The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-09-01
GLASS STONES.

i"i' N'A"oo iioo JH0N N'''''N"ON
two weeks run upon HomestakC
ores, with his ten stamp quartz
mill located here. A general clean
up is now being had, and while the
tull results cannot yet be known, il
is known that the run will be sue
cessful one in respect to the opera
tions OF the mill, and the character
and quality of Baxter Mountain
ores. On completing the run the
battery was found to be well filled
with arnalgam, and the plates all
well covered, besides considerable
amalgam had been taken from the
battery plates during the run. This
would seem to call for congratula
tory feelings on the part of all who
are interested in this camp and
district. But every rose has its
thorn, and while we take pleasure
in chronicling the success of the
Glass Mil, and in congratuiating
the camp upon the free mill
ing character of its ores, we regret
10 note that a storm cloud much
lsrgcr than a mans hand, has risen
above the horizon, and which
threatens much and prolonged evil
to the camp.
Until last June the hopes Of this
camp rested upon the then known
character of the Homestake and
Little Mack leades, and the gold
round in almost all the gulches and
which latter could not be attribut-
ed to either of those leads. In the
early history of this camp the pla
GERS were extensively worked, and
upon the discovery of the Home
stake lead, Baxter mountain and
its environs were staked by pros
pectors and others most of the
claims taken being staked upon lines
as near parallel to the H0mestake
as practicable. This stalking was
done in a great hurry, the claim
ants thinking to find their leads
and mineral at their leisure, and
doubtless i'll many instances prop
erty was staked with the simple
purpose of selling, and with no in
tention of developing or In any
way proving its value. This the
camp sanctioned because, as we
suppose, of their ignorance of the
ultimate conseq fences of such
course, and because the majority
were engagedin such stalking.
The mining law of the United
States, and from which all rights
and titles must be derived, states
that, mo location of a mining
claim shall be made until the dis.
covery of the VEN or lode within
the limits Of the claim located. :"
The mining law also provides for
the creation of camp or district rules
tor the regulation of the same, but
provides that these shall not con.
tlict with the general law.
Of what value is staked claim
without minerals, to the stalker, or
to the camp! None, What right
title or interest does the eparty stak
ing ground without the discovery
of the vein or lode within the lin
it's of the claim" acquire under the
general law! None What hope
Is there Of = camp when no titles
can he acquired without endless
contention aud litigation None.
What immediate hope is there for
a camp in which camp rules and
camp opinion sanction the stalking
OF ground without discovery, if,
stakers of ground and their gran
tees, come in conflict with the dis
ofmineral in place 2 None. !
And whyi Because capital is timid
and will not seek litigation even |
though the law and the facts are
known to favor its investment in
questions and matters likely to be
litigated.
1t now appears that through the
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