Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-10-15
NEWS OF THE MINING CAMPS
MINES OF THE NORTHWEST.
I1cms From Montana. Idaho ana
ur.shinwton-TyIer- Chance
Cause.-The Suit of the bunker mn
and SulIivnn-Mining Notes ana
General News.

Mining men and residents of the Occur
d'Alenes are keenly interested IN the
suit which has just been started at Boie
<jty by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
Mining Company against the Last Chance
company and the Empire otate-ldaho
Mining and Development Company Inc
latter is the company organized by t.
Lewis Clark and Charles Sweeney to take
over the properly of the old Last Chance
company.
Tbe,e mines are at Wardner in the
Coeur d'Alenes. The plaintiff company
owns the Stemwinder claim. and Is as
sorting that it holds, through this claim,
the apex of the great ore body OF the
defendant company.
The ease was set for hearing at Poca-
tcllo, Idaho. last week. The Bunker Hill
people asked for an injunction, which
vas refused by Judge Beatty after full
bearing.
Chance upon the same vein. The suit is
for an Injunction and an accounting. The
temporary injunction having been re-
fused. the case will now be tried upon Its
merits in its regular turn in the federal
court.
II the Bunker Hill and Sullivan people |.
are successful in their suit it will stop
one OF the largest dividend paying com
Danio, in the Occur d 'Alenes. The com
oany i, Il new one but it has been pay |
ino dividend, from the first month OF its
organization last spring The company |
includes some large capitalists in New
DIRK, where it maintains offices in the !
stokes building, ON Cedar street.
While the Last Chance is the best de-
velopel claim in the company's group, 1t
Is only one of II claims which lie either
upon the great Wardner ledge or contig
tl0us to ii.
The case is another of those tedious
one, involving extra lateral rights, and
since the contestants are both large cor
porations and able to fight long and with
it is predicted that litiga-
s ion will be long drawn out
The TyIer-Lnst Chance.
The October session of the United
States court of appeals convened at san
Francisco last week. A number of de-
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan people
claim the Last Chance ore body through
priority of location OF the Stemwindcr
claim, which adjoins the Last Chance
claim on the south. The plaintiff as
rcrts the right to follow the vein within
he planes of its end lines extended which I
would include all the ore already mined
by the Last Chance and most Of that
oh ich the newly organized Empire State !
Idaho company is mining and expects to
mine in the claims beyond the Last
cisions were handed down, and several
applications in pending suits were made.
In the ease Of the Tyler Mining COM
pany against the Last Chance Mining j
{ ompany it was ordered remanded to the
lower court and judgment for damages
modified. The companies disputed the
wight to certain lands i'll the Shoshone
mining district in Idaho and considera-
hle litigation followed in the state fed
eral and United States supreme courts.
The present action was over certain
allowed for damages to the Last
Chance Mining Company, the Tyler Com
pany having filed a bond, pending the
hearing OF an injunction suit to restrain
She Last Chance from continuing work
on the mine.
In rendering the decision Judge Beatty
SAID:
While | realize that the total assess
ments against the Tyler company in the
two actions seem large yet it must be
remembered that when the Tyler com
menyed these actions, the law of the
apex and underground rights, as announc-
ed by the supreme court, was as it stands
today and as shown by the county rec
ords the Tyler location was Junior TO the
Last Chance claim The Tyler's only
nope Of success was either to overthrow
che apparent priority of the Last Chance
location or procure a change of the views
OF the supreme court. On the contrary.
che costs and damages awarded the Last
Chance are but small portion of its
actual losses suffered through this action.
tut It's chief losses are of such nature a.
think can not be included in this taxa.
ton.
Struck Vein.
\ contract was concluded recently be.
tween the Princess Maud Company AMI .
the jim Blaine Company of Republic
camp by which the Princess Maud people .
are permitted to start a tunnel ON Jim
Blaine ground to tap the Princess Maud |
VEN, The ledge ON the Princess comes
close to the jim Blaine side line. A tun-
mel will be started on the Blaine ground
and will run 800 feet through it. Its total