The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-16
TRYING TO GUST
ALAMO OFFICERS

Following close on the heels of tho
news of a bonanza strike, the Goldfeld
Alamo Mining and Leasing company is
involved in litigation over control OF
the company and ownership of the ore
o being produced from one of is
claims near Hawthorne, at the rate of
100000 per month, which, it is ex.
pected, may soon be increased to $780,,
900.
Charges of fraud, Misrepresentation
to the public, deliberate hammering of
the value of stock, jumping over the
limits of a lease into bonanza ore, and
other allegations of sensational char
acter are embraced in a complaint filed
in the district court by Attorney j. j.
Clark and Augustus Tilden, represent
ing r. V. lie Grand, George Clark,
Dixie lie Grand and Mrs. Frank u.
Bell. The plaintiffs are all stockhold-
ers. Among the defendants are l.. l..
Patrick, John H. Miller, the Hawthorne
Mines company, J.. +. Adams, Edward
Halter and J. d. Hubbard.
Miller is president of the Alamo com
pany; Adams is secretary and Halter a
director. The first two control the
stock, and the complaint says they Sc
lect only such directors as will do their
bidding. The Alamo OWNS, among
other claims, the Mountain King, ia
which immense deposits of silver-lead
ore worth 800 per ton have been dis
closed. Ore to the value of $3.50, 1000
monthly has been shipped from the
claim since last June, the complaint
and the parties having the lease
expect to increase this to $150,000 per
month.
Jumped Lease Limits
1t is alleged that at the time Miller
and Adams got control of the company
Miller had in his own name a lease
covering only the east half of the
Mountain King claim, which expires in
August. Miller and Adams, it is said,
found that the ore bodies extended be-
vond the westerly limits of the lease
and into the west half of the claim, and
this fact is said to have been known to
them before they secured control of the
Alamo company. They are said to have
auo..oJ +Ln lima aud ay+paotaI MANY |
tons of ore running 800 per ton. They
are also charged with having failed to
pay royalties.
Another phase of the tangle shows
that Miller and Adams were the owners
of the Lucky Boy group of claims, con-
to the Mountain King, and all
ore from the latter has to come through
a tunnel whose mouth is within the
limits of the Lucky Boy property, $50
that the impression became public AMI
general that the ore came from the
Lucky Boy group of claims, and this
was given out and published
in order to conceal from the plaintiffs
and all other minority stockholders of
the defendant corporation the fact that
said wrongful acts were in progress.
Sold Lease for $4,000
Last October Miller and Adams sold
he lease on the Mountain King to L.
Patrick and J. ID. Hubbard for $780,,
900, and appropriated the money, SO
the charges run. They are said to have
represented to Patrick and Hubbard
that the lease covered the entire claim,
instead of the east half.
The complaint demands that Mille,,
Adams and Halter be removed as Of
fcers; that they be restrained from re-
any proceeds of ore; that a re-
ceiver be named for the west half OF
the claim; that Adams, Halter and Mil
Ter be required to account to the court
for $4,000 received from Patrick and
Hubbard "for said pretended lease OF
the entire a~rea;o that the defendant
account for the gross ore taken from
the west one-half, and that the Alamo
company nave judgment against the de-
PENDANTS for just double such gross