The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-15
GOLD NINE IN TOWN.
LOCATION NOTICE Tackled UP.
What Use I'm Going 20 Trail Creek or
Alaska When the yellow Metal
Can BE Found 81 Home.

ne tsci that gold mining f. being car
rfsa on within the corporate lannsss Of tAs
slsy OF Seattle may sserfis some OF the
investors WHO have allowed their speeala-
i've prccavisles 20 take them and their
money Up into the Trail creek aissriSt ana
snto 80 reservation In a chase Of phantom
fortune. but such Is the case. ana the for
mSifles, as far as location 90, have been
compiled with.
me discovery o. thu dlscoverer OF .he
Seattle gold mines was brought about
oy the report sent in 20 the board Of pub
nc works. by the residents in the neigh
oornood OF Harrison and Victory streets.
that box drain that had been employed
70 carry away the surface water ana se~p-
age from the hillssdes OF the gulch run
ming along the line of what will De Victory
street. IL that thorcus afare - ever opened.
mad become ciogge5 up ard the sfaxnanf
pool OF water accumulated from rains and
drains was 4 menace 10 the health OF thar
nesghborhood-
Superintendent Little. OF the department
OF streets, went out 20 investigate The con-
dition OF affairs. ana to him belongs the
credit or discovering a dsscoverer. on
either side Of the guleh there are some tan
mr. trees, ard on one OF these. 10 the north
west. tackled high up beyond reach was the
official notice OF location made out In reg
uiar form and filed ia, with the single ex-
cepsion or fling or recording
IN the neighborhoo3 1t was stated that
the discoyerer OF the gold mine was a
man who recently came down from Alas
ka and who occupied wee bit of cabin
across the street from his claim" The
name OF this hardy adventurer, who came
20 Seattle from the efYate civilization OF The
Northwest territory and plunged into the
dense mountain passes and prineval for
ests AT the corner OF Harrison and Victory
streets. il Frank Fftz Martin, ard Ike
many other nlustrous names that were
preceded by Fitz. Is destined 20 be in
scribed In the pages OF Seattie's history
az an unique figure. Just now Mr.. Fife
Martins Whereabouts Is unknown. but he
Is believed to be working in logging camp
or infeseing the Cascade mountains. where
he IS probably busy mailing location notices
to the trees IN the wilderness.
Under the staring caption Notice OF To-
cation" Mr.. Martin. or Fitz Martin.
makes bold 70 say that he discovered a
gold mine in the Victory street gnlch July
s and that he located the mine July 10 of
the present year. He sets forth also that
he has complied with the requirements OF
chapter s, title g. of the revised statutes
OF the United States, and with the local
customs, laws and regulations. and that he
has located ------ acres on Victory street,
between Harrison and Republican Streets
as placer mining ground. As far az local
customs Is concerned nobody In rhe neigh
borhood ever heard Of just that sort Of
procedure that Mr.. F1tZ Martin has in
duiged himself IN. In the settlement Of
shacks that reaches from the Fftz Martin
gold mine 20 the bluff that overhangs
tide-water az the foot OF shat ought 40 De
Victory street, but which is converted in
TO a struggling path among the huts and
cabins. the talk Is OF the wonderful dis
covery. One man. who runs a carpenter
shop, and another. who conducts A shoe
shop. claim 10 have seen the 'pay dirt"
that the lucky discoyerer ravishea from
the gravel and the mud In tho Victory
street guiah. The whole community, that
listened In brezthless awe 20 the walking
delegates OF the silver movement. have
turned 10 a proposition OF sound money
and gold and Il would require law and
strong argument 10 convince the neigh
bors about the placer diggings that the
clouds that float over their way from Bal
lard are not lined With gold.
Chapter s, title ~" OF the revised
statutes OF the United States under which
the Fitz Martin mines have heen located
IL divided into thirty-four sections, each
one OF which conflicts with the claims So:
I'D IN the notice on the fir tree I'm the VIC
tory street gu.ch. Mr.. Fttz Martin might
have been led 20 a belief that his claim
was valid ore from the methods am
nieved a. Cook inlet or In the YUKON
country, but he failed 70 note thas the
dedication OF streets by owners OF prop
erty who can show clear title 20 their
possessions would handicap his placer op-
erations.
Eis notice reviyes the story OF the gold
mines IN the city OF the bottomiess har-
Dor, In Pierce county. Tacoma was tbs
scene os considerable agitation a eoupia
OF years ago when the discovery OF gold
was claimed by men who were digging a
sewer, and the whole town fiockea 70 ths
hole In the ground 20 look upon the rarity.
Then the law was tested ard the prior
claim Of freeheiAers established. II Ne
rftr Martin should discover that ths
title to surface property goes as high IN
the air as IL IL possible 20 go. and as deep
IN The earth as can be dug. he would take
sorvn hts notice. TIE very authority that
Is elss-res throws Mr.. Fisz Martin down
at every point. There e nc end Of caro-
crz+gv. law on the subject the reports Of
f'sWsorria, Colorado. Nevada art every
other mining state ard territory srissi@
with Incidents ard illustrations OF the o7-
eratsors OF laws On mining. come Of which
ara history traced IN tire bleed that nowed
from feuas and sghts.
when The weather beats the FILE Martin
notice OF from the nr tree. and the rain
as sell clog up the box Drain agasn. the
,rhahstaY+. or ma listle collection o:
~s,arks viii return 90 their pastoral oc-
~-s-a,ton Of gathering drift wood.
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