The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-05

The most important man in mining
camp is the recorder. He is usually
some one that was elected secretary OF
ward political meetings when he came
from in the states He writes a plain
hand, sometimes mechanical. He is
polite and very obliging about election
time He will hunt up all the vacant
claims i'm the district and then go and
hunt up claimants to fit them, but
they must be people that will vote Tor
him or they will not get smell of a
claim. If a well-dressed gentleman
comes along and makes a cOntidant OF
the recorder, and tells him that he rep
resents an eastern syndicate worth
$40 900 600 the recorder will lock up the
records and go out with the representa-
tive and show him all the claims that
are relocatable in the district. Ihere
will be great COmmOtiOn in the record
er's office. wise looks, frequent eXpedi-
lions late in the evening or early In
the morning, and after all the rest of
the camp are gone to work they viii
be seen slipping out with pole pick
on their shoulder and location notices
in their pockets
This is and can he repeated year. az
ter year, until book after book is 1lled
and the recorder has money out on
interest There have been cases where
leaves have ben torn out of tn record
books that had obnoxious records OF
claims that turned out good and the
real owners were gone somewhere else.
In that case some one of the recorders
friends will take the claim. and If the
real owner returns the recorder VIII
do the swearing act for his friend, so
there is little use to quarrel with the
records or the recorder, and no use to
go to law. Unless you own the record
er. there should be no recorder except
the county recorder.
The Colonel.
The Justice OF the peace is an all
important man. To say to him that the
mining camp could do without him
would be contempt OF court, and pun
ishable with Imprisonment to the full
extent Of the law How dignified he
looks when the constable calls the court
to order. How he clears his throat and
prepares for action. How he grows
when an attorney gets up and says
Your honor" About that time les
pecially if he is q little fellow he is
at least six feet high and weighs 400
pounds How he does love to throw
cases ont of court, and what few
cases are appealed to the higher courts
and thrown out by them. How he viii
be found in the saloon afterWaTd tell
inS what asses and numbskulls those
judges are, and takes another drink IL
somebody is treating, and locke wise,
but really does not weigh as much nor
is he as heavy as he was when he
tried the case. The court has much
the saIneness of the Puddin' head VIII
sons court in the play.
The Doctor.
The doctor is of still more import
ance if such a thing is possible. He
in most cases came with the hndlng
of mineral in that particular camp.
He wears a large overcoat with fur
collar in the winter. with long driving
gloves to match. In summer he has
that old buster that he wore last year
He also has a blackboard and a pair of
horses. which may be seen going at
bFeakneCk speed; that is to say, IT
would break their neckS to go any
faster, bat there is no need of them
going any faster, as the doctor IS lean
inc forward and going at a 2.4O-galt,
i'm his imagination. When he arrives
at the poor patients how he will feel
his pulse and ask the patient to put
out his tongue (eVen if his leg Is bro
ken). and look wise and with short
breath exclaim: Il may save his Cor
herr life. but you should have sent for
me sooner" even if the accident had
lust happened. He Will take a drink
with you on this occasion, but he sell
dom drinks, ne might have added IN
less he was alone or with somebody
If there are two doctors the other fell
low is a quack, no matter which one
Won NAV be talking with. If anybody
is sick and does not get well quickly,
the doctor in attendance will advise
the patient to go to Salt Lake, DuI VIII
never call the other doctor in, as he
should do. even as the Salt Lake doc
tor will advise his patient 70 go 10 cal
ifornia when he can't do anything LOT
him, so as to get him out OF the way
of other doctors, to the great expense
of the poor patient who can i'll afford
it.
The Expert.
The expert is the joy of the poor
miners life. There are many KINDS,
so that one has to make a study of
them. We have bad so many here in
Deep Creek that they have withered
everything above ground. They all
come and go in hurry. He is wanted
in almost all the camps from British
Columbia to the Gulf of Mexico, ana
must get back 10 the city at such a
time. Some come with one eye-glaSS.
with a silk cord hooked in the vest;
some with gold-rimmed glasses. These
have their hair parted in the middle.
They look very much like doWn-eaSt
schoolmarm. A few have kOdaks. They,
too, wear glasses. I have yet to see
one who does not represent millions,
I have yet to see one who was not
treated free to every thing Some poor
miner that could III afford to have his
mine or prospect condemned put up for