Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-11-07
TIE BIG SUIT.
4 Man Who Thinks the Ground
In Dispute Worthless.

This case has been set down 70,
trial in the U. S. Circuit Court or
the 18th inst. Yesterday Prof
Raymond, one Of the expert wit
nessss for the Holmes Company
passed through on his way to Can
del ria to examine the Northern
Belle and Holmes mines. Messrs.
Thornton and Wren. attorneys for
the Northern Bell Company, also
came up by yesterdays train on
their way to Candelaria. Specula-
ton is becoming rife as to the pro-
babe result of the trial, both COM
panys having their friends in this
. ace. Yesterday an APPEAL re-
porter had q long conversation with
| a gentleman from Candelaria in re-
| lation to the case and the ground in
dispute. who professed to knew
whereof he spoke. He said:
pretty much all of the ore in the
ground in dispute has been worked
ont some time since by the North
ern Belle Company, leaving that
portion of the mine practically
va,ueless. In fact the nat has been
cracked, the meat extracted. and
aside from the claim of the Holmes
Company for damages the contest
is over an empty shell"
Bot" said the reporter, show
about the damages?"
well, the Northern Belle Com
pany adopted the questionable
policy of excluding the owners OF
adjacent mining claims from their
mines. As you are aware, there
is always plenty of busy brains
and tongues around one Of our
little mining camps to originate and
spread stories of new and rich
strikes in the mines. The North
ern Belle Company followed a
small vein Of good ore from their
main ore bodies off to the south.
This little vein was eooD swelied
by idle rumor to grand proportions
and marvellous richness The
owners of the Holmes ground,
lying to the south of the Northern
Belle claims, became greatly
elated. They construed the policy
Of the Northern Belle Company in
excluding them from its mine as
proof that the rumors were correct,
and that the Northern Belle Com
pany lad taken out and were TAX
ing out immense quantities Of rich
ore from the Holmes ground.
Hence this suit"
but what amount of ore did the
Northern Belle Company take ont
of the disputed ground?"
Hardly enough to pay for taking
it out"
''But as q stock proposition, will
not the Holmes people make money
out of the suit?"
''No; the celebrated Raymond &
Ely -Hermes suit was carried on by
the Hermes Company as stock
g .mble. Tens of thousands of
shares of the stock was sold just
before and during the trial at hand
some figures. Hermes won aad |
the stock Immediately commenced
to decline, and eventually bee ,me
and none of the buyers
ever realized dollar; and later the
Albion Richmond case Was man
aged as stock speculation by the
Albion, and the stock sold as high
- So share. The Albion won the
case, the stock ut once declined. two
Or three fifty-cent assessments have
,incs been levied, and the stock is
low quoted at 40 cents . share with
10 buyers. The Holmes Co. will
,ot be able to sell their stock. The
public have had enough of that sort
If thing for the present. 1t may
% worked four or five years hence.
,ut not nov; the recollection Of
dermes and Albion is too fresh"
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