Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-25
MINING MATTERS AT TINTIC.
The Scientific Point i'm the Great
Suit-Activity i'm the Mines,
and Other Matters.

EUREKA, September 24.-At this writ
ing all but few of the experts have left
for Provo Your readers are aware of
the Eureka Hill and Beck lawsuit now in
progress before Judge Powers of the
/! First District Court Captain Day re-
mains here a few days to refresh his
memory, when he returns to Provo to
join his colleagues in one of the most
interesting problems ever undertaken by
a court in this Territory.
CAN THE COURT SOLVE IT?
That the compass is true to the pole, is
an old saying; but younger men than
Prof Clayton will tell you that there is
variation OF II degrees. Ten years ago
the variation here was Is degrees 80
minutes. Now q patent obtained ten
years ago could be conveniently disturbed
to-day ii the present standard variation is
| followed
Now, I wish to be understood. The
location of a patented claim is perman-
emily set down on the earth's surface and
on record in the General Land Office
Our records show that the variation of
the compass is easterly and science tells
us that it will vary in that direction for
two hundred and fifty years to come.
Then, science shows how it will return,
.. pass the suns magnetic equator and the
variation OF the needle is then west of
north. But to come to the point. If, as
we know, the needle varies thirty
minutes in ten years how in heavens
name are we to determine, permanently,
our accurate position on the earth's sur
face?
If our garden spot to-day is due north
and south, an accurate survey ten years
hence would
THROW OUR PEACH TREES INTO a NEIGH
BORIS LOT,
Unless he too got into litigation, when a
move of twenty minutes east would be
ordered by court, and in few years the
peaceable citizens of this portion of Juab
county would find themselves closely
hugging the Wasatch range, while if the
problem were fully followed out we would
push Massachusetts into the ocean ere
Ben Butler got to be President This
matter will not come up at Provo this
term, but it is journalistic duty to keep
ahead of the times.
THE MINES OF TINTIC
Are being worked vigorously, but the
District Court should receive some credit
for the increased activity in Eureka.
John McChrystal, assisted by Pat Shea,
has charge OF the Eureka Hill, while
Dennis Sullivan handles the Beck prop
erty. The whole side-hill is filled with
mineral, and the workings OF both com
panies are, to a stranger, more compli-
Gated than the Mormon question is to an
ordinary Senator But the question at
issue just now is not necessarily vital to
either company. A slice Of the water
melon has dropped. Who owns it? Let |
the Court decide
THE BUSINESS OF THE CAMP
Is conducted by three business firms.
McCrystal & Co. carry all that one would |
imagine he could need, while Beck SAYS |
he can make stand-off with the Big
Coop, but 'Bless you, my boy" says |
our old friend, Jim Robbins, ~ make no |
comparison. My name alone is sufficient |
for all of our Utah trade" Robbins has |
large stock OF merchandise, and it is /
we'll handled
Pat Cusick is the backbone OF the Nc
Chrystal firm (the former occupies all
his time in the Eureka mine, and that
alone would keep a Jay Gould busy, but
Cusick is a study. Go where you will
there is Cusick. Leave him in a horse
trade to buy pair of socks and, unless
you know the man, you'd be surprised 10
find him dlating on the superior quality
OF his seamless balbriggans. He is of
the camp and the camp is of him
LIKE ALL PROSPEROUS CAMPS,
Eureka has its saloons. There is smiling
NJ. c. Sullivan, Harry Tompkins, with
his Hyde; Dan Sullivan, the genial, good
looking, whole-souled. Dan McMurphv
is here, too, with his quiet smile, ever
ready to please, though the atmosphere
may not be at all times pleasant; John
son d Yates come next That man
Yates should be suppressed; the weather
SO oppressive, too, but he will. talk. He
cannot be interrupted. A cyclone is a
whisper to him; but there are angels
worse than Yates. Prosser & Conner s
don't say much, but my! it takes big
hand to make either lay down. Hatfield .
OWNS the tabernacle on the hill. He has
| lofty position, and is we'll calculated to {
loid it. But do you wish to enjoya pleas {
INT nook across the street? Then cross {
he bridge with me and see Gibln; if he
s not in Jim Macauly is, and if we can i
lot be entertained by old-time warns g
here and treated like princes, why let us
cave the camp and move to San Fran t
'lsco We could stop off long enough. to +
ell Macauly's friends at Euralyo Na,, =