Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-07
LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
The Great LAW Suit-SOsDethfng
About n Exp and Their
observation-disclosures Kings Frank
Admission That he was Wrong
Four Years ago-Amother Great
battle Predicted.

~ "0S
Four Years axo-Amother Great
Hattie Predicted.
SAN Francisco, August 3.
EDITORS SENTINEL: To give such
PARTIES as may consult the SENTINEL
files a thousand years hence an oppor
tunity Of knowing something of the
various theories held in our day by
mining experts as to the character OF
the ore bodies in the Ruby Hill mines,
l send you a short outline Of the case
as presented on behalf of the Rich
mond Company. The experts on that
side, in addition TO Professor Whitney.
were Messrs. Clarence King, j. ID.
Hague, William Ashburner and some
lesser lights. Mr.. King very candidly
admitted that the theory he had in the
shell. four years ago, which promised
to yield one miners chicken, had actu
ally, under the influence of time and
tappings, produced two good strong
birds. The Eureka chicken had left
\ RtODCt CtdlCulIk kIOunuf anu
having wandered away in the direction
Of the X X mine, was lost tn ere. The
Richmond chicken took its own lonely
way under the Ruby Hill tunnel, and
thereby tie action of the Potts mAde
a very nice dish 10 be fought over. But
| drop the metaphor, which is my
own, to state the plain facts as they APP
pear to Mr.. King. He affirins that
there are two pipe veins or lodes of
ore bearing rock OF Ruby Hill. The
Eureka Company's pipe crops out at
the Champion and its stem lies along
the line of the Buckeye and Sentinel
claims, while its lower end, the root or
mineral producing source, is in the
works of the X X Company. OF course
when the stem Is gone the Eureka
Company will have nothing, and
the X X on the other hand
will be in u~ndisputed possession OF
the lode in its deeper parts. 1t is
pretty hard that Peter should become
fat just as Paul gets lean; but then
this is one of the exigencies of applied
science in this aye of infallible truth.
The Richmond pipe, according
to Mr.. King and his supporting staff
of experts, is separated from the
Champion pipe by several hundred
feet OF solid limestone, which appears
to prevent the water found in the Eu-
reka Consolidated works from drain
ing into the latter, though the latter
is opened several hundred feet deeper.
He affirms that the farther the Rich
mond lode is followed down into the
earth, the greater is the distance be
tween it and the Champion pipe, and
the surveyors plans certainly show
many hundreds Of feet Of limestone
between the X X aud the Potts cham
Der bodies of ore.
In my last letter / told you about
the grand triangular patent-diverging-
i~mpervious- walled = bread-and- milk
lode twelve hundred feet in width,
which Mr.. X. w. Raymond and his
followers had got off the stocks for the
Eureka Consolidated Company. The
only way 10 thwart the pipe-makers
was to bring against them some theory
so practical in its nature and so clearly
supported by ascertained facts that
coinmo men might see at once that it
had disabilities about it that could
not be ignored, but Raymond's
ledge, to any well informed miner.
was a thing of the Imagination, which
could only damage the professional
III WI thO hfab "hc PtOBothtCo W.
When the experts, and great rock
sharps of the day disagree so greatly.
how are plain people to decide on the
case? / pity the three Judges who
are trying the suit; it would have
turned the heads OF any common jury
except the n which sat in Eureka
in 1873, and could not be affected save
in their pockets.
l must mention how Mr.. Raymond
enjoyed himself yesterday. Having
got his opponent. Mr.. King, on the
stand, every second or two he handed
Cononel Harry Thornton a pellet of
scientific dynamite to fire at the wit
ness, and Harry fired it point-blank.
But it must be said to Mr.. Kings cred
it that he was very candid, was cool,
was learned and quite pleasant. Even
his opponents had a kindly feeling to
wards him. He had the moral cour-
age to affirm that he was wrong four
years ago., when he said that the
Champion and Richmond were one
lode; and so we may expect hat in
another four years he may have the
candor to admit that his present theory
may be required to be changed once
more. The secrets of Ruby Hill are
not all divulged yet, and new theories
will have to be given before the char
acter of its vein formation is fully un-
derstood.
If you ask me which side will win
the suit, l will answer-I don't know.
The 'line of compromise" is greatly
against the Richmond Company. Will
it be fatal? That depends on some
thing else. However the Ease may go.
the loser will be sure TO seek good
grounds on which to fight another bat
tie, and that one will end the business.
A LooKER.ON.