Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-04-24

Valley, Shirts is left to guard the ami
mails, while the main party start out for
the mine. The animals stray, and Shirts
goes after them; he returns and finds the
camp vacant. Then Sherwood. Box and
Vandemark return, and report that they
had got lost. In the meantime Hamlin
gets to the mine first; when asked why
lie did not wait, SO they could all go in
together, be tells Sherwood and Vande-
mark he was afraid of them. There
were two enemies in that camp. Old
man Shirts is cut out of his interest in
the Panaca entirely. He located, as he
supposed, a ledge of his own, and
called it the Shirts lode. Has any one
ever heard of that location since? Can
it be found in the Meadow Valley
records? And in locating the ledge
Hamlin gets 800 feet, while poor Bill
Pulsifer, who had long before been on
the ground, was left out in the cold
he was put off with $50 feet. He refers
to the enlarged map of the diagram OF
location.
Now, in 1864, we find Stephen Sher-
wood in Salt Lake writing the record OF
the Panaca ledge, which he first located
by the eye in 1919. According
to this book, then, [copy of records ],
VIM Hamlin's stake was 500 feet north
of discovery stake. 500 feet wastne extent
of his claim, and, though the opposite
counsel can ''get away with almost any
thing" they can't disprove that fact /;
and south from discovery $50 feet We
cross the ground Of VIM. Pulsifer, and
| then we come to the Box stake. Now,
we have had before us all these locators
except Hamlin, and he is dead. The
claims pass into the hands of John Ely;
from him colonel Raymonds gets con-
troll. The Raymond a. Ely Company
get control Of the records of the district
they go into the hands of Joseph Pat
ten, their own most trusted agent. In
Patterns hands these records mysterious
ly disappear. Who is responsible for then
loss? When last seen they Were in the
hands of the Raymond a. Ely Company.
Had they disappeared while in the
hands of Perley and Lightner we never
would have heard the last of their vii
lainy in the matter.
Gentlemen of the jury, you are the
sole judges of the evidence; you will re.
ceive what, in your consciences, you can
credit, and you will reject that you dis.
credit. Mr.. Wren admits, in severely
criticizing Mr.. Reyes evidence, that he
don't like him personally; well, gentle
men, l never drag my private business
matters into Court-my personal preju
dices; evidence must stand or fall ON its
own merits. Did not Mr.. Shirts tell {
straightforward story? Did they not a
first tell him, after he had been guard
ing their stock and the little bite they
had left to eat, that his location was No.
south? And then, afterwards, when thu
interests were consolidated, did they no
tell him that they had made mis-
take-that his claim was No. 7 in
stead of No. 4? And when they returned
to Salt Lake all interests in the Panaci
location centersd in the Box family
They couldn't get a record book of any
one else but Box, and they couldn'
make their records anywhere else but il
Box's house. They swindled old mai
Shirts out of his claim, and they know
, it. Shut, who had never stuck pick h
,, the ground for the purpose of mining
, and who was under the control of Box
: was made the Deputy Recorder. II
, was brother Mormon. Here Judg
, Pitzer was informed that Shut was not
Mormon; he replied that whether he wa
or not, he was controlled by Box. Tn
{ testimony shows that in 1864 there wer
but three stakes stuck-one near wha
a they call discovery shaft; one 15C fee
| bounds of Hamlin's ground. The 80
I feet were stepped off to the north TO
!. Hamlin by Sherwood, and then Sher
a wood measured off his own ground
n Now, was there ever "a pick stuck int
! the claim that is marked in their record
: as discovery claim? Their shaft thG
they worked in was south of the disco,
!. cry claim. The Mormon policy, throug
a Box, controlled after they returned I
/. Salt Lake. They have got Gentiles wit
r them, and they must take back enoug
e Mormons on their return to locate tn
g whole country, to override Gentle infr
ence, and to secure to themselves tn
. bulk of the silver. They had thrown oil
A man Shirts overheard, and now they AZ
8 ready to consolidate. But VIM. Pulsife
:. would not sign the consolidation COZ
v tract, when solicited to do so. Why
q because" he says to Hamlin, Il owne
n as much Of that ground a year ago as 20
s did, but now, and without your buyin!
, or my selling, you own 800 feet to m
q l50." And finally rather than be ass,
"a ciated with such men-rather than plat
,e himself in their power-he gives Hamli
!, deed for his interest. But Pulsf,
= never did sign the consolidation agree
N ment, and his $50 feet, on which tt
n work was all done, never was in the col
r solidation. Every lick they struck WI
n on the Pulsiier ground, and not II liz
r was struck elsewhere until 1870. BishC
4 was wrong in calling the Psnaca locatic
We ga galvanized corpse" 1t never HI
We enough vitality to become a corpse.
nj discovery, notices of location, and It cord
es are three things absolutely necessary
To establishing mining claim. What CT
al YOU make out of the notices of the
naca location? Their diagram and t,
ty reading Of their notices agree that tn
. thought the stakes were set in the dire
e. ton Of the ledge. They made east al
ly west cross-cuts to strike the lede
= Would they have done that
they did not think the ledge II
north and south? And for several lo
be years all they did was making tho
tn cuts. In June, 1864, a terrible outbre
r. of one hostile Indian occurred, and the
he old mountaineer miners were driven G
i'll of the country A bloody campaign G
ST. sued, and one white man, named Roge
Sc was killed forty or fifty miles away. III
ne was the extent of the mortality, with
h. exception that five Indians, while in tn
of hands as captives, and under their co
he pete control, were slaughtered. Fina
,or mother Lee, with billet of wood, 81