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Show " OLD TITLES." Three Phuii liics(ionN. ;-.. .v S.,U hrte llwil't: As much lias beeu said and many articles written, nKn the subject of "old titles,'' I proiwse, through your paper, to ask three questions, and when they are answered to auk three more. First If there was no validity and equity in the "old titlo" to the Emma Em-ma mine, why did I'ark it Co. pay to Lyon one hundred and fifty thousand thou-sand dollars, gold coin, for withdrawing withdraw-ing his protest, that the patent might lo taken at the land office in Wash- , ington'.' Second After the pntent wiw taken ; to London, if all was right and sound, why die' l'ark A Co. pay Lent one hundred thousand dollars, in coin, not to expose the fraud and rascality in the obtaining the patent, anil other matters relative to the Emma mine ? Third After the patent was over one year old, ml l'ark and his company com-pany owners, in full possession of the mine, why pay the Kiniini Hill consolidated con-solidated company one hundred thousand thou-sand more rather than go to trial, or nitlicr , on will, n lunn ti-inl of fir days, before honest Judge McKean, after the arrangement wns made to pay the hist one hundred thousand? If " old titles " are of nq account, would it not be better to give. one. of them a fair trial, and wipe them out of existence? A . One Who Knows. , |