The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15

4 Nt1E anu IuGTCIdIlIS VI L uOl-
umne County, who have often read
of the devious methods of w. f.
Herrin in his various capacities as
general manipulation of the Southern Pa
cific's dubious schemes, not only believe
these charges made against him, but by
the diggers in the mines about Sonora he
is considered a heartless, oppressive man,
who is using his great power of wealth
and position to defraud poor old Italian
miner of a valuable mine. Herrin's agent
in this instance is the notorious Dave
Maggie, whose reputation is too well known
to require airing Herrin's operations in
this mining deal are nothing less than
claim-jumping, if the statements OF the
oppressed miner, his lawyer and his
| friends are true.
From the United States Land ONCE at
| Stockton and the attorney for an OPP
pressed miner at Sonora The Call mas
| obtained the facts contained in the story
of the Carlotta Mining Company, OIL
which w. f. Herrin is president ana Dave
! Maggie superintendent. This company mas
applied for patent on mine which hfi9
been in the undisputed possession Oh one
| man for over forty years, and by most
| peculiar error the surveyor VINO was EN-
| ployed by both sides made a plat locating
| The original owner on a site SIX miles
| from his original location. Herrin's COM
| pany was located on the proper range,
and the land office refuses TO correct the
surveyors mistake. -,
by the original and rightful owner OF the
mine in question has been driven from
his work by Dave Maggie, who STOOD WIN
rife in his hand and threateheo 70 MI MI
any man who interfered with the scheme
he has charge Of Tuolumne miners are
peaceful, aw-abiding citizens, VINO nate
Injustice and despise swindler. IheSe
hardy men have no fear OF Dave Magic
ever ready gun and should his hnger
ever press the trigger and harm an IN
offensive man in that section his PUNISH
ment will be swift and sure. Inese men
who are wrestling wealth from the rocks
are more than indignant at the treatment
one Of their kind has received from Her
rim, Nagle & Co., and they unhesltaIlngIy
denounce the legal adviser OF the hunt
way back in 1850 Francisco Cardemar-
tori located the Venus claim ana re-
manned in undisputed possession OF the
property up to a year ago. he worked
hard and necessarily to develop the prop
erty, and success was about TO crown ms
years of labor and poverty, when ne ne
learned that several rich and powerful
men claimed his property. The Carlotta
mine had been located In 1889, anu was
being worked by its owners, sutton anu
Symons who sold out to the company
which now seeks control of and title 10
the major portion of the Venus claim.
Cardemartor believed the Carlotta was
the adjoining claim to his own, on when
he had labored for over forty years. pc
lieying his title was safely established
and not o S1 of an his mine he paid no
attention to the work being zone on the
mine near his own. He was fortunate
enough to strike rich vein ana was lu Jug
beginning to develop It. Never antlcl-
pating that his claim was pracucally the
same as the Carlotta, the aged miner con-
tinued his daily efforts 70 extract tne pre-
cious gold from natures strong box, Sc
renely Indifferent to the operations going
on not far from his tunnel.
The Carlotta claim was u, LOT SAFE LOT
several years, but no one familiar with
the country or the conditions would BUY
1t, as it was not patented, and the ola
Italians claim was recognized as ,s ne pei pet,
there was q conflict in the claims, but
as the question had never been brought
to an issue the matter only came up Wnen
references to the sale OF the Cariotta We're
made About year ago agents OF ii. 10.
Huntington and Herrin went to Tuolumne
County to seek some good mining invest.
ments. One of these agents was Dave
Nagle who was not known except by ms
unenviable reputation at that time. VII
liam Symons, Fred Sutton and r. W;
Street, the owners of the Carlotta, sold
their interests in the mine to the repre-
sentatives of the railroad people, Before
the sale was contaminated, however
these agents were informed by half
dozen Tuolumne miners that the old Ital-
ian had better title to the property
than the vendors. To one of these people
Dave Maggie is reported to have said:
1--WE have bought all the interests we
intend to buy. and we will get that mine"
Soon after this Herrin's company hled
an application for patent on the Car
lotta mine. This application was pub
lished according to law and, seeing the
notices bearing the description of the
Carlotta claim, Cardemartori learned for
the first time that the mine on which ne
had spent his life and labor was claimed
by others. He went to his American
friends for advice and they told him to
go to the Carlotta people and explain his
position and sell out. Acting on this coun-
sci the old Italian sent a friend who was
coming to San Francisco, to see Herrin.
The miner called at the yellow building
and after waiting nearly whole day
finally succeeded in seeing the grand po-
litical mogul. Herrin would not listen to
the man and dismissed the interviewer
with heartless sentence. The rights of
the poor old septuagenarian miner did not
concern him: He would be guided wholly
by his agents-and gun-f1ghter Dave Ma
gle was one of these.
Cardemartori again sought his friends
and they told him to get lawyer to pro-
tect his rights against the heartless har-
pies who were trying to GUST him from his
property. John P. OBrien, the Sonora
attorney, took the miners case in hand
and prepared to file an adverse claim, CIV
ready stated. The Carlotta company had
filed their application for a patent, hav-
Ing their alleged claim surveyed by Dep
uty Surveyor Barton Of Sonora. Attor-
ney O'Brien protested against the issu-
ance of the patent on the Carlotta and
then set about to prepare his clients case
for submission to the Land Office officials.
Surveyor Barton was employed to sur
vey the Venus claim He made the neces-
sary drawings, delivered them to O'Brien
and submitted the plat and aff1daVits to
the Land Office at Stockton.
Several months elapsed when the Land
Office finally informed Cardemartori that