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Show A VOLCANO IS UTAH. Terrible Eruptions. Smcke and Ashes Obscuring Vision. Trepidation Amid the Impending Gloom. Salt Lake, Oct. 20, 1S73. EMfvrs lL-rahl: The recent eruptions of this remarkable re-markable and historic crater, which your journal was first to chronicle, carry consternation and dismay, beyond be-yond precedent, to every household atleeted. Its past activities were but the whiz of a torpedo compared to its , Inst grand and exhaustive cftorts. j The forces of Nature seem to have I been conserved expressly (or this ter-i ter-i rilic outburst. Everything is strangely wild and chaos apparently imminent. Ancient land-marks and supposed enduring monuments are, in a twinkling, swept into oblivion. The peaceable, industrious, and honest plebians, nestling in fancied security upon the verdant borders of the volcano, vol-cano, awaiting tlie dawn of brighter days, are startled from their midnight slumbers as from some horrid dream, at the alarming disquiet and blighting visitations of an orlended deity. And to gap in the mountains. 1 Shttd-.'k'sa and shelter;, tlie helpless flee, but the gray-haired veterans, the pioneers of these regions ; of tlie at'dictcd, accustom' 1 as ' they are to these exhibitions of the unknown. sland unmoved, un-moved, placidly contemplating the scene, viewing it but a necessity in tho grand economy of nature," an eliort to restore a disturbed equilibrium equili-brium through exuviating channels, as safety-valves, where tlie scum and deadly gases, arising from accumulations accumula-tions of excreta in the process oi l : ehange from chaos to law and order. I find means of escape. ' Tlic-p fcoriftc rivers that roll , ' Their uJplniroui currents down Yaanek, . blistering and blasting to the touch, so . taint the atmosphere,' even, that dc-, dc-, soiation marks their course. "Ycsu- vius" is terrific "crater," but in the inscrutable wisdom of a merciful I Providence the great sources of di;- j , turbanco and plagues of humanity are circumscribed; yet these periodi- i j cat ebulilious undoubtedly conserve I j wise purposes in the great physical laws of tiie universe, as well as those of individuals. It is therefore in a i spirit of loucosion and charity that j we treat 'licni as balancing forces, but j the interests of humanity nevertheless demand tiie interposition ot timely j and judicious checks to this onward flow of contaminating agencies, f.at i the nnhli. u-ial hn nlwrrvrtl j It from these unknown regions of j Pluto, the vomicae had not challenged our analytical attention, that thodis- tortcd position of the primary ele-j ele-j merits entering into ita composition might le- restored to their original ' sunns: this questionable compound, j these cored ing streams, might tlow , on unheeded until engaging other obstacles. But as in other times of pestilence, we are often compelled to expose the hidden accumulations accumula-tions of infecting material that the public may be warned and proVfted, Onlinarily these eruption; would have pa-scd unnoticed; but as untold mil-li'.n; mil-li'.n; are undoubtedly involved in tiie d .main menaced, it is but propfr tii.it so unu.-iial a disturbance should receive brief notice; and 1 hope to be j able to pp.-iii ea h important constituent con-stituent of Ihcvc rnnrbiiie eerrelioui I in thi'ir pmper light and shading to a j di-criniiuaujig and just public. Jn in tlie undertaking, however, 1 1 am aware of the many difficulties to be encountered, the prineip.d our j of which ia to earn- the mind b..ck u i the conditions obuiimng berre t:ic j completion ot the great rah road to i thia mineral region. U"Wv-v.;r.'i.Oj:L,;i , has alreauy been exposed to eonyinrr those intercsti-d that the see-is ot tin.- ; prolong--d ell. .rt were deeply pi uii.-d , in the noted volcanic canon ol Little j Cottonwood a- early as 1605, and a!o. as was intended. under the reeo-nu-.d laws of tlie universe, tlie lo -al customs cus-toms and laws of honest miners, and that protecting care vouch -a fed by our common government. To tin- point, j then, is traced and focalized tne exciting ex-citing cause, and being thus early identified in these basic operation that stretch out so into the ruture, I deem it but just, to say the leat, that a little history pertaining to these o!-scure o!