Show SAYS BIG SUIT IS WITHOUT GROUNDS Access to Columbus Could Be I Gained Any Time De Declares dares clares Manager That the workings which have caused In the property of Hugo at Alta are old work workings Ings constructed by either present or former owners ot of the Frederick Crown Prince and Dawes claims and not the tunnel ar drifts of the Columbus Con Consolidated Consolidated company or the Columbia Extension company Is the belief bellet ot of otTony Tony Jacobson general manager ot of the Columbus companies who declared yesterday esterday that to his positive knowl knowledge knowledge edge there could be no grounds for the suit for damages which has been brought against him and his companies I know from actual surveys made by our engineers said Mr Jacobson yesterday that no workings of the Columbus companies are within 2500 feet of the place where declares wo we Have broken Into his workings With nc na workings within that dis distance distance tance from his ground It is of course Impossible that we could have taken an any ore from It The bringing of the suit was a corn com completo pleto surprise to me I have no Idea what the motive could have been I had no Intimation that it Was con contemplated or that there was suspicion that we had Invaded the round ground It would have been wholly to have gone Into COUI L to ascertain whether that Is true There has been no time when the privIlege liege ot of making an underground sur survey survey vey of the Columbus workings would not nat have been granted upon the applicant cant giving assurance that the corn com companies panics would be for the actual loss of time by our forces which It might entail That would not be bea a large sum necessarily and It would be exacted only as a protection against triflers The privilege Is open today as It has been at an any time In the past |