So and $40 day, on our
It of Indian dangers; the tools and powder use
were not worth much; used one twenty-h,
l. pound key OF powder; steel cost 81 per pound
NJ Salt Lake; got steel at Austin; don't know VIII
- powder was worth: steel was brought from Aus
% in to Salt Lake by the overland stage; Indiar
l. stole from us in July; we fed them to keep the
D. quiet they seemed to be hostilei one India
a | posted us and told us the indians were planpif
- an attack; we called this friendly Indian
3. Cross.examined-I claim many claims he
O. which were located in 1864; can't tell the nur
Der of feet in all was located in 1864 in Il
Panaci Mammoth, Creole, lone, Harris, We
rb million, Farris, Cherokee Trail, Mountain Mai
=, | Spring Mountain and o hers. (The attorn'
NJ mentioned a number Of lodges located III lSt
~ | some of which he remembered to have been
~ Gated In others he had forgotten about.) MAJ
~ locations were made for me by my friend
". never worked on any Of them but the Panac
Nv | fAttorney mentioned q number located in 1St
=. some of which he claimed in; others he did not
90 Think can't tell where all the lodges are "
have mentioned; probably not half. tAttorney
I fnd you have, according to this paper, ~
u feet of ground. Witness-Have l? Well, til
ss ia more than thought ] had) Thomas Be
Sherwood, Hamlin, Shirts and myself were
NJ the ground March II, 1864; made the laws
NC day following; was no mining district when
,Ir | made the locations to my knowledge; HAM
:, / and Sill had ground staked on wnen myse
p Sherwood. Shirts and Box arrived; the northe
M end Of the discovery claim was staked; 40,
T. know how much ground they had claimed
fore we arrived think they had l ,15O feet
ID, the line Of what we thought was the ledge; tn
| 1oc,t;ou, xyoro SQUARE like n town plAt; IN