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Show "OLIt TITLES'" RKIUVIVIS. "Vesuvius" Erupts a IJttle. And rromi IiilOM'xtliis: lorit ul IU-miiiLsceiici's. , i.iing been ah-ent from the city, ih::i!.g li.e Lite dbcu.-.-ion through -file ' 111.;: U.!i. o!" the IncliL- of certain eoli-ui.-lnniis propuuuded by certain "old : till -!'-," relative to txrLuu "old titles' to the Kiunia mine, 1 was umiewhal disappoints! in nol having an opportunity, oppor-tunity, at tlie time, tu answer. I low-ewr," low-ewr," "Pime'' and ,;S.-.)ourn.'r," in ' tht ir answers, s'Viu to have und.-r-' st-tl the situation pretty thoroughly, ; and I fullv concur with them, in their -ug'ji .-ti-'U- of "blaek-mail" as the ! proper an-wer to tlie "plain qurs- tions," and the motive.- that prompted ! the raid em tlie Kmma and other val-! val-! ualile mine's, on the pretence of be-! be-! iug in po-.-es.-iun of a "prior title." The "old tillers,"' too, seem to have ei mferd t bis view of the ease by retiring re-tiring fr..in the eoritrovorsy. so tar v.a the Hki:ai.o and the full light of day is eoneernol; aud 1 had t.vectcd that the retirement and confession would be immediately followed by restitution and repentance. But not so. Wc are told that the business of , tc.-;firi, followed by ejectment suit., is to be continued with renewed vigor; that, not will islanding the- withdrawal of 've plausible Attorney," and his denouncement de-nouncement ol the aforesaid ''business" ''busi-ness" as "vile and impious," and those engaged therein as "thieves and perjurer,'' other attorneys (who by a cheap sys Lc i u of labo r- ng have gained lor themselves ''wealth and position, sir,'") have been Mar.-hall-ed into the traces, whose presence in court alone will be -nllicienl to secure a "continuance" uf any of the said ejectment suits until un-til tlie1'bcautil'ulaumv"ce;iscs to cumber cum-ber the argentiferous hills and fertile valleys of J at tie Cottonwood, which has herelufore prevented the discovery of ores, upon the premises of " prior title,'' and the "tracing'' of tint ore should any be fuund into the: works of tiie party sought Lo be ejected, eject-ed, and without which discovery and ( tracing the plaintitl in said actions of course has heretofore been unable to j secure a fair trial. Hence tiie necessity neces-sity of securing the right kind oflegal talent, u proper display of which will at once secure a continuance of all such actions of ejectment as those, pending against the " Last Chance," " Hiawatha." and " Montezuma" mines, until " the snows," etc., or until the . owners of those mines (which - are -valued at $1,500,000), are made to feelin -thnlepression of i their stocks the necessity of paying tlie ; amount last demanded for their with- " drawal. which, after all, is only five thousand dollars.. . . Xext to efficient lawyers, in such eases, is, of course. - proficient witnesses," wit-nesses," and, this- cxigcuirv, 1 under-, stand, has been admirably provided lor by a kind of ,r--r';rorit treaty, bearing date the 1'ZtU of March, 1S72, aud supplemented a few days ago, by which the services of a very talented Metalurgist, etc., were secured. Of course lie is a very "old tiller," ami is opposed to "palace car jumpers" on general principles. I'.ut it is not my desire or intention to particularize the acts of persons or things in this eunuection. except whe rein they have become matters of record or history -My object is. with your permission, Messrs. Editors, to i give, .--in -a series of articles through your paper, a brief history of the origin nndircsent statusof some of those ' SD-called ' " Old ' Titles," I to so-called mines, or mining lo-! lo-! cations in vLittle' -Cottonwood ; their eharacka and -want or. rather., im oss ibi lit y of development. Also the location, character, and -substan- ' tial development of some of the later , locations, with which these "old ' til!es"have been made to eonliict; the relation, position, of each, jvud , mode or manner of creating such' oontlic-, titm. This will-1 necessitate ft review of certain cases wherein application has been made for patents under the j mining law. and protests filed thereto, and the subsequent action of the gen- oral land department therein. This I shall endeavor to do impartially, and. without any .suggestions as to the ' motives of parlies concerned, leaving j your readers to draw their own -in- 1 ferencs. Vesuvius. |