The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-07-03

and suit for dismissal from office are
prescribed for any violation of the Act.
The Act simply forces the Assessors to
raise the valuation in order to raise
sufficient funds to carry on the govern
ment, and as the railroad property
valuation is fixed by the State Boart
of Revenue, and cannot be raised, tn,
corporation is helped both by lower
ing of the rate and raise on the valu
alton on the property of the public
The public should stand in togethel
next election and attempt to wipe out
root and branch, all these corporation
laws, passed under the guise of being
for the good of the people.
Justice Field, formerly of the ST.
preme Court of the United States, an
Judge Hawley of the United State
Circuit Court, both of whom have es
tablished a reputation by their expo
sitions of the mining laws, long ag
defined ledge to be any formation
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ably hope to find ore, and out of which
he could not reasonably expect to fins
ore. This would be the country rock.
and then the miner would be out of his
ledge. Both Judges claimed such
formation was the miners ledge, ant
that the law dealt with the miners
ledge, and had nothing to do with
what biologists called a ledge, and that
the biologists definition of ledge
was not what the miner understood az
a ledge. Therefore, it made no diff
ference whether the formation was
narrow or wide, or whether the rock
was rich or poor, if the miner felt en-
couraged sufficiently to devote his
money and labor in any formation,
with the hope of finding ore, he could
make a location ofsuch formation, and
the law would protect him in his To-
cation. This simple definition of
ledge was a death blow to professional
mining experts, who had been getting
from $4,000 to $4,000 at clip for
their testimony, taking employment
from the highest bidder, and the testi-
mony of experienced miners became of
superior value. Any such miner testi-
flying that he had examined the FORM
alton in dispute, and it was such that
if it was not located he would locate
and work 1t himself in the hope of find
ing pay, would establish the fact that
such formation was in fact ledge, as
against the testimony of any geologist
or professional expert that according
to the definitions given in scientific
works he could positively swear that
the formation in dispute was not a
ledge. Ever since the noted decisions
of Judges Hawley and Field the pro-
fessional experts have been trying to
"get back into court" with new ideas
and theories, to the end that their pc
culiar services may obtain a market
value, and am exceedingly and mex
pressively sorry to say that Judge
Curler, of Reno, has opened the door
very wide to let them in. He holds in
a decision giving plaintiff new trial
in the case of Golden VS.. Murphy and
Byers and others, that even granting
that the defendants patented mine,
which was a prior location, was suffi-
GENTLY mineralized to induce the
miner to make location, and was To-
catable and would support location,
that it did not follow that junior To-
Gator, having the apex of ledge could
not follow that ledge from his apex
down to ore chutes and take that ore,
although such ore is contained in the
general mineralized formation that
was sufficient to sustain a location.
This is equivalent to saying to the
miner, ''you may delve and spend your
time and labor looking for plums in
your pudding, but you can't have the
plums if you find any" CIR, it is
equivalent to saying that locatable
vein may exist inside of locatable
mineralized formation, and may be To-
Gated even within mans own patent
ed lines. In the particular case a
great deal of prospecting had been
done in the mineralized formation,
showing that the miner had reasonable
hope of reward, and assays taken from
the surface plum to the discovered
plum, scraped from the face of the four
sides of the shaft from top to bottom,
revealed an average value of over one
dollar per ton, and yet Judge Curler
claims that the verdict of the jury in