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Show "OLD TITLES" REDIVTvTJS. Lit tie Discrepancies. RU'li (old Ore.-Argeiitircrous IruH versus lroii. Salt Lake, Oct. ?. 1873. Editwt Herald : I have already stated, in a former communication, that one of the grounds of objection to the grim ting nf patents to the applicants for the Caledonia and Cincinnati mine?, a; i TrfiMi!tt t.br said mining claims crossed the General : Grant lode, the alleged property of Mr. Haskin. But these protests con- i tained other similar objections, and , also allege that the Caledonia mining 1 claim crossed the Mount Pleasant and Ohio lodes; and the alleged contlic-tion contlic-tion was shown in the usual way by a diagram or map of said Mount Pleasant and Ohio lodes, and of the Caledonia mining claim. This diagram dia-gram represents the Ohio and Mount Pleasant as parallel lodes, and running run-ning in a northwesterly and southeasterly southeast-erly direction; but, with reference to the Mount Pleasant lode, it is evident that either the protestant or the Caledonia Cale-donia Mining Company have been most shamefully imposed upon, as an erasure and forgery have been perpetrated perpe-trated upon the record of this location, loca-tion, by changing the word "south" to "north," this having the effect to represent the course of the Mount Pleasant lode northwesterly instead of southwesterly, as originally located and described. There is one othkr feat L" be In the history of this lode that may not be uninteresting in this connection. connec-tion. It was located in tho fall of 1S6-5, bv D. H. Cougar, ?t al., and relocated by J. T. Miller, et ah, Del. iMst, le7, the recorder at the same time certifying that the same was subject to relocation, under the lawe of the district. Dr. Cougar, who has heretofore been referred to in connection with these "Old Titles," as an experienced and skillful metallurgist, assay er, Ac, in his report to the "President ol the New York and Utah Prospecting and Mining Company," dated New York, July, 1867, reterring to this the Mount Pleasant lode simply says "Iron lode, one foot wide, vein lengtl 2,2H) feet." The "prospectus" ol said company, in which is puhlishct the report, gays "Tho most carefu scientific testi were made by Dr Congar, who visited every lode, and noted the comparative value of each.' As we have already olwerved, thi gentleman was interested in all these i locations, at the date of said report. , and also at date of filing tho " pro- j tests;" and I might add, is still so in- ( terested, unless it can be inferred frm bis "card" published in the Hf!hald, that he has recently sold out. Thus it will bo seen that he had the strongest possible reasons for representing the property to be of the utmost value, consistent with the facts collected from "careful scientific tests." men ooi.n assays. He reports at the same time to have obtained, b careful tosts, :)7. 13, liVO.OS. and' J-ll-'.iVJ gold lo the ton respectively, from or selected by himself from' the Atlan'.ie Cable', West Mountain, and American Fagle lodes, Little Cottonwood. The lXv tor would be likely to see to it, therefore, that the protests were of the strongest possible character. And as it appeared in the late Wail-llas-kin investigations, that he framed most of" Lie diagrams attached to the numerous protects, it is not unfair to presume that he framed those used in the cases above Mr. Haskin, in his estimate of the value of those several lodes, has far OCTSTIliPrED THE DoCTOK. Although he didn't siy anything about gold or iron, and although Pr. Cougar's superior skill, as au"e.pert" in such matters, must be conceded, yet Mr. Haskin's statement arc "sworn to and should be accepted as true. Of the Mount rieasaut, Ohio find General Grant, Mr. U. says, that "immediately after said mining claims were so located and recorded, the said locators commenced to work, and mine on their respective locations, loca-tions, and remained constantly ia the possession thereof, working upon the same; ai:d within six motiiiis lru:n tiie date of said locutions, September ' ISoo.) the said locators had done and performed work and labor on their respective locations of said General ' Grant, Mount Pleasant and whir, lodes, in mining thereon, and developing devel-oping the same, of more than sixtv days work, and had expended more than three hundred dollars: and by said labor; and money expend-xi had developed each of said lodes. the same being rich veins of argentiferous galena ga-lena ores, and extracted from each "f said kles more than fifty tons of said ore." It will Ihj rcnieml'Oreil that the above stutement relates to a time Sixteen months prior to the date of the report upon the amc, referred U above, wherein it said, ' the M unl Pleasant is an iron lle, one :-ot wide," "onh that and not hi m: more." Nfow I am not williu to believe that Dr. Congar ir1teud-d to conceal truni his company the fact that the Mount Pleasant was a " rich vein of argentiferous gal-na ore." and especially espe-cially that "more than fifty tons of said ore" hail been almidv extraeUtl therefrom, at the nominal expense of ttiree huinlrf d. liars, but am rather , inclined U tiie opinion that Mr. Has- I kin innocently coiiM-ntcd to tiie use of j hit name to the statement, for the puriKJ'-s of the prou kI. 1 Tiie l'iut.-t auaint the Cincinnati l is of the same iurni, the ewnn; conllict being alleged. The unly material difference dif-ference in the two cases is liiat diagrams dia-grams of the tieneral tirant. Mount Pleasant and Ohio lo-bs, represent the course of those lodes to be at variance, var-iance, some fifteen or twenty degrees ' from that represented in the Caledonia Caledo-nia case, a discrepancy that is the more significant from the fact that Mth cases were fileil on the iime day. I find AS KKKOlt In my former article, referring to the I dute of filing the protests in the I alove cases, 1 should havo said Dec. Mth in-trvvl nf Dec. Pg, IS71. On the lL'tlidayofltecember, lb7, fr. Haskin, as "agent of the Kmma Mining company, ofS.m F. ancisco," filed a previous proh-st against the Cincinnati application, in which he alleged that the Cincinnati crossed the St. Louis, 1'iHsbiu-g, Fast Mountain Moun-tain and Cnicago k-les, the property of said company. The diagrams in this c;isc represent the lodes as riming rim-ing in alout the same direction as the Mount Pleasant, Gen. Grant and Ohio, and would seem to cover al tout the same ground covered by them. I have a number of other cases, yet, to refer to, with your indulgence, which 1 doubt not will trove eminently eminent-ly more interesting to your readers than any heretofore examined. V'FSl'Vll'S. |