Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-04

nemucca the o coming to me,
as allowed by the company after they
had got away with their fraud. | have
by me the return of the company and
the assays mentioned by Mr.. Lock-
wood in his affidavit.
j. B. AYREs.
STATE OF NEVADA, g
COUNTY OF EUREKA.
NJ. Lock wood, being duly sworn,
saws:
That he is a resident of the town of
Mineral Hill, in Elko county, Nevada;
that he is BY occupation "A miner; that
on the 18th day Of November, 1876. he
arrived in Winnrnucca, Humholdt
county, with a lot OF ore from the
bonanza" and other mines at Min
eral Hill; the lot weighing, according
10 receipt, 1888 pounds; that he COM
tracted with the "Humboldt Reduc
ton Works" to reduce said lot of ore;
that the circumstances attending such
contract, and the terms of the contract,
we re- as follows: On arrival at Winnie
mucca the comp ny's mill was not
running, and the company refused at
first to start up. Within a day or two
the assayer of the company made an
assay of the ore and told atfiant that 1t
assayed in the neighborhood of $500
per ION. The day of, or the day fol-
lowing the assay. the company,
through its Presidei t, agreed with al
tiant to reduce said ore upon he tot
lowing terms, as TO sampling: OF each
character Of ore Qhere being five dlf-
ferent lots a floor sample and a battery
49, - lka tnIyav, INxy tta fA,n-
man of the company and asiant coi =
jointly, the average OF those sample.
to tie the measure OF value OF the ore
That in compliance with said a1ree-
ment the ore was delivered to tho cOm-
PAW. and the company proceeded TO
crush it. That ailer nighiall The rich
est lot of ore. o aiming according to
the eompany's receipts 23G2 pounds
net, was brought upon the Hoor. Ina
the foreman of ths company, again>t
the protest Of ~affiant, refused to take a
floor sample of said rich lot and re-
fused TO permit atliant to take such
floor sample: the foreman saying that
if affiant was not satisfied with the bat
terry sample alon., he could take the
ore from khe mill. That shortly after
such refusal the foreman went off shit,
leaving the other employees in charge.
That with the consent of n of these
employees atfiant took at random a few
handsiul of the rich lot of ore. boxed
it up, and through K. &. Adler, o.
Winnemncca. and without charge,
shipped it for assay TO Conrad VIE
gand, of Virginia City. That VIE
gand returned an assay thereof, valu-
ing it at Sl,2l3 so per ION. That pre-
vious to Shipment attiant had taken a
fair sample of said ore and submitted
it to Max Muller, OF Eureka, who re-
turned an assay value OF $l,SS7 y per
ton.
That while affiant and an employe OF
the company, named Cook, were tax
ing battery samples of the said re !
lot of ore, affiant discovered a China
ma in the employ of the company
%shoveling waste rock into the hopper
with said rich ore; that in re pon>e 10
a question from Cook, said Chinaman
told Cook that he was ordered by the
foreman to shovel in the waste rock
that the battery samples OF this rich
ore only assayed $3.50 20 per ton; thai
af1iant does not know of his own
knowledge that waste rock vas mixed
with the other four lots OF ore; that
the difference bet ween The return made
by the company to atliant Of this lot
of 2,302 pounds of rich ore and the re
turn tnat should have been made upon
a floor sample, was over $500.
That af1iant was paid by the compa
ny in san Francisco exchange, az
cordjng to the false return based upon
the fraudulent action of the company
above rerited. That he cashed the
company's paper at Winnemucra TO
silver, receiving the last installment
of 5000 few minutes before the mex
eastern-bound tram left the town, and
that he lett by that train for Mineral
Hill, taking with him the entire
amount received.
That afiAnt has read the article in
the SitueT State of date OF January
30th, rehectin saipon him, and that the
same is false in every particular and
is a libel on affiant, and that the only
Cinnamon at1iant knows of in connec
ton with the transaction was the one
heretofore mentioned, who was EN-
ployed by the Humooldt Reduction
Works to defrsud-not a Bill Nye-but
"A hard-working miner.
Milo LOCKWOOD.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this Sd day of February, 1877.
l.. w. CRoMER,
Justice of the Peace.