The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-20
THE BIG ARGONAUT-KENN BAT
Tile FOR MOTHER LODE RICHES.

Mining men are greatly interested in the
| Argonaut-Kennedy suit, in which Judge
Nicol of the Superior Court of CalaVeras
County rendered an important decision
last week granting the Argonaut claims TO
mining ground trespaSsed on by the Ken
nedy company and giVdldmg me PIa .,niiId
of ore extracted by the kennedy com
pany.
the working of the American law OF
extralateral rights, the Kennedy lying on
the north of the Argonaut which is the
old Pioneer mine so successfully reopened
by San Francisco capitalists. The two
claims lie along the same main vein OF the
mother lode in Amador County, the
| Oneida joining the Kennedy on the north;
| The vein dips to the east at an angle OF
| about go degrees and hence soon passes
with depth beyond the side lines or the
| claims. Joining the Argonaut and Ken
| nedy claims on the east and also joining
| each other are the Argonaut and Kennedy
mill sites. The inclined vein passes I'M
der these mill sites in which open the
! shafts of the respective mines. The terri
! tory for some distance to the east 1s COW
cred with quartz claims under which the
main ledge descends, these claims cover
| ing other and minor veins. the kennedy
| and Argonaut companies, of course, may
| follow into any ground beyond their own
side lines, the vein having its apex or top
within the surface boundaries OF their
| claims but keeping within their own emo
lines projected downward.
A thouSandfeet or so east or the Ar
mine a small patented claim owned by
the Kennedy company. The inclined Ken
| nedv shaft in its great depth OF Zo0V feet
passes clear under the Silva ground,
| reaching the line of its western side at
| 1850 feet The line separating the Argo-
| naut and Pioneer patented claims passes
! when projected, through the Silva claim
! The Argonaut shaft deScendS on the in
! cline parallel to the Kennedy shaft and
but about 500 feet south of it. The Argo-
| naut shaft in following the main vein
| downward also passes under the Silva
claim. 1t is as to the right of the Ken
nedy people to cross, within the surface
| limits of their Silva claim, the projected
! line of the southern boundary of the Ken
nedy mine and to extract the ore of the
main ledge there that the big legal battle
! has arisen. The Argonaut people claim
| the right to follow their ledge under the
| Silva claim, owned by the Kennedy Com
| pany. This right would ordinarily not be
! disputed, of course, but the contention
| arises as in all other eXtralateral right
/ battles, from peculiar circumstances. The
| side lines OF the Argonaut claim are not
! parallel The projection of it's two enc
| lines would describe q wedge-shape6
| form, the divergence being about fifteer
| degrees. In following it's 1900 feet of ledge
! wherever it may lead with depth shall
| efn or It's southern end line? AS the rcf
! ore bodies worked by both companies lie
! about the northern end of the Argonaut
! and the southern end of the Kennedy
| CLAIMS, the Argonaut people naturally
| considered only their northern boundary
| me e ktenlnedy shaft being several hun
dred feet deeper than the Argonaut shaft
reached the depths below the Silva claim
when the rival shaft had not Under The
| Silva boundaries the Kennedy company
| ran drifts southwark at various levels
from 1850 to 1850 feet to the limits of its