The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-11-27


q. q. M, Hartford, COMMIT is gen.
orally said that the apex laws pertain
ing to the following of a vein vary in
different states Of the Union This Is
hardly a fact; it is safer to say that
they have not been tried out in the
courts of all the states, and that, there
fore. some doubts exist as to the results
in other states. The apex laws apper-
tanning to California, Montana, Arizona
and some of the other states of the
Union, generally grant that when the
apex crops out on n man property,
he may follow the vein down even IT
it passes out of his side lines into an
other man s property; this pertains on
ly to the side lines and not to the
length of the vein, and it was on the
construction of this law in the Mon
tana courts hat Augustus Heinze
mulcted the Amalgamated out Of fifty
five million dollars. Notwithstanding
this decision so far rendered in various
states, there are radical differences of
opinion as to what the results will be in
other states, and it is a good thing to
take advice from local lawyers OF the
state in which you are operating. Gold
field so far has had no apex suits. There
is a matter of interest in this connec-
ton to be considered in the fact that
the United States government, in grant
ing patent rights practically comedies
that one can follow the vein Of the
apex, because in its deed, the govern
ment does not defend the right of oper-
alton of veins from adjoining proper
ties.
w. L., venea, HIT is our under
standing that nothing is being done On
the Queen Regent property near Raw.
hide, though the title to the property
will doubtless be protected by the an
nual assessment work. We can hear
nothing from the management, although
we have written for information.
e. L., New Haven, Conn.-We do not
quite understand by what operation the
stock Of which you speak became las
sessable,' when it was originally sold
as ssnon-assessable.' But that is
neither here nor there. If the COM
pany is out of funds and has no other
way of raising funds and the purposes
of the management are honest, we
would suggest that you pay your as
sessment, for the ground being worked
by the company is good and further
development should be prosecuted. We
are of the belief that it is a ''square
deal'' with no desire to '.freeze out =
anyone.
H. e. r., Milwaukee.-The lease has
not been abandoned nor will it be if
any possible means can be utilized for
raising the necessary money. There is
no intention of abandoning it, we I'M
derstand, although that a r~eorganiza-
ton of the company is possible, in
which event stockholders will be pro-
tected and the lease be put upon a bet
ter basis.
Frospector-The samples sent us are
not sufficient to enable us to give you
the information you wish. 1t is pos
sible that you have coal but not likely
as the general geological conditions are
against it. Coal when it outcrops on
the surface is hardly recognizable as
such, being usually a mere brown stain
looking like common black earth, pea.
or soil. This oxidized surface coal is
Of no value to burn, nor is it fit for g
sample for analysis, being highly charg-
ed with water, sand and other impuri-
ties, and low in fixed carbon. Coal
suitable for analysis, or marketable,
may not be found until the seam has
been penetrated so feet or more below
the surface. It is of little use to cx-
pect that a coal seam appearing small
at the surface will materially increase
in size with depth, or that two small
seams on the surface separated by
sandstone will in depth unite and form
one big seam. Or that a thick seam Of
"bone' or shale in a Goa seam will
IN depth or at a short distance within
the mine play out and leave the coal
seam pure. Sandstone showing impress.
sions of fossil leaves, or thin seams Of
Ignite, are good signs of coal seam to
be of workable size and value must be
upwards of five feet thick, although
very valuable coal, such as "anthra
cite,' may be worth working in a
smaller thickness.
J. w. g., Rhyolite.-The Goldfeld
Mining and Ore Reduction company has
a lease in the Goldfeld district, well
located, upon which a large amount of
work has been done and which is now
under operation. Recently the leasehold
WAS dOuhlQd Inv tho aonooao;or - a