Show underground GRAND LARCENY the recent order of judge marshall in the case of the silver king consolidated vs the silver king coalition of park city in which a charge of unlawful extraction of ore is made and sustained by admitted evidence of the defendant is one which in h creating widespread wide spread interest in mining circles throughout the west and shows in a most startling manner that there are other methods of robbing a mine surreptitiously than by the usual means of high grading in this cle case almost every known means was employed in order to hide the fact that one mining company was robbing another and the sharp cut and decisive stand of judge marshall in the case meets with the approval and approbation of all fair minded and just mining men this is an instance where the stronger party had its nearer neighbor by the throat with one hand while with the other it was going through the pockets of its virtually unconscious victim for as a matter of fact the plaintiff in the case could only surmise that it was being robbed and an order of the court was necessary to prove the strong suspicion that blind justice has been permitted to peep over the bandage and redress a wrong is a matter of congratulation and the result will be that the plaintiff in the case after years of the hardest kind of a struggle is now in a fair way to take rank as one of the largest and best mining propositions in one of the greatest and most famous mining camps to be found on the american continent there is surely a perversion in the morals of any man or of any company who will enter upon his neighbors premises in the night as it were and stealthily purloin his goods or his ore and yet this pernicious practice is carried on in nearly every ever city and town in nearly every mining camp the only argument which can be advanced in favor of the practice and a very poor one at that being that it is all right and safe provided the theft is not discovered but the t guilt ailt the meanness the littleness of the thing remains all the same and the odium attached to the discovery is often more mord unbearable than is the reimbursement required in the payment of damages the surrender of ill gotten gain |