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Show TELEGRAPHIC JUIMXG DECISION, Again a 31 un May Follow Ills Veiu. New York, 25. Tho Fast, this evening, comments on the decision in Denver, en the '2'6d, by Judge Hallet, United States district court, in tbe controversy between the Leadville Mining Company, of this state, and the owners ol ibe Little Giant mine, on one hand, and the xEtna mine on the oiber. It says the importance of this deciiion can scarcely be overestimated. over-estimated. It is undoubted law, and this ia not tbe first time it has been applied even in Colorado. It secures ths rights of the firat diicoverer of a ledge of mineral and even will wipe out the Burface line which tho discoverer dis-coverer is entitled to establish, bo bo that a mine hereafter is to be measured by the extent of tbe vein, in whatever direction it may take, and not by the extent of the surface line which has been preempted or occupied. occu-pied. The purchasers in New York of mining property cannot therefore be too careful, for not only is it essential essen-tial for them to ascertain that the vendor has title to the eurface, but thai the vein beneath is not one which owners of other property have a right to follow. |