The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-28

past few months was closed last week
by the H. Fletcher Company, who sold
for the Davis brothers to A. H. Butler
or San Francisco the seven claims ad-
joining the Red Rock, Denver and the
Mckane & Schwab properties for a
consideration of $50, 600. Mr.. Butler, the
purchaser, is well-known capitalist of
San Francisco and is president of the
Dabney Oil Company and the Califor-
mia and Oriental Steamship Company,
and is also well known in mining and
financial circles on the coast. A new
company will shortly be Incorporated
to be known as the West Tonopah Min
ing Company, with a capital of 81 ,000,-
900, and active development of the
mines will be pushed. The present work
on the claims consists of a sixty-foot
shaft. and from this float assaying from
$50 to $1,000 per ton has been taken.
The general impression of the camp is
that these claims are among the best in
Tonopah, and lying as they do in the
highly mineralized defined zone they
should prove large producers. While
the company's plans are not yet def
nitely determined, it has been prac-
tically decided that development will
be on large scale and that the most
modern machinery will be introduced
in working the mine.
IMPORTANT DECISION.
The United States Supreme Court has
just handed down a decision that is of
great Importance to miners and mine
owners and will possibly forever settle
question that has long been open
and one that has brought about many
lawsuits.
The Federal court decides that the
owner of q mine cannot run a tunnel
through an adjoining mine to reach
his own property without the consent
Of the owners of the adjoining claim.
This case was taken uD from Mon
tana to the Supreme Court. 1t was the
suit of the st. Louis Mining and Mill
ing Company against the Montana
Mining Company.
The decision affirms the opinion OF
the Circuit Court of Appeals and makes
it plain that company cannot work
its own property through the claim of
another without it's consent.
In many instances this is being done
A company owning large property de-
velops that property through a tunnel
started on the claim of another adj
joining the companys mine. There
have been many lawsuits as a result,
but now that the case has finally been
decided there may be an end to the
trouble in that direction.
The Angels Echo says that work is
going on in the famous old Utica
mine. That journal continues: Super
intendent Shinn had doubts as to the
mine being worked out, and to satisfy
himself he caused a drift to be run
from level 2 of the South Sickle mine
to and beneath the Utica underground
works
Here, at point 200 feet below the
shaft. the lode of the Utica has again
been discovered, being over thirty feet
in width and tending to increase in
width as it descends into the earth.
The ore is of the same character as
that found in the upper levels of the
old works and is equally valuable.
''The discovery demonstrates the
fact that the Utica is far from being
worked out and that it is as good a
mine as II. ever has been in the past.
owing to the bad condition of the
ground the Utica lode will be mined
by way of the lower levels of the
South Sickle, from which point the
discovery drift has been rum"
1t is reported that the RIuestona con-