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Show I SUNDAY MORNING'S C0RRU3- j j CATIONS. : I'lhe Latest Pull' from "Vesuvius.' , ItrilH:iul I ridcsopiicc. ' Salt Luce, Nov. Cd, l7o. Klil-. s H-ruhl: My commiseration is again cxei- i ted bv tlip frank aeknowleilgment of j : the oldiquity and dullness of my erup-! erup-! Live friend, and to the extent that 1 ; ask tlic privilege of once more coin-' ing!o his aid. Those "jewels of' consistency " so kindly suggested, ' were too deeply buried beneath the 'l-l'i i:: of former eruptions, to impress his obtuse vision; but, that I may I render needed assistance, I will at- tempt to illumine his dark pathway with their unseen brilliancy in anoth- or brief exploration for them. j One of two tilings is evident, from j the character of these late eructations. ! Either the sources of information are I very much corrupted, or, true to the ! hibernating instinct, wise provisions I are being made in anticipation of further fur-ther '' suspensions " and dull times. For my purpose it is immaterial which. Tne brilliant display of Sun- day morning, however, will be irredeemably irre-deemably tarnished by the lustre of ineontrovcrtable facts; and thai they may apoear, I first ask why Messrs. Park it Co. hold several hundred thousand dollars of the vendor's money mon-ey of the Emma in escrow in New York until such time as these old and i:uiihl..-i.t fillip should be obtained? And also, why did the " London Emma Em-ma Limited " require a much larger amount to be placed in escrow by said i'ark tfc Co., the vendors to them, until the said old titles should be secured, se-cured, notwithstanding the immaculate immacu-late Druminond had already switched out a United Suites patent on the same? My point is simply, that the old titles hail engaged the Courts in Nevada and California for years, and had ativtii.t come off victorious; and the apt student and Senator from the latter State well knew that they would ultimately win in Cottonwood, and so stated while examining the ground at the lime those old initial points were readjust!. Hence the Emma sale could only be consummated upon up-on a heavy contingent. I pretend to say that cautious business .men will hesitate to dabble in jumping jump-ing titles with the history of like operations ope-rations on the famous Comstoek lode, in Nevada, before them, where scenes were enacted which are now transpiring transpir-ing on the old titled mir.es of Little Cottonwood. Old - titles invariably came off victorious in all of those early struggles, and if the prophetic ken of the noted adept and honorable United States Senator from that State correctly pierces the future, the same will be the ultimate result here. It was in view of these facts of record that I made the statement which so touches the sensibilities of " Vesuvius. Vesu-vius. Again: he honors me with the acquaintance ac-quaintance of the plethoric Michi-gandcrs Michi-gandcrs who were so cruelly kept dangling over the yawning abyss of uncertainty; cazinc at the bhantom, old titles. In this he is very unkind, for such honor was not deserved. " Vesuvius" also imagines he has me on Ins hook, in trying to dodge an . explanation alwut tlr: discrepancy, casting a shadow over the initial pom' of theT Great Eastern location; but in this also I am free to say he errs. The old by-laws, possibly, might shed a ray of light upon this mystery, if the anxious "Vesuvius" would take the trouble to consult them. But being generously disposed, I will excuse ex-cuse him from taking that trouble by informing him that no provision is therein made for designating the initial ini-tial point of a mine more than placing plac-ing a notice -of tho same thereon. Stakes or mourjls were not required. Hence, ivlion Mr. Brain discovered the said Great Eastern mine, alout Grizzly Flat, it was one thousand feet wide and four thousand feet in length, under the law; but knowing he could not establish the initiai point to the same, that being my prerogative, he carried a duplicate of said notice in his pocket, the original being placed on file with the Xiecorder at Camp Douglas, until my return from Pah-ranagat. Pah-ranagat. Mr. Brain never put up a stake or established the initial point to one of those sixteen ltitio locations. Now, in a word, why I placed the initial point of the Great Eastern mine where I did yas, that in projecting adits, they might traverse the greatest possible number of the locations, I knowing full well then that the initial point was on only vein matter, but near the northwesterly northwest-erly terminus ot it, were the crop-pings crop-pings thaf. are now known as the Lost Chance, Hias-atha and uiher mines. There could not have been selfish motives at that time, and I doubt whether the simple omission to correct the notice so as to read one quarter of a mile, more or less, instead in-stead of one and a quarter miles, n.s the original surely read iostcad of two miles. wiil not make it appear so now, especially in iew of ihp fur f her explanation ex-planation concerning those contemporary contempo-rary mutilations of the records. In this, the brightest jewel in the constellation consistency seintilates in the diadem encircling ihe biow of our censor, Obtuseacss, over-credulity, or a corrugated cor-rugated purse are pardonable excuses for errors in a hero, even; but malicious mali-cious intent cheeks the llow of char--ity. Like the "Sepia" who attempts to elude pursuit by a discharge from its ink-bag, the following will also expose ex-pose a similar attempt by our "Vesuvius:" "Vesu-vius:" It was in June 1S71 that the old initial points were established, and at this time neither the Last Chancenor Hiawatha mines were known. Soon after Mr. J. W. LJ as-kin as-kin employed Mr.Jaaies Wall, the old ro,nr,lnr "nt" "ISJ".. tn ni?iL-(i n It-tip copy of all the old iecords to date and have them properly certified, which was done. At this time no mutilations mutila-tions had occurred or been complained complain-ed of. Nearly, or quite, a year thereafter, there-after, Mr. lia.-kin, desiring another transcript of said old records, employed Mr. Bcntham Fabian for the purpose and he also produced an immutilaUd copy. This last copy ol Mr. Fabian's, as well as the original records, were exposed to the public. Some time alter this sale was projected to Mr. Winsor and hw associates, by the friends of "Ycsuutu," these two w cord wure found to bo mutilated, and also first discovered by them. Now for the "jewels of consistency!" The copy by Mr. James Wall still remains in its prisiino purity.it being the only one of the threo records not accessible by the public. There are no mutilations mutila-tions of its pages. The . old abstracts ab-stracts of titles also antedating the advent of these disaill-cted ones by yearn, arc pure and untarnished by the hand of Ihesneak-tuicf. Ihesneak-tuicf. My privato records and other j certified papers, are also without a I blemish. Now, why have not thtee records, which have constantly, been in the hands of oid tillers, suffered the. same iHutiia.Uu:is foacd in those ae-ccaaibie ae-ccaaibie to the public, in thu face uf the facts, alio, of certain panics openly, open-ly, and withuut reserve, ncjuriuy they j wiil never rt&i uiuii all old tillers arc ruined. Shall I dig again for those lost "jewels?"' I unwillingly make the at ovu analysis, analy-sis, fur I harbor no unkind feclhyrs ti-w.ird anyone, but the integrity of mv earlv operations', in Little Cotton-wcvd, Cotton-wcvd, I am forced to guard, otherwise I should H'-'t intrude rnvsclf up' n the publi... I w v.ild st, in ei'iielu-ioii, for the I.-u. lit oi" thuse rtntagoniing old tiths, that they act like cumulative pois -n- in the human orguii-m; the more yuu tir th. rn up t'ue ner they c;ain the m istrv. j O. H. CoNfi Mr. j |