The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-05-25

their positions travelling over the road
between the National mine and the
nearest railway station, Wlnnemucca
20 miles to the south Under the
present efficient management of Perry
Harrison, the men are required &c
leave their mining clothes at the mine
changing in a dry" under the eye Of
lwatchmen and passing their garments
through a locker to an attendant, who
searches them as well as the lunch
buckets. The loss by theft is conse.
quently much reduced.
During the first year after acquir.
ing control of the property 1t appears
to have been the policy of the Chica-
go owners to work 1t through leases
The Stalls were given a second lease
for year upon April 9, 1910, and sew
eral other extension leases were given
and shafts sunk at various points up
on the vein and In its vicinity. On
April Z, 1910 both of the Stalls were
injured in the shaft by eaying ground
They remained in tent at the mine
until August IL and then went to their
home in Marysville, Calf. Feeling
themselves unable to look after their
lease, and knowing that ore was con-
stantly being stolen, they surrendered
possession to the National company
on September l, 1910. The considera-
| ton for this surrender Is not known
to the writer, but 1t is generally be-
lieyed to have amounted to perhaps
so per cent of the royalty they had
already paid the company for ore ex-
tracted The National company also
agreed to put through their mill the
second class ore which had been TAX
en- out by the Stalls and which was
in the stock pile at the mine. This
ore was milled during the summer of
1912 and netted the owners something
over $150,000. The other lessees fail
ed to discover ore of the same high
grade in the National vein.
Any estimate as to the total pro-
duction of the National mine since
February, 1909, is necessarily only an
approximation. The records show a
yield of about $4,000000, to which
should be added the amount stolen by
high graders. The Stalls cleaned up
more than $1,000,O00 in their short
connection with the property, thus
presenting an example of the fact that
golden dreams of bonanza discoveries
sometimes come true.
When he gave an option, as already
described, to Pelton, Workman re-
tanned several adjoining claims which
he thought were possibly as valuable
as those he had sold. He organized
two other mining companies to take
over these claims and disposed of
considerable amount of stock. There
was also large amount of develop
ment work in the nature of tunnels
and drifts performed upon the prop
critics which lie to the west of the Ma
tional but no other veins of any con-
sequence We're discovered. The Ma
tional ore shoot has a length of about
400 feet and rakes or pitches in the
vein to the south. Mining the vein
upon its dip the National company at
the depth of the fifth tunnel came to
their western side line and extended
their workings beneath the property
of their neighbors on the west. An
apex case was thereby precipitated
which resulted in lively contest In
the federal court. The National Mines
company as plaintiff claimed a discov-
cry vein which passed through both
end lines of their West Virginia claim,
and upon it's descent into the earth
entered beneath the surface of the
West Virginia No. l and the Charles
ton No. of the defendant Charles
ton Hill and Mammoth companies.
This allegation was denied by the de-
PENDANTS, who simply asserted their
common law title to the territory in
question, and their priori right to any,
thing found therein. At the trial of
TIC case however, aIIeF the DfeSenta-
ton of the plaintiffs testimony, the
defendants sprung surprise in the
nature of a fault theory, which If es-
tablished would cut off the extra lat.
eral rights of the National company
where their vein passes out of their
ground, and give the valuable part of
the ore shoot to the defendants. Tes-
timony was presented for five weeks
before Judge Harrington at Carson
City and advantage was taken by him
at the invitation of both litigants, of
an opportunity to visit the mine, |
where he spent several days in under
ground examination. His verdict sus-
tanned the contention of the National |
Mine company, giving them title to
The vein.
Then developed still another unusu-
ii and interesting situation. Under
he laws Of the United States the own
er of vein properly located has the