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Show OLD TITLES AG A IX, "Ono Who Known Answers NoJonrncr-"t'oiuci Again I Salt Lake, Sept. 3, 1873. Editors tterahl : In the Herald of Yesterday "Sojourner" "So-journer" says he is totally ignorant of tbo facta which may bo involved in these interrogatories and hence unable to reply categorically to either of them. I think he in ignorant of the facts or he would never liavo "put his foot in," as he has. I propose now to answer liis three inquiries : First. If there was any validity or equity in the "old tide" to the Eninm mine, why nhotihl Lyon withdraw his Srote.-t f.rono hundred and tifty thousand oilars and allow I'ark & Co, to fell it for million ? Answer. Lyon owned less than one sixth of the "old title," but protested pro-tested for all; and it appears that he'd rather slip oil' to Washington with l'ark it Co.; withdraw the protest; thence to Ixindon ami get his one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, coin, for his one sixth ; nnd remain there to this day, than return to Salt Lako and law for nine hundred or more thousands iu currency. SfCond. After tko patent wns taktn to London, if nil wn not right and sutitid. why should Lent aeecpt of 0110 hundred thousand dollars for not exposing any fraud thero may have been in obtaining the patent and thus permit Tnrk A: Co. to consummate the salo ? Answer. Lent owned one tenth of "San Francisco Emma," and was furnished with all the papers and proofs. He was sent to London to talk with Park & Co., nnd settle at It appears that he preferred to take one hundred thousand dollars in coin for his one-tenth interest; and remain there most of the time to this day rather than return to Salt Lako anil take the slow delay of the law for 'one or more millions. ThirdAfter thi patent was over one year old, and Park and his company, owners, were in full possession of the mine, if tlio Ktnma Hill Consolidated Company had any title to the properly, legal or equitable did not the officers of that Consolidated Company basely betray theeonlidenee placed in them by the stockholders, stock-holders, when they consented to barter away millions in value for the paltry gum of one hundred thousand dollars ?j Answer The officers of the company com-pany owned about nine-tenths of all the stock; and "Sojourner" will find out, if he watches this game, that they knew very near what they verc doing, as we have many games in America that arc not out tmil pmal oid. - j ' - This is the light in which the questions of the lid int. uro viewed bva stranger. One other question is quite as forcibly suggested by the premises. "Wherein did the claimants, of those so-called "prior titles," depart in the slightest degree from the beaten path of the professional blackmailer? black-mailer? ( Answer Wherein did the "new title " men, who held the mine for Park fc Co. with one hundred revolvers revol-vers and fifty Henry rides, depart in the slightest degree from the lien. ten path 01 professional robbers? Come again. One Who Kxows. |