Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-16
ISSUES In THE BIG SUIT.
The Opinion OF n Richmond Ad-

vOcate.
In the last London Mining Journo,
at hand, we find a letter written from
San Francisco under the nom de plume
OF Engineer" which presents some
OF the issues involved in our great min.
ing suit. The letter is as follows:
Now that the Richmond and Eureka
suits are before the Court at San Fran
cisco, a lew words on the subject may
not be untimely. In the first place |
must protest against the frequently ex-
pressed opinion that the suit of the Eu-
reka Company Is a Matchmaking suit;
those Interested are too apt to assume
That their opponents must be actuated
oy improper motives. The suit is one
That might arise between any two RES
pectable companies either in England
or elsewhere, and will no doubt be de-
cided by the Court without fear, favor,
or prejudice towards either party. /
find, and / am sorry, that the current
OF public feeling among mining men
AND experts in San Francisco is almost
entirely with the Eureka Company.
There has been such a general accept.
ance among them of the M ledge the
Org that 1t will be difficult I overcome
1t. Mining men claim that the ore body
OF the Richmond Is a chimney of ore
In the vein. and that it having passed
beyond their end line, the company
cannot claim IL, the same as at the Eu-
reka Gold mine, Grass Valley, Califor-
MIA, where the ore chimney passed to
It's neighbor the Idaho, and was lost to
the Eureka Company.
Personally, / am opposed to this one
ledge theory; and i do not think it
should follow in Nevada, where the
deposits differ in character so widely
from the California and Comstock
quartz veins, that are clearly locatable,
and should be followed by tho owners
wherever they go until they connect
with another "shoot" in adjoining
mines, which they seldom do; and no
such connection has been, or is likely
to be, made i'm the Eureka Consolidated
ground. / think it is absurd to call
the matter between the two formations
a lode, simply because ore is 4 found in
such matter. If ali this matter" was
"orey," then / would admit the con-
tention of the Eureka Company; but
it is barren limestone, except when
strata of ore are found, and these have
been located both by the Eureka and
Richmond Companies, each of these
companies having from three to half a
dozen of such locations. But / find
that l am in a small minority on the
subject; and i am inclined to think
that the opinion Of the majority of the
mining experts will prevail with the
Court. To my mind. it all hangs on
the point whether the Court will hold
that the intervening matter between
the two formations is a vein? All the
Comstockers insist that it is, for they
have been educated i'm that faith. On
the result of the suit depends the future
of the Richmond Company, for the
reserves are not large, and it is gener-
ally understood here hat the chamber
OF ore has been worked out up to the
line claimed by the Eureka Company;
and the new discoveries on the Zip
Top" ground, though they may prove
important when more fully developed,
are yet too undecided in character and
quantity to warrant much reliance be-
ing placed upon them for large sup
plies.