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Show STILL "OLD TITLES." Dr. t'oujrar Speaks and peiis 1 1 a Liltltr U i-Uorj. . Severe on liul'" and Lucid uu Caiijou Roads. S.u;r Lake, S-.-pt. 4, li?7o. Edit.,,- U niii: Your issue of to-day contains an artirle owr the cxpn-s.-ive cognomen "Piute," on old titles, which, upon the whole exhibits aut;u rtKirkcd Incite - of tribal character, and of such doubt- ful authority and iinort, a few words may serve to enlighten the balance of his tribe should his obtuseness continue con-tinue u exjxve his native instincts and surroundings. "Piute," if astute as is conceded to the great family to which he belongs, undoubtedly knows that Sdas Brain discovered" those I sixteen claims in Little Cottonwood i mostly, on what is now known as Emma Hill, in is Jo and l&V, for the N. Y.& Utah Prospecting and Mining Company, of which I was a member and superintotulunt at 'the'time, and personally accepted or rejected all locations made by the numerous corps ot prospectors I employed lor the company com-pany during those years. He undoubtedly un-doubtedly knows,. also, that Mr. Brain was under my employ at the time he made these locations, whicii did nut require my presence, nor never have ' I stated I was piwent when - thw said Brain made tlio discoveries. I wasat Pahranayat when the Great .Eastern and Great Western were discovered, looking a tier my prospectors there, and very likely, in some unknown way, crossed the path of this'1 Piute,," as there Is wheiG I first distributed charity hi tho tribe). My testimony in the Haskin and Wall suit was, that I reserved the right, with ah of my prospectors, to fix the initial point to all locations, which I did , in every instance, both in Cottonwood and Pawlanagat, The inference of. "Piute" that old titles in the hands ' of bad men or an unscrupulous company M may be taken advantage of for selfish purposes, is unquestionably true;, and I cannot consistently cross swords with anyone on this point, not even a rmte. And now in elevating "Piute" to tho dignity and -position of the superior race, I . beg of him and associates to remember that tltirty thmtmml dollars was judiciously expended in building roads six miles up that terrible canon, and a far 'better 'bet-ter one thanis traveled to-day,' and-on and-on those mines, smelting furnaces, etc., all for the express benefit .of those mines, and not one dollar was received from anyone not directly interested in-terested in those locations. Our load law at the time required only (icelte davs work to be done oh a location 1000 feet wide and . 4,200 feet in. length. Congress had not then legislated legis-lated upon our mines, and when in July ISOtj it did, it ' fully jton firmed the local law of the miners. Mr.'M. B. Callahan, of this city knows full well that I made bullion at the head' of Little Cottonwood in. 1S6G worth $500 in silver to the ton, and sold it here for lend at eight cents a . pound.. They simply wanted it for 'bullets.; Wc could not ship ore to the Missouri river at twenty-five cents per pound, the price of freight at that time.hcnce old tillers must wait for a railroad, and believing the few locations made-' here were amply secured . by the expenditure ex-penditure of money and labor thereon, there-on, they did wait, nut as the sequel KIUCO, ICHJ lUIiy. J.1 ULI13 CULI1U not e secured under a local law in the absence of all other provisions, by what rule of law can a title-be properly prop-erly secured? ' For three years at least these old titles remained undisputed, ! and would to this day, likely, had not that- road, -constructed in 'ISOO,-. opened the way for these -subsequent!; interests, which arc. now in conflict with those dearly-earned prior titles. To utterly wipe these out, is of course ! not he. But I can never consent, for one moment, for an undue use of those old titles, of which I Jiave ,any 1 knowledge,, to be made to subserve; the selfish purposes' of any 'person,' i clique, or corporation, at the sacrifice 1 of the rights of any subsequent loca- ; tor of mines which may seem to con-. Uict with them. , Dr. 0. H. Conoai;, |