St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-12
SAND, BUT NO GOLD
EXPERIENCE THAT CERTAIN SPEC
ULATORS HAD IN AN OREGON
ORCHARD >
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Is RECALLED BY AN ACTION
WHICH HAS BEEN ON TRIAL BE-
FORE JUDGE KERR AND A
JURY. ff93.
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Is RECALLED BY AN ACTION
PLAINTIFFS SEEK TO RECOVER
Machine-An Interesting
Case. E

A case that has been on trial be-
fore Judge Kerr and a jury the last
few days opens up an interesting his
tory that shows how thorny Ia the
path Of the man who invests his money
in boom mining enterprises. 1t is the
suit Of Herbert A. Phillips ct al. to re-
cover from John A. Bowman, w. H.
Fisher and others $500 for gold wash
ing machine purchased by the de-
PENDANTS to take gold out of an Ore
gon peach orchard, or the river ad-
joining one 1t is very similar to
suit brought by the same plaintiffs
some months ago against DR.. McGraw,
DR.. Sawyer and others, who had been
induced to put their money into an
other gold district out in the same
region.
In that action the defendants re-
fused to pay for the machine on the
ground that 1t did not take any gold
out Of the sands on their claim, and
the plaintiffs informed the court that
they had not warranted the machine
to take gold out of the Pacific ocean
or from earth in which there was no
gold, but had warranted it to save
something like 80 per cent of the yell
low metal in ordinary placer deposits.
In that case the plaintiffs secured
verdict, and the issues in the present
case are practically the same.
Some years ago the report was spread
that the sands of the Pacific ocean and
those on the beach, were full of gold
that had been washed down from the
mountains by the slow processes of
time, wind, weather and water. Here
was an colorado for the energetic
boomer, and he was not slow to take
advantage of it. All along the coast,
wherever stream entered, bearing
down it's particles of yellow treasure,
the boomer pitched his tent and staked
his claim. Peach orchards, cabbage
gardens, potato patches-everything
was full Of gold. Nothing but wealth
everywhere, and the easiest thing in
the world to get possession of it. All
that was required to be done was put
the whole volume of earth into a hop
per, turn a crank, take a sack and
shovel to the other end of the machine,
fill the sack and go home millionaire.
What boomer could afford to miss
such an opportunity? Certainly not
Col Muncy, the famous old Occur
d'Alene boomer or Amos B. Bowman.
the promoter of Midvale, that ideal
city Chat was to be) the location of
which midway between the Wood Har-
vester Works and Saltwater is still
marked by the dust of a decayed side
walk Col Muncy pitched his tent at
Huntington, Or. while Boomer Bow
man was satisfied with nothing less
than on eighty-acre peach orchard on
historic stream known as Corners
creek Muncy it was who induced the
ST. Paul doctors to throw their coin at
the Turing offer, while Bowman went
after men of large means. including
it is alleged W. H. Fisher. ex-president
Of the ST. Paul & Duluth road. and
promoter of the much talked of $20,000.
900 Venezuelan bank. to throw few
dollars into his mining scheme lust for
fun TO see what marvellous returns it
would yield.
Well. 1t has yielded marvellous re-
turns. lawsuit that Mr.. Fisher is now
called linon to defend 70 avoid being
compe11ed to face liability for the ex-
pense of carving on the experiment
Tn the trial Of the "a sessAtterney HiIar
Horton finds unlimited scnnr for graft
fying his spirit Of humdr and sarcastic
wit at the expense of Etl1a&defendants
and their attorney. Farries Richard
son. by constantly making. -iocular re-
marks about the attemnt sto extract
gold from an Oregon peach sorchard.
Mr.. Fisher says that4if the property