Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-04-17

TO get some one to help work my claim,
and Box took me to Howard Livingston;
don't think l ever furnished Sherwood
with copy Of the notice on the Shirts
lode; was put on the Panaca No. &c
South; was astonished at being struck
of at No. 26, and little angry: came
back from Salt Lake about the 10th to
10Th of June; stayed here twelve or four
teen days; l have belonged to the Nor
mon Church for forty-sne years. wit
ness then described the peculiar views Of
the Mormons relative to mining, ETC.,
which caused some considerable amuse-
ment. know Kanawa; it is 90 miles
east of this: had conversation with
Hamiin there in the summer of 1871;
could not say what month; was inter-
ested in the conversation, as / wanted to
find out if my claims were likely to be
worth anything; Hamlin told me that
they had sent on man to New York;
had man months there trying to sell
the claims, but without success, and
thought they would not be worth any
thing; lived ut that time at the iron
works; have Travelled over the country
almost as much as any white man, and
in Southern Utah in 1865, and was not
troubled by Indians; know Of no white
man killed in Southern Utah in 1S6i-5;
according to the best information | could
gather they did not intend to kill white
men until four or five Indians had been
| killed, and then there were some threats;
| l heard Pulsifer say that he worked the
| Panaca for lead; don't recollect any one
else saying so; l never saw anybody
here who professed to me to be a sur
yeyor; / followed the stakes both WAYS
up to point ON the hill; saw Shirts
point where the line crossed the noun
tain; it would be 800 or 400 feet east of
the reservoir; the north line of the Pa
naca would cross the head of Main
street directly; it was surveyed out and
measured with compass and chain; l
did not see it done; Mr.. Hampstead did
it; it took ME clear over into the fiat
mile or a mile and half; / was at the
Mammoth location imme diately it was
found, and l was TO have the fourth
claim,
Crosse xamined---Iro county is about
20 miles from here, very nearly; had a
conversation in 1867 with Hamlin; there
was no one present; in the summer,
between June and September-it ap-
pears to me it must have here in June
it took place where the settlement is now
wanted to know whether my claims
would be worth anything; they had been
working there for lead, and Hamln said
he had been trying to sell it in New
York; Vandemark had been there and
spent five or six months in that fort
Vandemark took some ore; they had
worked it some; Hamlin stayed over
night, and next morning went north; l
saw stakes on the ground in June, 1864
didn't count how many; more than a
dozen each way on the Panaca ground.
Re-direc t-I followed the stakes indi.
vidually; understood they were put by
Heamstead, and l followed them to
No. IS, which was mine; compass
used to run the line; the way it was
done, there were three holes dug
one at the Panaca shaft, which was seven
or eight feet deep; then one was dug on
the north, and found little ore, aud one
on the south; this was done in order to
get at the wall of the ledge; l don't
recollect the point of the compass; was
not here when they were run; / followed
the stakes over.
The Court then adjourned till 10
O'Clock this morning.