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Show TRE EMMA MINE. Hauled Into Court Again- As we stated in a brief notice yesterday yes-terday morning, there were rumors in the air concerning the Little Em pi a, of old time notoriety and litigation liti-gation fame. These rumors have now assumed tangible shape, and the Emma has again been taken into court. On Tuesday evening the mine was attached at the suit of the county collector, to secure the payment of taxes to the amount of $4,100; but this was only a mite, a drop in the bucket, and it is doubtful if the proceedings would have been taken, had not another and more formidable cloud appeared in the already darkened sky of the 1- mm a. The recent visit of the Hon. ; T. W. Park to this city has borne its fruit. He instituted two suits against the Emma Company, for an amount aggregating $120,962.37. One is for $110,000, money alleged to have been advanced to the company by Park previous to December 1st, 1872. The other is for 510,962.37, said to be due on a promissary note given by the company to D. C, Haskiu of the Illinois Tunnel Company. The latter suit is brought by Mr. Paik as director direc-tor of the New York Loan and Indemnity In-demnity Company.- Early yesterday moruing attachments for the above amounts were levied on the mine by Deputy United States Marshal Smith. Were any other of the big mines of Utah attached for so large a sum, it would have a universally injurious effect on the mining interests of the , entire Territory, but this suit will have little influence on other properties, pro-perties, and indeed on none outside of those directly interested. The manipulation of the Emma has been such that few care for its fortunes or misfortunes, and it is no longer an indication as to the merits of Utah mines in general. At ouo time the E.nma was the mining barometer of Utah aud the balance of tho mines were viewed with favor or disfavor according as that wore a good or bad appearance. . So much was every other ledge weighed in the scales of the Emma that when bad management manage-ment aud ring jobs depressed the value of that property, all have had to suffer with it, and the" injury which it has done to the Territory could not be repaired by the discovery and development of a score of richer mines than the Emma ever was. Far better would it have been had the ore in it been sunk to the earth's centre, than that it should be found and turn out as it has a Territorial injury and a national disgrace. dis-grace. - "; We understand the attachments will not interfere with the working of the mine, which can be carried on as usual under the present management. manage-ment. The suits are brought merely to force a settlement of long pending claims, and not to unnecessarily op-pres op-pres the Emma Company. |