The Mexican grant, of course, antedated
the occupation of the mine by Concho, Wiles, Pedro, et al., as well
as by the "Blue Mass Company," and the solitary partners, Biggs and
Thatcher. More than that, it swallowed up their improvements. It made
Biggs and Thatcher responsible to Garcia for all the money the Grand
Master of Avarice had made out of it. Mr. District Attorney was
apparently distressed, but resigned. Messrs. Biggs and Thatcher were
really distressed and combative.
And then, to advance a few years in this chronicle, began real
litigation with earnestness, vigor, courage, zeal, and belief on the
part of Biggs and Thatcher, and technicalities, delay, equivocation, and
a general Fabian-like policy on the part of Garcia, Roscommon, et al.
Of all these tedious processes I note but one, which for originality and
audacity of conception appears to me to indicate more clearly the temper
and civilization of the epoch. A subordinate officer of the District
Court refused to obey the mandate ordering a transcript of the record
to be sent up to the United States Supreme Court.
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