THE atEDFORD 3VIAIL TRIBUNE, MEDlruflD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MA.ROH 8, 1910.
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GIVE THEIR SIDE
Noted Fight Between Miners and
timber Men Is Reviewed by Min
ing Hen Denounce Eddy's Decis
ion as Unfair.
To the Editor;
Wc have hhd so many inquiries
from nrosncetors and miners of
Jnckson, Joscphino and Siskiyou
counties about .or cases, Buck & Sul
. livan vs. Smith and Buck & Sullivan
vs. -McKonnn, involving timber and
mineral claims, and the cases having
aused such widespread attention
throuRhout Southern Oregon and
Northern California, that we would
leg Space in your valuable paper to
present the facts of our enscs to the
interested public.
Theso cases are the outcome- of the
location of timber entries on the
south half of section 6, township 41
south, range 3 west, upon which wo
bad sir mining clnims located at the
time. At our hearing before Com
missioner Briggs at Ashlaud we in
troduced sufficient evidence to con--vince
any fair-minded man that wo
had valid mining claims, according
to the United States minln" laws, on
the locution of quartz mining claims,
In nrViioh iho onlv remrirement'oxnet-
. i i 1 j... I
en oi a locator is mm ue uiusi u.c
mineral bearing ledge in place. In
our testimony we showed that we
had complied with all the laws, lo
cal and government, in regard to lo--cating,
staking "and required assess
ment work.
According to the law governing
limber locations, an applicant must
swear to a non-tnincrni affidavit
and that there are no adverse claira-
ants upon tho tract Now, upon ono
af these quarter sections in question i
ire showed two well-defined Gosson-
capped ledges in place from 30 to 50
feet in width, and with a strong out-1
crop across nlmost the entire tract
upon which wo had located four
claims, one of which, the John L.,
lind been located four years, on
which were- threo tunnels, totaling
about 1$ feet of work, and three hnd
"been located about three months at
the time of the timber entry. Upon
-each was a freshly posted notice
and a 4x12x6 discovery cut, required
by Oregon state law, and six square
stakes, four feet high, making a to
tal of 24 stakes and seven open cnts
and tunnes with center lines blazed
through entire length of claims.
Now, the law requires the timber
applicants to thoroughly examine the i
UCK
SULLIVAN
land before making application. With
all this evidence upon the surface,
would it seem possible that a party
of men could thoroughly examine
this land and not know that it was
mineral land, and that there were ad--verse
claimants upon it T
We herewith give a copy of the
decision rendered by Mr. Eddy of
the local land office, involving the
-claims above mentioned:
"The testimony shows that there
lias been some prospecting for min
eral upon the land, and some small
excavations have been made, but
there is nothing in evidence to show
the discovery of valuable minerals.
A considerable portion of the testi
mony relative to the mineral discov
ered on other premises and on behalf
o protestants, the theory is ndynnc
ed .that the surface indications are
the same on this land, and therefore
, -they, expect tb find mineral by fnr
"ther explodation. Even exhibit of
ore introduced in the case comes
from other lands and not from the
'land in controversy. It is claimed
thnt the land in controversy bears
the same mineral belt on which are
situated valuablo deposits of mineral
at other points. It is admitted, how
over, that there is not a paying mine
on tho alleged mineral belt. The tes
timony shows that tho land is valu
able for its timber and is unques
tionably of the character which is
intended to be entered under the tim
ber and stone act. Wo are therefore
of the opinion that the protest ought
to uo dismissed."
This decision as it stands is an in
suit to our lawmakers and the prac
ticnl miners and prospectors of the
country, and retards tho development
of the mineral resources of the whole
United States, innsmuch as it annuls
our congressional mining laws nnd
practically invalidates every pros
pect in tne country that is not on a
paying basis, while ns yet we had
shown no ore on tho ledges in nues
tion, we produced evidence showing
that theso great bodies of gosson
were nt ono time bodies of sulphide
eopper ore, which has been leached
to unknown dopths. By tho intro
duction as evidonco, samples of sul
phide copper ores nnd the gosson
oppjng thereof from adjoining
ledges in this belt, as mentioned in
the deoision, Bhowing tho surface to
fee identically the same, and thus
practically proved by this and other
testimonv wherever the goson and
leached surface copping had been
penetrated, as in tho Blue Lodge and
mnny othor places in this belt, that
our labors had been rewarded by
finding sulphide ores of good copper
values. Now, with all of this and
much other evidence of n practical
nature, which space will not permit
us to submit, it is a mystery to the
miners of this section just what in
fluence caused Mr. Eddy to como to
tho conclusion that we were working
upon a "theory" that the claims in
quostioh had the same surface indi
cations as other claims in this bait.
