The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-15
QUINN OBJECTS.
A Few Words About the West Noun
tain Mining District.

| To the Editor of The Herald:
In your issue of Saturdays paper, ]
see where some gentlemen congregated
in Salt Lake city for the purpose OF
changing the bylaws of West Mountain
J Mining district, by forming a new one
| by taking Harker's and Coon's canyons
! out Of this district; and I feel it my
| duty to inform those gentlemen and the
public, so that honest prospectors and
claim holders may not be mislead OF
misinformed in the matter, that the &C
ton of those would-be miners is wholly
Illegal and void. No attention should be
paid to such proceedings as those
! adopted at the Walker house Friday
evening. They are not wholly illegal, but
cause confusion, loss and expense to the
miners who. in good faith, may have,
or intend to locate, and try their luck
IN Harkers or Coons canyons, which is
situated in West Mountain Mining dis
! trict, as will be seen by the following:
Article J. This district shall be known
and styled by its former name, the West
Mountain Mining district. and is bounded
as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the
confluence of the river Jordan with Great
salt Lake, and running thence in a
southerly direction along the east bank
of said river, to its point of exit from
Lake Utah, to the 10th degree of north
latitude; thence alongside 4Uth degree of
north latitude to the east boundary of
Iooele county; thence along said bound
airy to the Great Salt Lake, and from
thence easterly to the place of begin
ning."
And which boundaries have never been
changed or amended since their adop-
ton, September II, 1862 and where now
all the locations of mining claims in said
canyons are recorded in said West Noun
tain Mining district. up to April u 1886
and Will now insert article 10 Of West
Mountain bylaws:
Article 10. All meetings for the pur-
pose of elections CIR changing these by
laws must be called by posting written
notices in at least ten public places in the
district, or by publishing the same in
some newspaper printed in the territory
nearest this mining district, said notice
TO be given by the district recorder at
least twenty days previous to such meet
ings."
Compare the foregoing article with the
following notice, which l am informed by
the secretary of said meeting. which was
az nalo OUTSIDE OF SAID district, was posted
IN only three places:
NOTICE.
"A formal meeting of the miners inter
ssted in this district will be held on the
I'd day of April, at p. m, at Harker's
spring, in Harkers canyon. Object, the
FORMATION of a separate mining district,
ana the election of recorder
You can see the meeting is called by
no one and signed by no one, which is in
direct conflict with the established by
laws of this district. Such proceedings
can do no good, but on the contrary,
hurt the mining industry. The people
get bewildered. They do not know where
10 Ile their locations, and it only causes
CONFUSION, costs and expenses and prob
ably loss of their claims in the long run
Why not let well enough alone:
OF course, there is only one conclusion
to be derived from said meeting. Instead
those gentlemen ar
Walker House parlors, they met at the
Walker House bar. where, flushed by the
tales of rich float, they thought they
would then and there establish a
new mining district, and break up
the old one that has been in force for
over thirty-two years. Break it up in
one meeting, and establish the rev one
in day. But such was the excitement
and he wild tales that were told of the
rich nds in the canyons, that it was said
that man could ride a bicycle up Hark-
ers canyon, and pan the gold without
alighting. Well, have been over there.
l cannot say that l saw him pan the
sold. 1 saw him prospect for it on the
bicycle. and some say they saw him set
stakes on claims without alighting and
running from discovery to corner at the
rate of 2:40 until he struck a snag and
punctured his tire, when he came to a
standstill.
adjourned to meet again at, to-wit:
'Harker'S spring or we'll" [ think ii
was an insult to the miners: and al
though I am willing that Mr. w II.
Lett. or some other fine-loolzing gentle
man who was present at said meeting.
should play the part of Abraham's SER
want, and take Cass Hite's camels and
pack animals. and journey across the
mesas and low places to Coon's canyon,
and there meet Rebecca with her flock
OF sheep at ..Harker's spring or we'll"
and while she is drawing water for the
canels and pack mules, he can propose
to her for his master. Cass Hite, and If
she accepts him, 1 would like TO perform
the ceremony. But l object TO the time
and place to meet to-wit: At Harker's
spring or well, on the said I'D day of
April. I positively decline the Invitation.
because those gentlemen cannot make
this recorder take water They will have
to leave the district intact, as it stands
and file their notices of location here
3. 3. QUINN
Mining Recorder West Mountain Dis
trict.