california the fightner Tight ner group of quartz claims at alleghany allegheny Alleg hany has been option ed to fred searls and a company has been formed to work the group the property is equipped with an electrically driven plant and in the past has paid enormously two of the old gold gravel properties of the placerville erville district the old Ta ginni now known as as the ventura deep gravel mine and the pacific deep gravel mine formerly owned by james H zimmerman are being rehabilitated and active development work on the properties is now going on A has recently been reached in the suit brought by the original sixteen toone to one company operating in the alle aghany district against the twenty one mining company in which the first named corporation po ration was awarded a verdict for the suit grew out of litigation over the apex rights to their holdings frank M smith president of the west wesl end mining company and more familiarly known as borax smith after litigation covering many years has been awarded a decision by the federal court of los angeles by which he and his associates are given title to the famous borax deposits of death valley the failure of smith to file a legal location notice and to do the annual assessment work on the properties was the cause of a relocation location re by the parties bringing the suit