| Show MINING litigations nothing is perhaps as discouraging to the prospector as to have his claim covered with injunctions suits for dam apes trespass and other complaints from opposing birties months and perhaps ears are consumed by haid and patient toil to develops his cioper ty and make it marketable he may succeed in a few months labor to male his prospect valuable and should he be so fortanato as to uncover rich deposits he must biose bis tunnel or shaft with bolts and bars until he has secured his patent for his own safety he must assume an arbitrary position and permit no person to enter his underground workings woi kings in a word he is forced 0 o act and feel as though ho was thief skulk back and forth to avoid litiza eions brought about by the so called blackmailers the dog in the manger fineis some frequently make their locations so that they will conflict with older claims or swing their stakes to take in more of the ledge or to make their claim harmon ize with the dip and course of the vein regardless of the rights and privileges of anor locators the outcome of such a proceeding naturally bunas on expansive and lengthy law suits and the property lies idle for months and years the camp receives a set back and the only parties are the lawyers who see in mining controversies large fees and rewards but this gibat drawback to mining industry is not confined to an one camp in tombstone arizona law suits have been instituted by some ot the leading mining companies of that district in which many lalu ablo mines have bacomo involved aifong them we notice that the tranquility is suing the head centre for ore alleged to have been extracted by the latter on the dip of the vein outside of their side line on the foot level of the head centre another is that of the way up mining company against tho tombstone mill and minine company owning the goodenough mino to quit title the plain tiff also claims damages these valuable well as many other cases we might mention compel them to shut down until the slow pieces of law settles the impending disputes this is the history of all mining camps blackmailers and swindlers lers infest them everywhere they preying upon honest industry and toil for their livelihood to nd tho countey of them is an impossibility and so the prospector must continue to work in the dark until ho has secured a government title to his property because of litigations many are pronounced dead for a time they appear so but the mm eral deposits that first cave life to the camp are still there but tied up in lawsuits developments cannot progress ore shipments cease business is moie or less injured and the town filled with idle men awaiting the suspension of hostilities whether common sense will avei induce men to quit intruding upon the rights of others is a mere peculation certain wo aro of one thing and that is that lawyers and courts wealth at he expense of the dionest miner |