and thnt tho Bluo Ledge ooiror heit
is au "alleged" mineral bolt." Within
the past year, and since tho date of
Mr. Eddy's infamous decision, wo
have discovered upon the Great Eas
teni, and are at the present time de
veloping an ore body more than 30
feet in width, showing good copper
and gold values, samples of winch
may bo seen in tho Exhibit building
nt aiedford. This claim is located
on the samo ledge and in the same
section, one-quarter mile north of
the John L. claim of tho contested
gronpl We have held this claim since
1002, and the discovery is tho result
of seven years of practical experi
ence and intelligent prospecting. This
ore was found under identically the
same surface indications ns the
claims Appropriated by tho timber
locators, and nails Mr. Eddy to the
cross' wherein he accuses us of work
ing upon "theories" and "alleged
mineral indications."
In tho decision of tho general land
office. Washington, D. C, in affirm
ing Mr. Eddy's decision, it sny3:
"At the hearinir several witnesses
testified for the protestnnts to the
effect that two ontcroppings of gos
san were found in the land in ques
tion, both of which were covered hv
locations owned by protestants; thnt
the said outcrops were traced across
this land for a distance of half a
mile or more to the north in each
case', and that good showings of cop
per and gold were found on two cor-
tain groups of claims at the points
indicated to the north. Further, that
the land in question is in a mineral
belt extendimr all the way from sec-
tion 4 of this township and range
across sections 5 and 6. It was ad
mitted by these claimants that no
paying mines were in operation in
any of this mineral belt, although
pay ore had been found in some
places, and it was contended thnt the
reason that tho paying mines had not
been developed was because of lack
of transportation facilities."
Tho prospectors and miners are
not, as a general rule, millionaires
Eden Valley Orchard
John D.
EXHIBIT BUILDING
consequently he cannot build a smel
ter to treat his ore. Then must he
lose his years of hard work and his
mines by a ruling of the interior de
partment f There is nothing in tho
congressional mining laws that will
sustain tho decisions handed down
by tho interior department.
Tho Bluo Lcdgo miuo, in this samo
mineral belt, has boon under devel
opment about ton years. They have
millions of dollars' worth of ore in
sight, but it is not a paying mine, And
will not bo until thoy build a smelter
to treat tho ore. If tho Blue Ledge
was not on the forest reserve it could
bo located nud hold by tho titubor
applicants on the ground that it is
not a paying mine.
"He further says," wituossos tes
tified for tho protestnnts, "that on
tho easterly portion of tho southwest
quarter of section 6 there was an
outcrop of gosson extending across
the quarter section, nnd that it could
be traced u distance of about n mile
leading in n southwest direction to a
point whoro a good showing of gold
and copper has been developed, nud
s being worked on tho sarao indica
tions as thoso found on this tract."
"Tho witnesses for tho timbor
claimants, while admitting that there
is au outcropping of iron stained
rock, state that this is not an indi
cation of mineral thnt would warrant
development; that it s but tho com
mon county rook of tho region, nnd
that it is not usual to dovclop tho
ore bodies from such surface indica
tions in thnt locality."
We havo in this Bluo Ledso copper
belt developed good coppor ore in nt
least a dozen different places on our
claims underneath this samo "com
mon country iron-stained rock." The
surface indications of tho Bluo
Ledge, tho Copper King, Bloomfiold,
Cook & Green, Euolid, Sullivan
group, First National, Ilctchel mine,
Now Albins, Spotted Horse, Iron
ITand, Gold Bar, Great Eastern,
Blue Ledge extension, New London,
Sugar Pino and scores of othor
mines wo could mention in this belt,
where copper ore has been developed
under this worthless "iron-stnincd
common country rock." What does:
tho timber shark know about tho in-
dicntions that lead to ore in this1
belt? But it seems thnt the interior i
department takes their word in pref
erence to men who make a business
of prospecting nnd mining nnd who'
have developed ore under tho idonti-l
cal surface indications that is men
tioned in tho above decision. Is this
confiscation of tho miner's rights
nnd property T This is the question
staring ns in tho face as wc read tho.
is sub-divided in tracts from 30 to 100 acres.
