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Show I liM i: JACKET veiKiis 1A-Ml'tK. 1A-Ml'tK. Bingham Canon, U. T., ( August 15, 1S73. tidilors fi'afl Lake Herald: j In your paper of August If, 173, I I sec a notice from one A, 1'inedu, agent of the "inamuck Mining Com-; Com-; pany (limited), locatcil in Uingham j Canon, est Mountain District, I Utah Territory; and Ellsworth Dag- gett. Superintendent of .-aid company, j forbiekling any person or persons lo I buy any mineral ore or anything taken from the mining properly I known as the Blue Jacket mine or ' lode, as they claim said mine or ludo j to be in fact the Winamuck mine. Messrs, Edit ojis please permit me, ; through your worthy paper, lo make a statement of facts with regard to what I personally know of the connection con-nection ot the Winamuck and Blue Jacket mines. On the 13th day of August, lo72, 1 discovered the Blue Jacket mine on the Winamuck Hill, Bingham Canon, West Mountain District, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory. Ter-ritory. While working on mydiscov- ery ot the Jlue Jacket, .biisworth Daggett, Superintendent of the Winamuck, Win-amuck, came to me, in company with his mining superintendent then in charge. I there and then askeel Mr. Daggett if I was on any ;;iece ur part of the ground owned or claimed by tlie Winamuck Mining Company. Ellsworth Daggett, Superintendent of the Winamuck Company's mine and works, said, "Mo, your prospect is nowhere near our claim, nor do we want to claim it." He (Daggett) then said to me, "work on, and sink your prospect deeper, and I will buy it from you if you find ore,'1 1 mnk ; my prospect shaft to tho depth of seventeen feet and found ore. Mr. I Daggett had it assayed, but told me I it was worth nothing. I had the same oro assayed and found it to contain forty-two dollars m silver with a percentage in lead. Then I ; offered to sell my Blue Jacket nunc to Ellsworth Daggett, giving him the first chance of it. He (Daggett) then told me that my Blue Jacket discovery was wortldcss. I went to work ami as far as my limited means could allow, al-low, at that time, I developed my Blue Jacket prospect till I found the now well-kmown Blue Jacket mine of Bingham. When Ellsworth Daggett, Superintendent of the Winamuck mine, found that I had struck a large body of ore, and a well-defined ledge, in the Blue Jacket shaft, knowing that he (Daggett) had told me that I was on no piece or part ol the ground claimed by the Winamuck Company, he then commenced a tunnel below me on the hill, and drove direct for the Blue Jacket shaft, knowing, know-ing, at tlie expense of my labor, that he had n good mine there. He ( Daggett) Dag-gett) went on the principle that it is cheaper to steal than to buy, and drove his tunnel through the Blue Jacket foot wali, (one of the best defined de-fined foot walls in any mine in Utah Territory), till he connected with the Blue Jacket shaft; then finding ihat we had a largj deposit of ore in the Blue Jacket mine, and the mine five from any connection whatever with the Wiiiemuck mine, shifted his eli-rection, eli-rection, and drove into the Blue Jacket ore deposit northeast of the main Blue Jacket shaft. Here Daggett Dag-gett has been taking from the Mine Jacket large quantities of ore daily, and yet continues taking the ore from the Blue Jacket mining property, pro-perty, knowing well that he is doing so: as no piece or part of the Blue Jacket mine or lode, as claimed and located by me, infringes on the patent ground of the Winamuck company, or any other part of their property. As Ellsworth Daggett, "the Wina: muck superintendent is mv first and only authority for my statement, if he now pretends to say anything dif-j dif-j ferent he says what lie knows to be I wrong and untrue. Mr. Daggett, by 1 his notices and circulars is usimr his ! utmost to impress on tlie mind of the j outer world that the Blue Jacket i mining company is blackmailing tlie j Winamuck, but he is tlie blackmailer of the Blue Jacket, nnd naturally so j selfish, that he wants to gobble up i the whole Wmamuckmountain, with ' its numberless claims. I I am fifty-live years old, and a ' miner of twenty-five years of practi-1 practi-1 cal mining experience, in gold and silver mining, on the 'Pacific Slope. Xever at any time during that periexl of my mining fife have I knowingly claimed or pretended to make a claim on the property of any man, nor jump any man's right, nor will I stand by to allow any man to take away from mc what I know to 1-e my just right. So Ellsworth Daggett, Superintendant of the Winamuck. has his redress. He can find mc at my work any day, on the Blu Jacket nunc, on the Winamuck hill, in Bingham canon, West Mountain District, Salt Lake county, Utah Ter- , ritory. OwiLn Com:, 1 Miner and discoverer of the Blue I Jacket mine or lode. Au. 17. |