The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-05-23
LLOYD INTERESTS SEEK TO
RECOVER VOLCANO MINE

The Lloyd brothers-Alex. Dan and
Daye-through their attorneys. Mari
neaux. Beck. Hansen and Liberman of
salt Lake. filed a complaint last Sat
urday with the Lincoln county clerk
charging the Nevada Volcano Mines
Company with having fraudulently
misrepresented in it's application for
latent for the Volcano lode that IL was
the owner OF the European. better
Known locally as the old Lincoln
@Iaim, which the Lloyd brothers claim
GV location in 1915 and subsequent
compliance with the mining regula-
ask that the Nevada Volcano Mines
Company be declared to hold the Euro
mean claim in trust and be ordered to
convey it by deed to them and to ac-
count for the ores extracted by the
Stindt and Donohue and Big Five
leases.
case. and mentioned in the complaint
as defendants, are the Nevada Volcano
Mines Company, corporation, Charles
Stindt. Edward r. Donohue, William
William S. Carman and Cy Thomas.
The complaint continues that the
plaintiffs We're not aware OF the ming
illness of Dan and the absence of Dave
Lloyd and their subsequent entry into
the United States army that while in
Nevada Volcano Mines Company, and
this company leased the ground to the
parties named as defendants. who have
taken out ore thought to be worth
about $4,000.
The claim in question is one of the
old locations dating back to the days
when the statutory width was but 200
feet and this old limitation in size was
not changed by amending the location
until the claim reverted to the public
domain and was located In 1918 by the
Lloyd brothers.
About 1890 the ground was owned by
William Lloyd, Sam T. Godbe and a
hn ~ haf sp,a
had charge of the Phoenix Reduction
works, the remains of which are still
to be seen just beyond the Meadow
Pioche MIR. Godbe looked over the
Stindt and Donohue lease and philo
sophically remarked: ITS too bad W.
surface and to the workings, during
the years when we owned the prop
April l, 1902, the claim was located
the date of location. he called it tn
pGs nna esn essh r. to caoR asx UI
was mining partner of william
Lloyd. These men held the ground TO
almost thirteen years, doing the Worl
to lapse back to the public domain.
January /, 1915, the claim was locat
ed by the Lloyd brothers AMI calle
Leaving out the usual legal prelimi
naries in the opening paragraphs Q
the complaint setting forth. the ground
on which the ownership OF the clali
is based, the third paragraph reads a
follows:
The said Volcano lode, as describe
in said application, included within II
boundaries all of the claim hereinaboy
mentioned and described as the Euro
pean, owned by the plaintiffs as afort
said; that the said defendant Nevad
Volcano Mines Company at The time
tiled said application for patent, an
at all times, knew that 1t did not oW
and that it had no right, title or intel
est to said claim called the Europea
and that said defendant at said tin
and at all times knew that the clai
European was owned by the plaintiff
that with the intent and purpose
depriving plaintiffs of their said clai
the European the said defendant Il
Nevada Volcano Mines Compar
wrongfully, fraudulently and raise
misrepresented in it's said applicable
for patent that it was the owner
the premises and claim embraced
the European, and falsely and Willfu
ly swore in the affidavits accompanyli
said application for patent that
owned said premises and claim Ell
braced by the European.
The answer to the complaint has
Yet been fled but it is commonly r
ported that it will be strongly contes
ed in the effort to uphold the pate
Volcano Mines Company. f. X.
Nance. Leo McNamee and Frank
stevens are reported to be handling t
c. fnr hn a