The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-19
~BUtLIONBECK SUIT
CAUSED SENSATION
Tintic interested IN Two
Million Dollar Case.
HISTORY OF DISPUTE
EUREKA HILL CLAIMED APEX
TO VEIN.
HISTORY OF DISPUTE
Especial to The Herald3

Eureka, Utah. May 1S.-The sensa-
ton Of the week in mining circles has
been the threatened suit Of the Bullion
Beck Mining company against the Eu-
reka-Hiu and the Gemtri, and there is
a wide range OF opinion as TO the merits
OF the case.
SUPERINTENDENT MeChrystal of the
Gemini destined to say anything Tor
publication, further than that the ac-
ton oE the Bullion-Beck was a SUR
prise to him, and that the slopes ana
drifts have always been open TO InSpec-
ton. Other people, however, have been
free to declare the belief that the
Gemini was guilty of tresspass Tt is
difficult. if not impossfbl@ for anyone
TO establish the lines without the as
sistance of a surveyor, however, and
such opinion could betonly guess work.
The Gemini shaft is 200 feet deeper
than the BulTfon-Beck shaft, and there
was a large body of ore on the line be
tween the two properties on the 1,400,
which is the depth of b Beck shaft
Secretary Ritter Of the EUreka-HfI
is here, and merely smiled when ques-
tioned on the matter of the suit.
Pressed for a statement. he declared
the workings between n Eureka
Hill and Bullion-Beck were all open,
and that if any ore had been extracted
by the Eureka-Hiu on Beck ground, he
was ignorant of it.
History of Old Dispute.
Tt is more than sixteen years since
the hatchet was buried by these neigh
bors. and during that time. through
several changes in Bullfon-Beck affairs,
no complaints have been made nor OBJ
5ections urged by either of the three.
The big suit which was brought
against the Eureka-HiIl by the Bullion
Beck company, was bitterly contested,
and cost the two companies many
thousands of dollars. There We're also
some exciting encounters underground,
and not a few narrow escapes from eX-
piosions when the miners of each mine
We're working close together. The Eu-
reka-H1lt set up the contention OF Apex,
and asked TO have its title Quieted to
the Eureka lode. A Judgment was EN-
dered in its favor in The district court
and affirmed by the territorial supreme
court The BulHon-Beck appealed to
the supreme court of the United States
and while the case was before that
tribunal a compromise line was estab-
lished Between both the Eureka-Hm
and BuHiOn-Beck and the Gemini and
would consent to a compromise at that
stage, after having Won in the lower
courts, was a great surprise TO many.
An Interesting explanation IS given by
the fact that Chief Justice Field of the
supreme court was a st~OckhOldeT-in the
Eureka-HilI, and it was because of his
request that the compromise was madA
AT mat time John p. Packard owned
three-Hfths OF the Gemini and a little
more than one-haIf of the Eureka-HiH.
The control of the latter has since
passed into other hands.
eodiva Hill Lively.
Godiva Hill presents a busy aspect
these days, and is giving employment
to a small army of men. The work of
placing the machinery in the May Day
mill is rapidly nearing completion and
II is expected that.a trial run wiz be
made early in June. The mine under
ground is in excellent shape for the
rapid extraction of ore, of which there
was never q large tonnage exposed at
one time before.
At the Naukee. ueXt door the work
of lowering the tunnel floor and putting
a new track OF fourteen pound rails is
about completed The electric drills ar
rived last week, and the power com
pany IS stringing a wire while the dv-
namo is being placed in position. Work
on new ore house is we'll under
way andathe wagon road is more than
hat completed. Within ten DAYS the
long tunnel should be in shape for the
transportation Of ore, Of which the
ninety foot chute inside is full with
" big slopes TO draw from. BY June
1 the Outpu will he very materially IN
creased.