| Show GRATITUDE a rare dog indeed that will bite the hand which feeds him for in his dumb way he realizes that kindness should be met with gratitude but an ungrateful dog would be more excusable than an ungrateful human and there are many of the latter who show their true colors in the mining business it is so easy for the man some hundreds of miles away to frame up a deal on the fellow who is putting up the money in the city in the performance the annual assessment work there are so many ways for the owner of the ground to lose out owing to the negligence or crooked dealing of the party employed to do it often a man mall is hired to do the annual work on mining claims and is furnished the money nf in js s sary to do the same but unless close close watch is kept the man in the faraway city is apt to find himself holding the short end there have been many instances of this kind brought to our attention tenton at lately it seems to be a growing evil which ought to be checked of course the law will eventually restore property lost in this way wt ere good intentions are shown but this often necessitates expensive litigation and wasted time preventing many cases from being justly settled an example of gross ingratitude lately occurred in a nevada camp A syndicate of hardworking hard working men had been putting up for the work on a group of claims the miner who had located the ground on a grubstake was in charge of the work and failing to do the required amount left the ground open for relocation the first of the year it has transpired since that he had opened up a big thing anthe on the property covered it up and waited until the ground would be open he then had others file on the claims tor for him and has wrested the property from those jhc had put up their money in good faith A suit will probably result but it will cost coff much and the outcome is uncertain claim claims jumpers of this sort are in the same clas 1 with horse thieves and should be accorded the same punishment |
