Show MINING INiNG DECISiON OF IMPORTANCE Affects Several Big Utah IT tall Cor Corporations CorI Corporations orations I 4 TUNNEL WORK APPLIES 4 t SECRETARY OF OF Op INTERIOR RE BE REVERSES VERSES V SELF The decision d cIsI n wired vi red yesterday relative to mineral entry No 26 of the Mary BeE Beh Fraction mining claim and min mimi mineral eral entry No of o the Henley Cac Cactus Cactus Cactus Ruth and the Henley Fraction mining claims by Barney B Quinn et etal etal al ul s 8 a decision of ot great importance In this section of the country as it win will give several corporations and in individuals Individuals individuals operating in the theY surrounding camp campa an opportunity to secure pat patents patents patents under conditions that have previously previously been denied them themA A large number of applications for Patent p tent to valuable mining claims have been denied on the grounds which are arenow arenow arenow now reversed in n the Quinn decision among mn mg them being the Congor Gold Copper Mining 8 Milling application for tor the American Boy Bets Bee eH Ny Nu N 1 Bee No 2 and the Buckeye John T Hod ons for the Cape Cod lode lede l de Jesse T Knights for the Maggie S ii the Silver Sliver King for tee 1 I or e hO the Mining com corn lanys for the Texas the Illinois Min Mining Mm ing for the and andAI AI Aide Allie lie and Alien lien G for the Lamson Allen ARen and Heane ne iode lo Ct The Barney B Quinn et al iii case men mentioned involved valuable mining prop property properly property erty erly which had been sold by Quinn et etal etam ni am prior to application for Cor or pat nt to the Columbia Copper Mining company of Ii i which W V S McCormick McCornick arid and J A Cunningham are the principal owners After final payment haa hac been made and the lUre eases came caine the commission ci q J of the general land office he held that the Ule of the surveyor general sene al to the expenditures on these thee i necessary ne to obtain a patent p a nt was ivas v as clearly erroneous and directed that th t h entries be beheld held for tor cancellation A motion to review r this decision was made supported by b stating that all the claims applied for were held In common and an consisted gf cC one mining claim which iVas Ins worked Corked and developed by one system m the What Cheer tunnel Its branches branchesi i nd drifts The commissioner of ot the K land pointed out that the Mary Bell Fraction was covered by mineral entry No 2686 and that no noone noone noone one of ot said claims except the Henley i is within WO feet teet of ot the nearest part of or the said What Cheer lower tunnel w hilr the distance of the Ruth J feet pt from It and under the authority of ot the Copper Coppel Glance case held that Contiguous claims held in common are the only class elMs of claims to which may be ld or apportioned Im Improvements made mude on one of them or 01 outside of them for the tha Joint benefit of ot all Claims embraced In different ent entries made at lt different nt times Ume by different parties p rt s as n is tile the t e condi condition Ion tion 1 of ot the claims shown shon in the dia din diagram diagram gram are not claims held in common commonas as contemplated ted by the said decision In Inthe Inthe inthe the Copper Glance case rase The Thc of ot one ont Intervening claim and andt the t he one on which the thc tunnel was start started started ed fd viz the What Cheer clam was patented in 18 long before the claims under consideration were located thus precluding any possibility that It I could have ha ve been held In common wih with the alms embraced I In tb s under consideration AJ I IFor For these reasons the r re review review review P view was denied dented From this decision an appeal was taken to the secretary of or tho interior who ho sustained the te commissioner und and held that the entries should tc t canceled Edwin W V Senior the attorney for at this stage stae asked for a a reconsideration of the decision Jon ion pointing out that K a large expendi tu tint f had been ben made In good faith that tha that thatto t to throw upon the applicants the addi additional additional tonal expense of ot making new applications applications WM was wa a a hardship and generally the points pint involved Involve and it ItA v A as under these that the Ue secretary of the interior w was In Induced induced induced to review revies his decision and hold hoM that the claimants were entitled to patent latent While the the text of the secre tars decision will wil not reach here her fr f r several days dY tys it i would seem sem from from the te tet telegraphic t I report that all al those who ho have previously been turned turne down wilt will wll now nov have an a opportunity to have hae their I cases RS R S reinstated |