Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-11-08
American Mines, English Owners
and Important Litigation
No. 9.

ISdOtiS iti W pay ttttllllOIl 10 lnolr
understandings when they stood in
opposition to any other faculty of
their minds. he was well aware of how
easily a person might be led astrav
by trusting too readily to its decision
in matters better understood and felt
by other faculties of the mind; for he
says: 1.-The mere understanding,
however useful and Indispensable. is
the meanest faculty in the human
mind, and the most To be distrusted."
Yet, how few there are that do not
rather trust to their understanding
than to their senses or feelings in mat
terS that appear to he better under
stood by the latter faculties. The
Judgment, too, which appears to be
the creature of the understanding
must, i'll consequence, be often at
fault, and especially so i'll deciding
between Hteait It tauH1, or in pro-
nounCing upon q priofi reasoning.
| have been led To these remarks by
your structures upon the preceding
communication, the spirit aud intent
of which you have evidently nlISun-
derstood. The object OF these letters
is not SO much to direct public attcn-
ton to ttrO, at least, of the suits re-
ferred To before, as it is to point out
the evils that attend such matters, and
h Dad impression created III the
minds of capitalists and others whose
attentions may be directed to our dis
trict, when they had learned the case
with watch matchmaking operations
were inaugurated in our midst. | will
not say, however. that the above two
suits were commenced with any such
specific purpose. This would be an
actiOnahle charge, from which the
SENTINEL, II not the writer OF II, might
have to defend himself. BeSlueS,
the plaintiffs might prove titles after
all. Their claim may be entitled to
more credit than we are willing to
concede t. it from what we obtain
from prilHd .tdcte facts. Let's exam
inc how far this view Will bear us out,
and il we discover that III under
standing of their case Is at fault, 1t Will
be an additional testimony III favor of
De Quincev's philosophy.
The Tanuahill :. NJ. Company,
which, il we are to give credence TO
what interested parties say, possesses
a corporate character and indlvlduall-
tv which entities il to some respect,
has seen tit 10 institute a suit in eject
ment against the Dunderbprg mine.
Why the company owning this mine
should he singled out, as 1t appears to
be, for the fierce. lndlScrlmlnate on
Slaught hat has been made upon il, Is
Il matter that needs no deep study TO
discover. Was its ~sulVenCy less as
sured than 1t Is. the case would be
different. An empty ~eXchequer at
tracts neither the attention OF friends
nor the schening of enemies, how
ever impecunious their condition. In
looking from a disI%nterested stand
point at the pecullaritieS that sur
round the aforesaid suit, one Is tempt
ed to ask Immediately why wait sc
long? Why not have brought 1t two
or more Il ago against those who
sold 1t to the latter company, when
the case was entirely free from ONE
OF the difficulties that beset it now?
The former company would then, too,
he much better able to show title than
at present, though if it even had one
to show il can Doubtless demonstrate
the possibility of being able To show
1t. vet, ere the present contest is ter
minated, should itself or its agents ~
eve allow II To see the inside OF a
legal tribunal, which | much doubt.
1t would be 4 dangerous precedent t"
establish in any mining camp, that
the mere fact OF Il company or its
agentS-making Il location upon a
ledge, lead or lode of mineral
bearing matter digging a hole,
erecting a monument, II plaC-
ing a notice under some of the
stones that usually compose it, would
be all that would tie required OF them
to do toward holding il, in that state,
tAr an lnIatnIfh IarlHI rms Nnnli
be a nice Arrangement for the ownerS
or lOcatorS, who could 20 WhereS0ever
they listed, visit the Fiji islands as
missionaries TO the ~iutractabl" canni-
balls who lnhablt them, or turn en-
plorers and make IA trip III the inter
est of hunlau science to the north
pole. All of these they could do;
and when they returned, and found
their original location developed
without expense or trouble to them
s5lNeS-iuto a tir>t-ratc mine, they
could straightWav put in their notl"e
to prove location, and possess them
selves OF il. Is there not some analo-
" between this View and the course
pursued by the TaHnahill Company:
Is there such Il concern. however, i'll
existence, as the Tannahill incorpora-
ton? Or does all the noise that Is
AAN - ~ - - 49, N's
fossil elements, er>tWhlle III a QuleS-
cent state, but now reused into sud-
den action by the bright prospects
ahead, for which they nave, Mlcawbet-
like, waited and hoped for for so long
IA time? The latter Is. or appears to
be, the likelieSt case; tor | DO not
think it possible for any SAINT COM
panV to base a claim upon such pre-
pOSterouS grounds as those l have
here but partially glanced at. Its
birth and baptism tppeartO be ShrOud-
ed in some mystery too. 1t would,
however, | think, be difficult To assign
To either the II or the other event
a proper chronological character,
thought ii might not be entirely i'm
possible To fix the time when it be-
took itself TO the quiet Rip Van Win
kle-llke SnOoZ from which it appears
To have but Just emerged, with
derfullv quickened faculties of OBJ
Servation and acquisition. The Dun
derberg is now valuable, and its OWN
ers would much rather submit 10 be
blackmalled i'll a quiet, gcntlemanly
way, than 10 submit to "A slow and
expensive litigation. Have | unwit-
tingly struck the keynote, and solved
the enigma at last? | have.
DE PoER.
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