The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-22
Western Miners.


the requirements of law his claim (or
mine) can, on the second New Years
day following the date of location, be
relocated by himself or others, who
may be on the ground before him.
The Salt Lake Tribune notes several
incidents, more or less ludicrous, of
the kind indicated.
A person stuck up notices on claim
near a cabin in which three men were
sleeping, awaiting early morning to To-
cate it. The locator, after securing the
claim, thoughtfully woke the boys to
tell them they needn't get up SO early,
as the claim was located.
One party on :. location, who owned
it until II o'clock, stood two others off
until that hour on his rights as owner
At exactly II, he put his notice in the
split-stakes, and sang II o clock before
the others who had no watch, knew
what time it was, and then drove off
A prospector started out with his no.
tice written and in his pocket. He lost
them on the way, seven miles from
town, had no pencil or paper, and re-
turned home, while another man located
The claim.
There was little episode in Quig-
ley's Gulch, wherein three bad partners
had made it up to relocate themselves
in claim and leave out the fourth
partner. The latter had previously
been warned against coming upon the
claim that night, and was told by a
friend that his partners were going to
relocate it all to themselves; SO he Sc
cured rifle, and after the three bad
partners had gone up to the mine, he
crawled up on the shady side of the
gulch to cabin below the claim about
100 yards and there watched. At IL: 40
his partners started up to stake the
ground, whereupon, with fearful yell,
he turned loose with his gun, and could
see the crusted snow fly at every pop
just over his partners heads. They
heard the bullets humming so near
their ears that panic seized them and
they fed for town. As soon as they
were out of sight he quietly walked up
and located it all TO himself, and left
his bad partners out in the cold.
John Curtin, with his partner, went
to relocate a claim up Oh Sugar Loaf
Peak, the highest range or divide be-
tween Deer Creek and Bullion. In
trying to step too long pace to set
his end stake to the top of the peak at
some groupings, his big-soled boots
slipped upon the snow crust which, by
constant exposure to the sun in the day
time, melted and again froze in the
shade until it was sheet of ice down
the mountain side and very precipitors.
John went head first, following his hat
to the bottom, 500 feet, and lit on a big
snow-drift. His clothes were torn and
his finger nails worn off by elutching at
the crust. Getting up to see if he was
all there, he heard his partner calling,
and hallowing back. His partner shout
ed: ''What yer doing down thereP"
and John was so mad he answered:
''Was getting so cold, came down af-
ter wood In fifteen minutes he lit q
fire in the grove he arrived at so sud-
denly, and was joined by his partner
thirty minutes later, who was exhaust
ed. John concluded that the joke was
on his partner after all.
A well-known Bullion miner named
Mike Hynes had told all the town he
had several rich locations to jump be-
tween the noted mines. Before Christ
mas day he had draughtsman and ex-
pert to draw off his notices and put
each one in box on the claims he in
intended jumping. Being little be-
hind time on New Years eve, he was
coming up the gulch to tack up his box
es, and the first square view he got of
his intended claims was one calculated
to make his hair stand on end as sitting
on each end of the seven claims and up
on each of the seven boxes was a man,
and each man had Winchester re-
peating rifle pointed at Mike, who was
so amazed that he passed by each one!
merely remarking ''Good evening,
Happy New Yearr' And he didn't
feel very well until he got to saloon
at Bullion, where he braced up and re-
marked that he guessed he hadn't lost
any mines, and he wouldn't give So for all
he had come to Jump.