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Show MINING NEWS. Smith, Erics Sc Co. have nearly -Jin pic ted their five-scamp mill at Ku- . y Hill. Nevada. The San Franei.-en Alta ys that liners are now suffering greatly for , rant of water. In somo important ; actions, it is said, four cents per gallon i paid for it for that object, and in , lany others none at all is to bo had. j l few mines like the Crown Point, lelcher, Amador and the Grass 1 alley mines, which arc doiog little or -othing, will turn out over a million ier month as soon as they get water, i. great number of gravel claims, wash- ; ngs and placers will give an immense 1 iroduction when the rains shall have . j upplicd the needed agent in cxtract-ng cxtract-ng the metals. All accounts agree i hat the developed ores wero never so ibundant as this year, and 1 ST 1-72 rill show a larger product than was ivcr beforo sent to market. . An action is pending in tho U. S. listrict court for Novada between I'homas Phillpntts aud Henry G. ! .llasdell, involving the title to the lossessioh of twenty feet of tho Ward Jeeeher mino at White Pine, Nevada, i fhc caso is very complicated, and, as . ve learn from tho White Pine Heics, , vill involve several interesting quos- 1 ions of law, viz: What interest passes jy the conveyance of a mining claim? kVhat acts imply a ratification of a ransaction made by a person assuming ,o act as tho agent of Mother? and vhat constitutes an acceptance of a ' lecd ? i |