Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-05
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EDITOR SENTINEL: My ''Statement
for the Public" W hich appeared i'm
your pages on the 18th ultimo, has
changed the tactics of the Richmond
Company. / learn that Edward Pro-
bert, the Managing Director, now
claims the Selkirk lode, in virtue of
Its being within the lines of the Col
orado location. AS stated in my pre-.
vious letter, the Colorado was an en-
tension of the Nugget, which itself,
was onlya bunch of ore, and therefore
extended nowhere lengthwise. No
lode, no precious metals, nothing that
a mining man in his senses, would
consider worth five cents, was ever
found by the locators of the Colorado.
Both Tom Short and Tim. Haylev,
who were original owners in the
Richmond. acknowledged to me in
ISL, that though they had sunk an in
cline a hundred fee: deep, they had not
discovered a ledge, but they said tie
Cyrus lode had just then found, 700
iect distant, with an unbrokcn stretch
OF country rock between, was the one
"they intended to find" They then
proposed TO come and open Il shaft
near my discovery, to see, as they eX-
pressed it. elf it was the Colorado,n but
as | gave them to understand | should
make things hot for them if they did,
they discreetly kept away. The same
silly drivel about the intention to dis
cover Il mine at some future date, was
uttered to me by Pat. Rossiter, the
Richmond foreman, and in his pi;iable
ignorance he ~ announced that
there was an Old State mining law that
gave all lodes within surface lines to
the locators, whether they had made
discoveries or not. The Colorado be-
ing Il lode ard not a square location.
the fact of no ~pretension, even, having
been set up to II special vein or de-
posts within its limits, e~tlcctuaIly dis
poses of it AZ Il worthless location.
Until | found the Cyrus and Selkirk
lode, and stripped Off the surface COW
ering, the Richmond locators knew
nothing whatever OF its existence, en-
cept as a disability.
nave in my possession a letterfrom
Mr.. Probert dated August I'D, 1873, in
which, on behalf OF the Richmond
Company, he uses the following
words:
"It / understand YOUR position at
all, it is this: You claim to have in the
'Selkirk' Il lode instinct from the Rich
mond lode; ii thai be so, the Tar gives
you the right to foitow it under the
Richmond ground, patented or Hnpat-
cnted. What more do YOU require?
= q e 70 = As to o,her PROPOSE
ton, Tc have never, so far as | know,
| f1IiIl.,l x-,trr { t-.ii T. :rl-' 1nJ, a,, Ia..
fore there can be 10 need for repudiat-
Ing such claim
The words in italics were UNDERSIGNED
by Mr.. Prober,. Is he now prepared
to deny his W handwriting? His
object in so writing me WAS to prevent
Il protest being lodged against tie
Richmond application for patent. Be-
iieving h. was al honorable man, and
tina he meant honestly TO cOnvcv the
impression to nc that the company he
represented, as II OF its heaviest
shareholders, had given up all slain
To the Scikirk lode, | wrote him Il day
or W after, saving that as he seemed
to be inclined, contrary to my cXrecta-
tons. To do me Justice | should hot
lodge a lro.est, and did not.
4 slilewu business man in Eureka
% whom | showed Probcrl's letter
laughed at me, and said: "Iou don't
| know that old fellow vet: he will back
so,;arc out of his own words one of
these dars, if Won once let him GET a
paten; to- the Ricilnlnud." Unanswered
That if he did 50 | Should make him
Very SEX of his double game before |
wa, done with him.
In my ..Stat.nlent' accused the
kichnlnnl Company Of eNtrac ING q
lar.e amount of rich ore from me Sci
Kirk lode. Tha. | was justified in max
ing this charge a be easily proven:
The Richmond lode was cut in the
Mct;ce shaft, at about .iO fee. from the
surface, hut was found worthless at
that depth. The manager, however.
thought il necessary TO identity it I'M
der its proper name, and did this by
making three new surface locations, in
which he Was good enough to ..junp''
Il valid claim, near by, i had put on
record two months PREVIOUSLY. The
mining records of those three claims
show when the Richmond was
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