Show SUIT Pending Suit Pea Fea Features Fea Features tures three Attending Former Pornier Litigation The most sensational mine litigation In n the history of Tintic district has been recalled by bJ the pending suits be tween the Eureka Hill HUl Champion and Gemini Mining I companies for damages for ore re ex in violation of the famous compromise line Une 1 The Ohe contest re to occurred nearly twenty years yeara I ago It occupied the attention of the territorial courts for many m ny months experts were brought from all parts of ot the world as witnesses for the con and money was poured po red forth like water by these immensely wealthy corporations then in the heyday of ot their youth The action was brought by the Eu reka Hill HUl Mining company which claimed the right to follow its ore on the dip Into territory The plaintiff won on every appeal and while the action was pending in the supreme court of the United States a compromise was effected and a vertical line established between both the Eu reka Hill Hm and on oil the south and the Gemini and Bullion Beck on the north That the Eureka Hill should consent to a compromise when It had all aU the best of the points at Jt t issue i was a a source of at considerable surprise to t the public and has never been satisfactorily ex ax explained p One reason which has since been given was was that Chief ChI t Justice Field of ot the United States supreme court was a stockholder In the Eureka a Hill Mining company and wishing to relieve his colleagues ot of any embar embarrassment embarrassment in deciding the case urged and secured the compromise However the more reasonable ex cx explanation which Is borne bonie out by sub flub subsequent sequent events is that John Q Pack Packard P Packard ck ard who ho owned the majority of Eu Eureka Eureka u ureka reka Hill stock sock s ock and of the Gemini mine discovered unmistakable I evidence that while the ore fissure dipped to the west from the Eureka Hill Into the on the south smith southend southend end it turned over at It greater depth on the boundary line between b tween the Bul l and arid the Gemini l mines and that the advantage gained by winning wIm ing the ithe Eureka Hill suit be that offset by the loss of the tremendous tremendous n dous ore bodies which he believed ex cx isted In the Gemini Mr Packard had bud hadnot h budnot d not yet developed develop d the philanthropic plc Carnegie spirit that has since ince prompted his gift to the city of Salt Lake hence he sacrificed the penny to gaIn sain ain the pound The present contention between the companies is over the ore extracted on the sides of ot this compromise line which in some places extends through large and rich and in other places pl ces through the limestone For about feet vertically the line be between between tween the th Beck and the Gemini was wa in inore Inore I ore but on oil the t level it dipped out of the Beck entirely into the Gem Gemini Gemin ini in as foreseen forese n by Mr Packards P en engineers engineers and Superintendent McChrystal tal of the Gemini George Georg W litter Riter secretary s of the Eureka Hill Hlll Mining company and C CP CP i iP P Brooks surveyor are now at the mine and are engaged in sampling the from where the ore was ex cx extracted extracted that is claimed by the Beck company The brought suit a year ago against the Eureka Hill its neighbor on the south and the Gemini Mining company on the north claiming for ore that It de declared d dared these companies had extracted I from within lines Both i companies after alter a survey admitted I iI taking a small amount of ore amount amountIng amounting Ing In all to about 2000 and offered L payment In that sum The Bullion Beck declined the offer and the de defendant defendant defendant companies retaliated by bring bringing brIngIng ing suit against the plaintiff on the i same grounds The hearing is to take takeI place before Referee P L Williams in I Salt Lake next week |