Show our southern notes mates nis c G borg r part party v audits and its cache e 14 1 on our arrival 1 uv rn the valley we found a large arge party numbering ng C about twenty gentiles I 1 mainly from the M of salt sail lake lak city ci ty oli diligent figen fly at work perfecting the ill mines nes bd CW and nd apparently that the I st na iia leads avd we ive also ascertained georae t party heretofore mentioned in the previous notes under the leadership of pres president alt ait snow in their recent visit had ap parent patently ly concluded that the mines were a pretty good thing thin even for far fo r saints d q that abey had bad assumed the right ight to ignore the proceedings of the ting L some tinie lime before ef rire and in the tenT temporary absence of recorder mr sherwood had established a taw ew I 1 mining district adopted another set of f mw minitia ws lawn law and elected wilbur 1 E erl arl recorder not only this but a little investigation showed that they had set their stakes sq as to jump 17 at least one of the claims before located by shirts sherwood co we were insured by mr earl that it had bad not been the intention of any of the party to jump or interfere with the claims of prior locators and upon going to the ground and showing to lihn him nd mr ivans the surveyor of the st george party par ty the original stakes and notices of the sau salt lake party tay both th them betm ed A very short conference MSO also convinced convince il them of the alleg illegality clity of their pro cefai in attempting 0 to electa elect a new recorder and bayl and ivans before we left recorded their own claims with sherwood the legal recorder of the district there seemed to be a very general misapprehension on the part of the st I 1 george party part I 1 y and their wocia tes as to their rights in the premises aliey c conceiving that tile the temporary and nee cesary absence of sherwood from the district authorized 1 ahem em to elect a new recorder however ml ah parties were soon busy tt at w work 0 oric KI in concord and the little cloud arcon of contention soon blew over when the facts came 61 to 4 ViI S tIly understood ot of the locations made by what we have termed the st george 1 P party r ty ly t the he following were the most imp imbor ort kiwit banack er co 2400 meadow feadow valley coi co st george co 2800 the danacker Pa company staked off their ground in a norih wesl weilt and southeasterly south basterl easterly y direction I 1 the meadow valley company adjoining J them on cm abe southeast south east ext extension eitson SOn these claims ft was joll found nl were on tle shirts lead discovered loc located abed and recorded lay by peter shirts shirt co two months previously the st george company also clai claimed nied a lead running along the crest or of the hill in an east and west direction ow over r or through anim an immense mass ing of rock adjoining them them 41 on the east the meadow valley G gm yany party clahan feet move more some or of the old experienced apel win tamers ers there ii ballag avin expressed surprise that the st george party containing nien men smarter than were yet to be born should have located it a lead in such a place and in such a gi direction we were favored with a legend current in those parts parte which runs as follows an enterprise lag italian named bonelli passing one da day y the hamblin discovery hole at the foot of the bill and seeing the littering glittering ore lying around in profusion and strewed about tile the ground thought it was a shame to 10 lose ae so much silver so 0 o packing on in his mule all that it could earry lw b took a couple of hundred up lip wi t tw hill aud cached it bro B the indefatigable fatiga ble bame along ami d with his accustomed industry in went prospecting eting and picking all over tilt the region hunting fol the celebrated vein sure oi enough lough on oil the wow of the hill where the limestone ended the italians cacote fe he was struck with something of the and joy of the ancient philosopher bro B hellod out in plain saxon sureka bureda I 1 ite it and forthwith down wea ewt bs bid stale altig for self arid and friends 4 feet lt it wag w generally agreed down there that tb at it wo bailly for 1327 B but bufa they do wy that bg turns pale M the riven atlow when a chap accosta him with B how bow krout that t ac Aey suh sach was w the legend leq t st aipuu t and wt we agreed bat to say anything about b ft ia ao nontia im iolli y N berfect cod Mu IV dence once to our aw id y 1 ers jbf without yf vouching 0 fochts strict veracity acety aralio aili ebere were L 1 OR abany ay icalas up hp by the stauts arid and i with willi earl barf none of alieni interfered ered with the ori original t discoverers and claimants claimant except upon tile the shirts Shirt lead and the last earners comers abandoned that when they learned the facts so all is harmony peace and good will and saint all and gentile RI are 0 at work in happy accord on mount Pa danacker tile the waudell gold and silver mining company Com pally also took up lip some feet of a new lead discovered by tb em and recorded with earl on our return however we demet met them on the way back to pa from beaver for the pur purpose purposed of trans ferin foring 0 their record from earl to sherwood and of pl prospecting their vein by dinki sinking ing a shaft |