Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-16
COPPER PARTNERS
CANNOT AGREE.
Group Of Seven Mines in Grand
County, Utah, in Dispute.
CLAIMS OF THE FINDERS.


Suit has been commenced In the dis
tr,ct court ut Denver by Howard g
chapln. deputy United states revenue
collector. J. Henry G. Bcckham ana
cain Nero against Anthony N. DArcy'
balm In the federal court TO recover
over a one.haif interest In group of
seven mines In Grand county. Utah.
According TO report the mines are
phenomcnaily rich. The suit dlscloscs
the fact that the internal revenue coll
hector on last st. Patrlck's day be-
came the owner by location Of the en-
tire bunch Of properties which are
known TO be- worth from Si.i0o,oo0 to
8, 100000. The action promises 20 be
one Of the mining sensations OF the
day. involving as II does such an I'M
mense sum of money ana such promi.
ncnt people. An injunction was served
last night upon the defendant. restrain
ing him from selling or cdcunbefing
the mines In any way until the hnnl
determination Of the case.
The suit rccitce history of only two
months ON ~. patricka day OF this
yea. several poor paftlea. while pros
pccting In Utah, ran across the ground
which seemed faily rich In irun, he.
the means TO assay their md. they
dropped It. Howard &. chaplin, hove
ever. knew good thing whom he ran
ncrosa II. and promptly mnde an OK.
animation. From tests he concluded
that the mines were worth develop.
ment. He wanted 5000 to bond and
lease and develop them within one
year. Chaplin was sufficiently wise.
however. 10 keep the exact location OF
the properties secret until he thought
he had the thing cinched.
Two middle men were found who said
they would try to secure man willing
TO put w the $1,000 for development
work. D'Arcy was the man they talked
business with. All this time neither of
the middle men, who were Hickman
and Nero. nor the man with the money,
D'Ary, know anything about the
mines other Uhnn that they were very
rich and located somewhere In Utah.
Chaplin had agreed TO give one-haif OF
what D'Arcy secured by bond aud
lease. The matter. " satisfactorily
conpummatcd. was to result In Chaplin
keeping onc-half darcy throc-cighths,
and hickman and Ncro onc-aixtccnth
the proposition. He agreed 10 look over
the claims aud II they proved salts
factory an represented. he would 80
cure na many AZ he could chnpin
guided the 1900 man 10 his fortune
and showed him over the ground. The
claims were indeed rich. They were
seven In number. In one place. "A vein
ran along for thrcc-qunrtcrr Of mile,
APPARENTLY iron. When reduced. how
ever. II yielded nix ounces In gold TO tho
ton. which shows the value 81 tn,
ground. This was md of gold prac'
ticnliy at the rrnHn roots.
DARCY bonded and leased seven Of
the claims ana n naid 10 have put $50,
Into one OF the groups. Then chaplin
asked for the division. To his alleged
surprise. he was given the cold heart
He says IN hts complaint that darcy
says he wasn't In u at all. Not only
was Chaplin knocked out. az he alleges
but the middle men. Iieckmnn and
Nero. were also lcft out In the cold
The three now BRING suit for five
eiHhthn of the claims. II was stated
last nlRht that the mines were worth
at the least calculation. nearly t2.O0o.
900. being one Of the biggest iinda Of IN,
mining era.