The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-27
MOHAWK SUIT
TAKES On MANY ANGLES

The big legal battle between the
Goldfeld Mohawk Mining company
and the Frances Mohawk Mining and
Leasing company, which was pending
for two years, has been in progress in
the district court, before Judge Theron
Stevens, for one week, at which time
there is no signs of the plaintiff in the
case closing its testimony. The suit in
wolves claims for damages t the ex-
tent of 1925, 000, which the Goldfeld
Mohawk claims is the extent to which
its property has been injured by the
alleged unminerlike manner in which
the working of the lease was conducted.
Since the advent of the trial of the
case, the Franees-M Mohawk company has
entered suit against the Goldfield Mo
hawk for an accounting of ore alleged
to have been stolen from the lease, and
which is alleged to be in the neighbor-
hood of a value of $500, 600, and which
it is said was recovered mt various
times by the Goldfield Mohawk. A suit
for 100000 damages has been fled
ais by d. Mackenzie against the Gold
field Mohawk, alleging that he has suf-
fered injury to his business in that
amount by the tying up of the funds
of til. ID. Mackenzie & Co., as co-defend-
ant with the Frances-M Mohawk. A third
suit has been fled by the Goldfeld
Jupiter Mining company, a property
owned by ID. Mackenzie, asking an in
junction against the Goldfeld Consoli-
dated, restraining that company from
allowing the shines of the big CONSOLE
dated mill to be discharged upon the
ground of the Jupiter, alleging that it
is injuring the property.
Battle Of Brains.
The fight is being conducted by some
of the brightest attorneys in the oar
try. j. p. O'Brien, formerly district
Judge of Nye county, and w. II. Bry-
ant are conducting the case for the
plaintiff, while o. w. Powers, the win
ner of the famous Bradley murder trial,
his partner, Thomas M%arioneaux, both
of Salt Lake, and Frank j. Hangs, of
Goldfeld, are conducting the ease for
the Frances Mohawk.
A fight was made upon the securing
of a jury, the Goldfield Mohawk seem
ing to dislike admitting any members
of the Western Federation of Miners to
be upon it. With the beginning of the
evidence, the Goldfeld Mohawk PLACED
a number of witnesses on the stand to
testify in regard to alleged unminer,
like work, and the injury sustained by
the plaintiff thereby. j.. w. Finch,
formerly general manager for the Con
solidated stated that in his opinion,
26, 1000 tons of ore are buried as a result
of cave-ins, and that it already has cost
the plaintiff company $21,10O to get at
the eaved-in ore bodies, and that it will
cost $4,000 more before the ore is ex-
tracted.
DEFENSE SHOWS danu.
The attorneys for the Frances-Mo-
hawk showed what may be one of their
plans of defense during the cross-ex-
animation of a witness, when an argu
ment upon an objection was heard. AT
torney Marioneaux satted that at the
time of the caves in the property, cave
were also occurring in adjoining ground,
and that this was the result of a grad
ual settling of the ground which could
not have been avoided by the best tim
bering and work.
One of the features of the case is a
perfect model of the Frances-Mohawk
lease, showing the underground work
ings of the mine, and a map which
shows the amount of the ground which
is alleged to have caved.