The record-union., 1896-04-26
SACRAMENTO DAILY REcoRD-UNIoN, SUNDAY,

States patent to the lands described
An escrow deed accompanied this
agreement, so it states, and the First
National Bank Of San Francisco was
the escrow holder. This escrow deed
as far as the records disclose was never
delivered. About this time Dunn en-
gagged L. f. Coburn, local attorney,
to assist him in procuring patent not
only for the lands covered by this
agreement, but for all Of the lands COW
cred by the locations indicated by the
examiner" plat George d. Butler, q
local abstractor, furnished a $40 abb
stract of title to be filed with the local
Land Office in support of the applica-
ton. l.. T. Coburn did the usual legal
work. Butler did not wish to give up his
abstract, however, without his pay. and
Coburn no longer felt like working for
glory. Dunn thought to obviate The
abstract difficulty by having the Coun-
ty Recorder prepare another, but the
Recorder, before he had gone far with
the job learned of the experience of
Butler and refused to go further Until
paid, but there has been no pay. Coburn
and Butler growing weary of waiting
put their demands together, and Mr.
Dunn is now a defendant in a lawsuit
for $4S2 20 due
On February 49, 1895, according to
the date on the instrument, r. l.. Dunn,
as first party, and Edward n. Breitung,
as second party, and Arch. Il. Eldrich,
as third party, entered into an agree
ment whereby for the consideration of
81 Dunn sold all of the lands hereinbe-
fore mentioned to Edward n. Breitung,
and said Breitung covenanted to hold
the same in trust for a corporation to
be thereafter formed. This instrument
was sent to the County Recorder of
our county to be placed on record, but
was unaccompanied by the usual fees,
and as Mr.. Dunn's reputation for
prompt payment was not good IN that
quarter, demand for fees was made
before recording. The fees were not
paid, and this agreement is yet in the
pigeonhole kept for papers refused rec
ord for non-payment of record fees in
the Recorders office. On December IL,
1895, however, Dunn conveyed by an
other deed eight-ninths interest in and
to all of the lands involved to the afore-
said Breitung, who halls from Mar
quette, Michigan, the consideration be-
ing ST. AS the fees accompanied this
instrument when presented the same
was duly recorded.
Doubtless Dunn's scheme was to
effect locations of a large tract of land
by means of his dummy absentee
friends, who would convey to him gra-
tuitously what he created for himself,
and to tack the whole on to a claim
upon which the statutory amount of
work necessary to entitle to patent had
been done, and then to represent the
whole as a system, and procure min
eral patent for the entire tract, and
then back up its presumptive mineral
character because of mineral patent,
with a glowing account of its great
richness and foist it off on gullible cap
italists. Dunn's fertility as a schemer
shows up most wonderfully. If you will
refer to page 459 of the twelfth report of
the State Mineralogist, issued in 1894
you will find an article by r. L. Dunn,
accompanied by a map, which fully ex-
plains the theory of Mr.. Dunn relative
to the mineral deposits in these lands.
In 1893 r. L. Dunn, as representative
of the Mining Department Of the State,
according to the article, made de-
tailed examination and typographical
survey Of the deposit. 1t shows up quite
glowingly. An official recognition of
the mineral bearing of the qualities of
these lands would of course, not be
deterrent in effecting a sale, so, when
Mr.. Dunn officially declared them to
be mineral, he personally, by use Of
his absentee friends who had never
seen the lands and had no interest in
- 49,
page 463 Of the report Dunn states that
the location of this conglomerate de-
post is uncertain in location. This
uncertain location of this uncertain de-
posit, which where worked did not pay
for the working, is what constitutes
the mineral character Of the lands
herein considered. 1t is a character
which is purely theoretical. In this
connection I would state that about
four years ago the blue-gravel craze
struck this part of the country and
this conglomerate Or channel was
thought to extend through the country
north and south, and in many places
it was supposed to run beneath the
earth under some very fine grain fields,
and the result was several hundred To-
cations were made, but, like Dunn's,
their mineral qualities did not develop,
and nothing was ever done with them.
In conclusion, I will say that any in
vestigation of these lands or any in
terview with the men who have known
them for forty years and upward, will
disclose the fact that there is not
single mining claim upon the lands
mentioned in the receipt to A. H. Rick
etts, and that there never has been.