Show A MENACE TO PROGRESS word has boon been circulated latel lately from the now new gold camp at fortuna that the timo honored lionor zd practice of trying to get feet something for nothing is already in vogue there having waitea for t the lie real owners to demonstrate tha value of proper ties certain other individuals are alleg ded to have jumped these claims claim s on trumped up technicalities it is presumed they hope to make moi irot oy cy by blocking a don deal that has been pending on the properties it in question it is if one of tile evils of the mining game that such fluch practices af tins this do start but of course it has been hoped that thi chiq i camp could ward them off as ong long as possible however it inevitable that the richness of mining ground being once proven there ar tiny number of men who will depart from the way of square deal inn to gain an unfair advantage and who will resort to every i n dorlind artifice to take tint thit which belongs to others it it is to be regretted that the many technicalities of our mining laws grive give those these buccaneers bucca of industrial progress opportunity ti t ply ily their vicious trade given tile the lesire to acquire something at a any cost coat coupled w th a total disregard of tho the principles of fail dealing mst mast any ally min can call find a in our location laws 0 ci which to hang ham a claim to others an ground ho he can become perniciously active to such an extent as to tie tic up many deals development and throw a whole camp into litigation instances ol 01 this are many but tile the cases are rare where such an has eventually profited to any extent through such a courso course ol oi action it lias has been noti noticeable cable in the history of mining that the industry of claim jumping lias has flourished leso in those comm unitie aher law was of tho the primitive order they have a way of dealing ivita claim jumpers in the pioneer camp that is both sti salutary lutary and col coi vincina vin cing when the courts and the lawyers step in then its hell tv lu pay and no commins onse pitch hot technical faults in I 1 c cot a J on spring up tip as if by magic and the unscrupulous bird of ure re who seeks to fatten on the elloita of the locator dimmed neely runs to the courts knowing that he can lead his victim int a denge danse forest of legal verbiage from which only god ad and blin belinc instinct can extricate him through the months of liti gaton ir austry and development dove deve loment languish and a whole lot of district an country suf suffer for finally busted and the unwilling litigant may eventually triumph but lie he is lucky hicky if ho he retains 1 grubstake ako lot alone money to develop his hie dearly bought property for the ot of tho the new gulf oai e ial of beaver county juat rov about to embark on a thriving period of development it is a to h hf ardently hope 1 that tile the deadly epidemic of claim jumping me meet I 1 a prompt and of reci tive disinfectant in the thoughtful ct can c conflation tym lation of tile the very doubtful doubt fiji gains to be finally won in th game of claim jumping it ii to lie he devoutly devout lv wished that thos ho have 11 arm ua far teen lit at fault avi will teco reconsider csider thier action ani an repudiate a step that would work greean injury of tho the camp for a trifling personal advantage |