The record-union., 1896-04-26
MINERAL LAND MONOPOLY.
How Mineral Lands Are Bodied Up
Through Fraudulent Transfers
by LOcatorS.
An Interesting Story From Siskiyou
County-A Michigan Mans Ten
Thousand Acres.


ally to statement that man in Mich :
igan owned 10000 acres of mineral land
III one body in Siskiyou County. The
frauds that were pract1ced in order to
produce the color of title to this large
body of land are set forth in the follow
ing very clear and concise docu-
ment, written by all expert miner in
Siskiyou County. AS disclosing the dis
honest methods by which pretense is
made that certain lands are mineral
and working them off on ignorant peo-
pie, the subjoined will be very interest
ing reading. The report is from an i'm
Partial observer, and the conclusions
presented are as follows:
YREKA (Siskiyou County,, April 20,
1S96-We find that the lands involved
have never been prospected or worked
for gold, and have never even been re-
garded by the people who are actually
familiar with them as being mineral
bearing. They lie on the side of the
Black Butte Mountain and are only val
liable for grazing purposes.
In 1893 r. L. Dunn recorded notices
Of location of all the lands which are
named on the plat as reproduced in the
Examiner" of the 18th inst, with the
exception of the Golden Eagle, or Sand
stone, which was located in 1888 or 1889
AS the plat shows, on railroad lands
there are four locations.
The first Of these, embracing lands
in section 3, and called the Sandstone
First Extension Drift Placer Mine, has
the following names appended to it as
locators to wit: r. L. Dunn, NJ. NJ. Muir
ply. M. T. Barnett, William Houchins,
William r. Arthur Joseph Clegg, Sam
uel j. Pullen and Fred s. Stevens.
The second, section 3, called the Eu-
reka Drift Placer Mining Claim, has the
following names, to wit: Lee Wallace.
James Morgan, Walter H. Goffert, w.
w. Chaplin, E. P. Hill, John NJ. Hender-
son, H. L. House and Harry P House
man.
The third, section 3, called the Excel
sior Drift Placer Mining Claim, has the
following names, to wit: William Cru
enhagen, r. L. Dunn, Horace D. Dunn,
Edward L. Brown, Thomas NJ. Gardner.
George A. Brown, Duncan Nicol and
Frank NJ Ward.
The fourth, embracing lands in section
II, and called the Renton, has the fol-
William Houchins, James Morgan, NJ.
Barnett, Joseph Clegg, M. NJ. Murphy
and Samuel J. Pullen.
All of these notices of location bear
date October 26, 1898, and were recorded
on December 81, 1898. 1t is customary
for the local papers to publish weekly
list of the locations of mines, deeds,
ETC., and where the party recording re-
quests it the Recorder in turn requests
the papers to omit publication which is
usually effected by writing in lead pen
Gil above the document as recorded
Don't publish Don't publish" ap-
pears at the head of each of these no.
tees of location.
AS you will observe, the names under
the location of the aforementioned
claim, with the exception of r. L. Dunn
and William r. Arthur, also appear in
the fourth-mentioned location These
names mixed up with few others also
appear in the other locations indicated
on the map reproduced in the Exam
iner' of the 18th other than the ones
herein mentioned
On October =, 1894, the parties whose
names appear to the aforementioned To-
cation, to wit: M. T. Barnett, NJ NJ
Murphy, Joseph Clegg, w. r. Arthur,
William Houchins and Fred S. Stevens,
reciting therein that they were residents
o1 Auburn, Placer County, by deed pur-
ported to convey to r. L. Dunn for So
the interest they had acquired by the
locations in the Sandstone First Exten-
sion and in the Renton. This deed is
also marked Don't publish
n
names appear to the location notice of
the Eureka Mine to wit: Edward P
HILL H. L. Howse and Harry P House
man of San Francisco, John NJ. Hender-
son of Berkeley and Lee Wallace and
James Morgan of Placer County, for So
decided to r. L. Dunn their interest in the
Eureka Mine. Don't publish" also ap-
pears at the head of this instrument.
On October IL, 1894, the parties whose
names appear to the location notice of
the Excelsior Mine, to wit: Edward L.
Brown, George a. Brown and Duncan
Nicol of San Francisco, William Gruen-
hagen and Thomas NJ Gardner of Oak
land, Francis NJ Wallace of Alameda
and Horace d. Dunn of San Francisco,
for So conveyed their interest in said To-
cation to r. L. Dunn. Don't publish"
again accompanies.
In 1889 j. H. Hickox located under the
name of the Golden Eagle the piece of
land so designated on the Examiner"
plat Dunn and his absentee associates
relocated this land and christened it the
Sandstone. Prior to Dunn's advent
some little work had been done upon
this claim. After Dunn had effected his
locations he constructed a quartz mill
to crush the deposit which he found
which could not be worked otherwise,
constructed a foot-bridge across the
klamath River and made other i'm
provenents. This was in 1893 and 1894
The claim did not pay. however, and no
work was done in 1895 and 1896. This
Is the only claim which appears on the
Examiner" plat that has been worked
to any extent whatever.
AS / have heretofore stated. Hickox
and others prior to Dunn's advent had
located the Golden Eagle. They formed
a corporation on October %, 1890. call
ing themselves the Sandstone Cnnsol-
idated Gold Mining Company, and
notwithstanding Dunn had jumped
their ground, he seemed to have con-
Guided that it was best to compromise
matters, and accordingly on February
10, 1895, the said corporation, as first
party, j. II. Hickox, as second party.
and r. L. Dunn as third party. entered
into an agreement affecting the Golden
Eagle claim and the Sandstone first
extension claim and the Sandstone
claim, which agreement contains the
preliminary recital Whereas, the first
and second parties claim and assert
i,taract in tho lar hara;y, 5ee,r;l,