Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-20
CHANCES FOR ALAW SUIT.

G1ANLhS FUK A Law SUlT.
se-Aoeatben Of the Bedrock Flune
Cswpasy's 6resnA.
The people Of this place have A
number of times located the placer
ground of More and Elk creeks and
decided to different companies that
promised to put in bedrock flume.
This fiums question began to be agi-
tated in 1859, when q company Of
miners Of this place organized and
endeavored to get grant from Con-
gress. That was when Samuel A..
Merritt, then of this place, was Dele
gate in Congress. Since that time
the people here have had an abiding
faith in something being done, but
thus far the beds of these creeks have
remained undisturbed. The ground
has been located and relocated. The
citizens of this place have never con-
sidered that any company had right
to hold this property for speculation
and to keep out others who might
take hold and put in money. This
ground was relocated the last time
from the present company that now
claims it against the Boise re-locators.
1t was not done to swindle them out
OF any of their rights, but for the
reason that the people lost all faith
in any possibility of anything being
done by them. The idea of every
body here is simply this: That this
ground is as much the property of one
citizen of Idaho City as of another.
1t is big enterprise that will require
a large amount of capital. All the
benefits the people here can expect is
in an indirect way. Whenever the
ground has been vacant and some
new outfit promised to accomplish
big results there has been a willing
ness to relocate and deed to them.
There are millions upon millions of
dollars in these creeks, and they offer
fine field for the investment of cap
ital. Whether or not these re-locators
really have capital back of them is a
matter of which the people here
know nothing. After the creeks
were ,re-located from the Bedrock
Flume company that now claims the
ground nothing was done and the
claims were decided back to that COM
pany. The question now is, can the
parties who have recently relocated
hold this ground? This question
will undoubtedly be decided by the
courts, and it is very probable that
for a number of years nothing but
representation work will be done.
The Boise County Mining company,
organized for the purpose of sinking
through the false bedrock for pay
gravel, secured six claims from the
Bedrock Flume company. The con-
sideration was that for these six
claims they were to represent the
Bedrock Flume company's ground.
The Boise County Mining company
has done sufficient representation to
hold all the claims above Warm
Springs-the claims that are con-
nected. At the Springs Turner owns
ground in the creek, so the claims
below do not join with those above,
and for this reason the representa-
ton would not hold the claims below
Turner's. But representation done
on one claim will hold all others,
provided there is no gap between any
of the claims, if for every claim one
hundred dollars worth of work is
done. The Boise County Mining Co.
last year expended $500 and this
year $4,000. This is sufficient to
more than represent the number of
claims held by the Bedrock Flume
company above Turner's ground, the
number being twenty-five. If this
representation done by the Boise
County Mining company will hold
good this ground was not subject to
relocation. 1t was agreed that the
Boise County Mining company should
own all the ground below the false
bedrock, but the Bedrock Flume
company holds the surface ground
that is, down to the false bedrock,
and are not to be interfered with in
working it, by the Boise County Min
ing company. The only question to
be decided by law is, whether or not
the work done bv the Roise County