-scure mutters lie resurrected, by which and in other ways, I hope to make ! this part of tlie entertainment as in-1 terealing to the masses if not as pleasing pleas-ing to the few', as that which h;is already al-ready claimed so much of your attention. atten-tion. Without further introductory remarks re-marks I will Urst introduce a few facts and salient points; important to a proper understanding of the coii-tenLsofthe coii-tenLsofthe compound under treatment. treat-ment. And, first of all, I submit such portions of the old by-laws controlling con-trolling the locations of mines in the aforesaid district, as are pertinent in this autopsy; and I will commence with Art. 2nd. which says: "The extent ex-tent of a claim on any mineral vein shall be two hundred feet along the lode, with a width of live hundred feet on each side of tlie kxle, including includ-ing all its dips, spill's, angles, depths, widths, oflshoots, variations, and all minerals therein contained, and priority pri-ority of location shall determine the ownership of all cross or other lodes traversing ground claimed under this law. The discoverer and locator shall be entitle.! to one claim additional for discovery." Art. otli: "Each company com-pany shall do one faithful day's work on their claim, each month," fcc; and Art. Gth says that "Work done, or causal to be done, by the owners of any tunnel, cut, water-ditch, or privilege, in good faith, for th-- bene- ni oi any claim, snau oe consiuereu as done on the claim owned by the person or company." It will there-fore be observed by the above laws, that ali work done lor the benefit, of the mines, i3 work absolutely abso-lutely done on the said mines. Nothing can be plainer than this. To hold a piine, then, under this law, not a day's labor need have been performed directly on the mine itself. In the matter of record, article 7th snys: "All claims shall be recorded within ten days after a notice of location loca-tion shall have been posted thereon, but a notice filed for record in the recorder's office shall be considered in all cases equivalent to a record." Owing to apparent discrepancies, many of these old dates ot record have been sharply criticised, without however, any knowledge whatever of their early h'istorv. Thoy were unquestionably un-questionably tiled with "the recorder properly, but may not have gone upon up-on tlie records -for days or weeks thereafter, and the absence of tho fact appearing there, has enabled some of the limbs of the law to entertain enter-tain (he court by the hour about the frauds perpetrated by the early pioneers, pion-eers, whose principle anxiety was really for bed and board. In those days the most- promising locations could frequently be purchased for a cay use pony.,- There was no object to defraud one another, for this vast mineral region was then unoccupied, but now there is. tin object to color and misrepresent historv. .. The title to the Great Eastern and Great Western lodes, two also of tlie original sixteen locations of l(o, which appear so frequently before the r,ublic of late, were secured und er tlie laws and customs then in iorce, not only by the large amount of money expended in making roads to them and other necessary improvements improve-ments for their benefit with the rest, but also by work directly upon them. Twelve day's work, under tho law, on.caclvaaji.all that was. .required. And let me ask a "rock miner" how much "of a Show- can' he" mftdo- wih that amount of labor on lime rock with an -old pick, without powder, or of what consequence was it, being much or little? " This was the custom cust-om in those days, and what inducement induce-ment was there to do more'.' Work done on the looser portions of a mine, in Cotton wod I especially, of -this amount only, would soon become obliterated ob-literated by filling up. This was why individuals and companies preferred to expend their money in tho preparatory prepar-atory lalor ot building roads and other needed auxiliaries to the mines, and wait tlie advent of improved communications to a market lor the product of their mines Again, the law did not prescribe a limit to the linear measure of a mine, but did to its width. - We ask. now, whether the mines located under those primary laws are protecte.l by thein ? Iftheyaro, tlie oni? thousand feet in width apphed to those sixteen locations of 38'io, nioslly on Emma Hill, with "all the minerals therein contained," X need not say, won 11 render it impossible to project a survey sur-vey for a patent on said hill or immediate imme-diate vicinity, without conllicting with one Oftmoro of those old titles. This announcement, however, is not intended as a stimulus to tlie already al-ready vigorous "Vesuvius," but, as the maps will show, is a fact. And until decisions are obtained from competent com-petent courts, I sec no other way but to submit the facts that all may'judge w-ithout prejudice. If the old by-laws of 18oo and tlie July act of Congress of 1SG6 can be set aside by the courts, then the jumpers win, otherwise old titters will continue to rest upon that base. If, perchance, however, the powers that dc, should ring out a decision de-cision nt some, opportune moment, that Congress was laboring under a tad misapprehension ilj to . the needs of the pioneer miners of those early j times, in their law of 3 COO, and that j the rules and lawj of to-d ly are retroactive, retro-active, reaching back to tliat time, a ' point would be gained by the disall'ec-tcd, disall'ec-tcd, and would also greatly facilitate certain sales of mines and "stocks, undoubtedly, un-doubtedly, that are now under exist ing circumstances barred, especially since purchasers demand tlu.se oM title interests before completing their payments. O. H. 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