This is some of the . finest land in the Rogue
River Valley, within two miles of the city of
Medf ord. The trees are of the best varities of
apples"and pears, all in bearing at the present
time.iTheage of the trees run from six to
twenty years. We are able to supply people with
whatever they may desire in the best bearing
orchards in ifte valley, near the city of Medf ord
-1 : fpor fuu particulars call on
decisions of the interior department
officials in every part of tho coun
try, which are almost unnnlmously in
favor of tho timbor men and ngniiwt
the minor. But when wo oon.iitlor Hint
tho department officials nro quali
fied to interpret all tho points of our
laws nnd to intelligently weigh tho
testimony, and such evidence as
above given is case aside by thorn as
having no weight, and our good Inws
under which wo locnto and work our
claims, ovory not of which wo havo
complied with, nro brushed aside by
a decision thnt is an insult to ait
intelligent pcopde. When wo calmly
consider nil of tho nbovo points and
seo titubor locators nnd aruisorH go
upon tho stand and commit them
selves to rank perjury without fear
hnd when orui"ora toll our neighbors
that wu nro throwing away our la
bors; that we will lose all our claims
and that it is useless for us to tnnko
a fight; when wo consider tho above
points and mnny more which nro
forced upon us, wo can como to no
othor conclusion than thnt tho tim
bor barons are in collusion with the
interior department officials in an
effort to got control of nil tho avail
able government land, regardless of
its character, and that tho interior
department is rotton from bend to
foot, and wo boliovo that wo voioo
tho sentiment of tho whole people
when we contend that tho only way
to purify it is not by n doublo coat
of whitewash, but by nn honest in
vestigation and by kicking out tho
polluted officials.
When we carried our appeal up to
Washington wo wroto Senator
Bourne, Senator Chamborlnin, also
Representative Hawloy, and begged
them ns an act of justice to uso thoir
iufluenco to sco that our mining
laws were uphold, nnd Mr. Hawloy
was tho only ono who responded, ne
assured us that ho was doing nil ho
could for us. To sit holplossly by
and sco onr favorite pronpects stolen
and our work confiscated nnd our
cherished hopes wrecked by n thiov
ing gang of timber sharks makes us
sick nt heart with discouragemont.
But wo must prepare ourselves for
DRIVERS: that know the country
SllS-that cover the country
QUICKLV AND WITH COMk MIT
FOO.NI A
PARLOW & DOWM.VG, mOMUETOnS.
. WEST SIDE STABLES
PnO.VE 2431 8. QltAPIS STItHKT
Olwell
tho inevitable tho proppoutor nut it
Wo would liko to havo all nowspu
pers interested' In tho mineral to
souroos of tho country to plouso
copy. Wo would liko for all pron
pectors and minors who hnvo hnd
trouble with timbor locators to write
us tho facts of their cases.
BUCK & SULLIVAN,
Watklns, Or.
S. P. Hotel at Pelican Bay.
(Ivkatuutu Exnrow.)
Tito Southern I'nclfln will erect
a Biuniuor resort hotol thin sontton
contlnj; between' $20,000 nnd $30,000
on Ilnrrlmnn'H Pelican bay property.
Tho hotel will ho located on tho hill
sldo Just cast ot Pelican lodge, tho
country homo ot tho Into 10. II, Ilnrrt
mnn.
It la expected to hnvo tho hotol
finished) by October I next nud to
hnvo It rendy tor thu Hcnnon of 1011.
Thla move Indicates thnt tho
Southorn J'nclflc contpnny rocoiinUos'
tho ICInntnth country as tho equal of
Snntn Crtize nnd Montoroy an a tour-1
lata' roaort and It will undnulitly
In ttmo hnvo a tint) hotel there ih
It hns at Del Monto.
Dtiko Does Not Belong Hero.
Who Is tho "Duko" tho Sacramen
to 13co Bays thnt hnlls trout Mod
ford nnd nMojea that ho Is a ball
plnyort Tho only "Diiko 'that we
over hnd' hero wns "I)nro Dovll Duko"i
and he wns too strong to work hnrd )
enough to try out an n ball player.
That ball playor hnu evidently boon
using tho nn mo ot Modford In vain.)
Medtord, Oregon Thin cortlflon
that wo havo sold Hall's Texas Won
der for tho euro of all kldnoy, blad
der nnd rheumatic troubles far ton
ream, nnd hnvo noror hnd a cotn-j
plaint. It Rives quick nnd porman'onti
rollof. Sixty days' treatment In ouch
bottlo. Medtord Phnrmacy.
Writo it an though it wuro a telo-j
gram and it will mnko n good want 1
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