Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-07-03
WEALTH UNDER GROUND
LAST CHANCE AND THE BUNKER
HILL AND SULLIVAN IN COURT.
Star stock in the ROsslanl
Canp-Other Mining News.

Judge Beatty has decided the adverse
case OF Royal j. Rutter and 4. W. Brad
ley vs.. the Shoshone Mining Company
involving surface ground in controversy
as portions of the Kirby and Shoshona
claims in Shoshone county. The decision
is in favor of the plaintiffs, owners of the
Kirby. Following the ledge on its dip
and working through the Last Chance
tunnel, parties connected with the Last
Chance opened up an immense body OF
ore. They located a point on the surface
Immediately over the discovery, marked
in "Shoshone discovery and laid out
the Shoshone claim. The location was in
conflict with the Kirby location and
when the Shoshone company applied for
a patent this adverse case was started.
The contest was really between the
Last Chance and the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan. The dip of the vein in the Last
Chance carries it outside the Last Chance
side lines and into the disputed ground.
This disputed ground the Last Chance
sought to hold under a mining claim
and Sullivan claimed this ground through
two claims covering substantially the
same area. The Shoshone company, own
ed by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan, ad-
versed the application. This contest is
decided in favor of the Kirby
Sale of Il Big Block of Stock.
There has been a sale of 100000 shares
of Evening Star stock and the deal is a
great thing for the Rossland camp. Mr..
Sawyer came from Toronto a couple Of
days ago with authority to act for a syn
dicate that desired to invest in the Even
ing Star development stock. The result
was deal by which the syndicate re
ceived 100000 shares of stock at price
said by well informed men to be cents
a share, OF 5000 for the lot By the
terms of the purchase a debt of about
$4,000 was paid off and about $4,000 was
put in the treasury for development of
the property. The terms agreed to, it is
said, were that the stock sold was to be
plal ed in escrow until the full amount due
was paid in, and all of the money so re-
ceived was to be invested in the develop
ulclll OF lHe EFeIlng SLdr.
Bonds and Buys.
Captain G. H. Thompson reports hav-
ing purchased 100000 shares of the Mar
tin Creek Gold and Copper Mining Com
panvs stock, in the Siiverton district in
the Cascades, in order to secure the Ar
lington claim, besides bonding the Ana
| conda group, including the Anaconda, An
aconda Extension, Flora, Maggie, Storm
Petrol and the Storm Petrol Extension
No. /.
Ledge of Onyx.
While searching for stray stock in the
canyon a short distance below Nolmer,
Idaho, the other day, George Thorp, an
American ridge farmer, discovered a ledge
Of onyx. Mr.. Thorp dug out few spe>.i-
mems and brought them into town, some
of which are now on exhibition at the
drug store. The extent of the deposit has
not vet been ascertained.
Bought a Fort Steele Group.
The Lucy Star group of gold prospects
in the east kootenay was bonded by Don
aid Mckay and John NJ. Burke recently
hese gentlemen have sold a quarter in
terest to Francis McCIelland, it is said.
for enough to lift the bond d. c. Pal
son and General Warren purchased an
eighth interest
The British Columbia Production.
The following is the British Columbia
production each year, 1890 to 1896, inclu-
sive: 1890, $2,6OS SOS; 1891, So ,546,SO2:
1892, S30l797l: 1898, S3,5SS, ABB 1894,
$4,225,9l7; 1895, $3.50, ,3O2; 1896, 81 7,l46,-
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