Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-09
THE Blue BIRD SHUT DOWN.
Close Of h Mine Pending Important Liti-
gation-Mining Notes.

gation-Mining Notes.
The pending litigation between the Blue
Bird Mining company and j. A.. Murray.
ct. al. is beginning to affect a great many
others than the l~itigants themselves and
that, too, persons who can i'll afford it.
By the restraining order granted by Judge
DeWolfe, the Blue Bird company is de-
prived OF it's ore supply, as nearly all OF it's
underground workings are located in the
disputed ground. The ore which has been
reduced has all been obtained from this
ground, the company following the dip OF
the vein across it's side line and into the
ground claimed by Murray ct. al. The
ground OF the latter comprises three claims,
the Lena K, Little Darling and Darling,
adjoining the Blue Bird on the Southwest.
The vein discovered in the Blue Bird, it is
claimed, by a series Of faults is broken and
continues to dip to the southwest and into
the ground owned by Murray, ct. al, and
under the law governing the working of
mineral veins and ownership acquired by
discovery, the Blue Bird company main
tains that it has a right to 60 beyond its
side line and follow the dip and trend OF the
vein upon which it has been working, re-
CARELESS where it may lead.
For the other side it is claimed that the
ore body in the three claims owned by
Murray ct. al, is not a continuation OF the
Blue Bird vein III q separate and distinct
BODY OF ore, wholly disconnected with any
| vein or ore body which may exist in the
| latter company's ground; that the barren
| space of country rock existing between the
| Blue Birds side line and the point at
| which the ore was struck in the disputed
| ground is too great to make the argument
| OF q fault tenable. These, and probably
many more questions will all arise in the
courts when the case shall come up for
| final hearing, and judging from cases OF q
| similar nature tried in the past in almost
every court in every mining section
tious delay and expensive litigation will
certainly follow before final adjudication
shall have been arrived at. Much costly
expert testimony will, in all probability
be introduced by both sides and some
very fine points of mining law will have to
be decided aud some very knotty problems
unraveled. -.
Monday Judge DeWolie will hear testi-
mony in the petition for a permanent in
junction. Pending a final settlement the
Blue Bird company has shut down n
was cleaning up yesterday. 1t was tnougnt
last night that it's mill would be hung up
and ali work SUSPENDED until q settlement
is arrived at. About 300 men are thus
thrown out OF employment OF all kinds.
NEW MINING
The High Tariff Mining company hal
been formed in the Orc Elmo district. Its
officers are M. 8. Parker, president; Thos
Ward, secretary and treasurer; N. J,
Bielenberg, e. T.. McKinstry and A. D
D~ouqlass trustees. The capital stock il
81. 600, 600 in 500, 900 shares, at ~
Teach. The principal Office OF the company
will be at Champion. The company
property is the High Tariff mine, adloin
ing the Champion mine an the northwest
AZ forty feet the ASSAYS show sixty ounces
silver, and the pay streak is three and
half feet wide.
There was filed yesterday in the Office .
the county clerk an agreement between Il
B. Wallace, g. w. StapletOn, F. I. Nc
Bride and jeremiah Roach, parties OF tn
frst part, and T. d. Parry and E.. J. Rich
ards, parties OF the second part, whereby
the parties Of the first part are to secur'
without DELAY a patent to the Nora LODI
in Summit Valley district, and thereafter
without delay transfer ninety-four one
hundredths acres OF the claim TO tne par
ties OF the second part.
Considerable inquiry ia made for Poor
man. and the stock is unusually active
Rnvers offered 95 cents, and sellers helt
Arm at 81. The stock is to be listed on tn
az Tonis hoard.