Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-08-17

E,e.-rhe Property worth over
siso,ooo- Discovery ANA Arrest
OF ths Pios.
Hot stoves. canal boats and saw mills
have been stolen heretofore: but It re-
mains for the Comstock. always big and
pre-eminsnt in everything. to record
an attempt to get away with q quartz
mill. shaft $50 feet deep. and hosting
works covering an acre Of ground and
worth over $50, 900. As near as 1t can
ct present bs a~scertainsd. the location
Of the Monte Cristo No. 8 claim was
9 bold attempt to steal the shalt.
buildings. machinery. quartz mill. etc..
OF the Lady Bryan mine. The former
location Was made about the 18th OF
January. A. D. 1880. The notice was
posted in q ravins east OF the Lady
Bryan hosting works and not in q con.
s~picuous place. a. required BY law.
The stakes stuck were unpainted and by
NO means conspicuous. The location
wal made to run so as to include the
hosting works. quartz mill. surface
buildings aud chattsls real Of the Lady
Bryan. From the absence OF mineral
indications in the location 1t would
seem that the object in locating Monte
Cristo No. 8 was rather to secure the
quartz mill. hosting and pumping ma
ehinsry OF the Lady Bryan than for any
legitimate mining purposes.
The figurshead used in making the
location was one William Brady. q man
who has never been prominent in the
mining industries Of the Comstock, and
one who has hitherto occupied the use
full and scientific occupation OF janitor
for j. H. Graham. Esq, attorney at
law, and bootblsek for the public. This
man Brady has since made an affidavit
that he was nawars OF the great enter
prise he was heading and had never
been on the ground to make the losa-
ton which was credited to him.
The location having been made and
recorded without the knowledge Of Mr..
Brady. q survey aud an application for
a patent was made. In order to show
that the necessary work had been done
on the claim. surveyors were taken to
the ground by one Il. E. Beggs and
shown work that had been done by the
Lady Bryan Company to the amount Of
several thousand dollars. These sur
vsyors. innocent Of the plot which they
were being used to further. certified that
sufficient work had been done to entitle
Messrs. Brady i Co. to Q United States
patent for the ground.
A notice was also published. but in
that notice no mention was made OF the
Lady Bryan mine. the Oldest and best
known location in that district, and the
language and whole description In the
said notice was OF such q nature as to
mislead rather than inform the public OF
what was going on. Not only was the
name OF the Lady Bryan omitted. but
the name of Monte Cristo, which is an
equally well known mine With the Lady
Bryan, but situated two miles away.
was used as q blind.
OF course the notice passed without
any particular attention being paid to 1t
or any one discovering the plot which 1t
was to further. The papers were hur-
ried through the Land Office at Carson
on the expiration Of the publication and
were forwarded at ono TO Washington
to get o patent which should wipe ont
forever ell the claim Of the Lady Bryan
to property on which that mine had e1-
pended six or seven hundred thousand
dollars.
1t is q we'll Unknown fact that the Lady
Bryan has applied for a patent for its
mine; also that its hosting works, mill.
etc., are located like many OF the other
| hosting works OF mining companies of
the Comstock outside the original loca-
ton OF the mine. the better to serve the
purpose OF explorations into the ledge
below. The ground on which these
works and this property is located is not
supposed to DO mineral ground aud has
been in tho undisputed possession OF
the Lady Bryan Company for fifteen or
sixteen years.
After the papers had been forwarded
to Washington. the schsmers thought 1t
was too late for any mi interested In the
| property TO protect his rights thereto.
and that the steal was virtually accom-
plished. The plotters therefore consid-
cred themselves owners OF the whole
property and even went about Boosting
| Of il and endeavoring to realize q fortune
out OF their plot by selling the property
which they supposed they had secured
by their trickory.
Through this early Boosting the Lady
Bryan Company became cognizant Of
what was going on, tslegraphed to
| Washington, engaged attorneys and OBJ
tanned q postponement OF the hearing OF
the application for the patent until such
time as the fraud could be shown up.
| This would have been O slow and eI-
pensiye. although successful. way OF
protecting their property from these ad-
v~enturers ; but an examination o! the
records OF Storey county showed that
the applicant, William Brady. for.
| tunately had not then conveyed to these
parties his title TO the claim made in his
name. On interviewing him 1t was as
| certained that be knew absolutely moth
ing Of the property. and. although
q boo,black and an ignorant colored
boy who could neither read nor write,
when the matter was explained to him.
he Immediately said he did not wish to
to be q party to any such thieving trans.
action, and executed a deed to the Lady
Bryan Silver Mining Company OF any
and all interests which might vest in
him under and by virtue Of said location
and application for q patent. When
this deed was recorded the records
showed no transfer OF the property by
said Brady to any other party or parties.
Later. another deed for the same
property. purporting to DO executed by
said Brady to ]. II. Graham. and to
which the signature is in q good business
hand, although said Brady can neither
read nor write, was filed for record.
This, however. was too late, as the title
had already been passed to the Lady
Rowan Company by the previous deed.