Show COLONEL WALL LOSES BIG sun SUIT Famous Kempton Case So Called Decided in Favor of the United States Co MILLIONS WERE INVOLVED LIME LODE HOLDS ORE AGAINST A FISSURE ff 4 l 4 Washington Oct 21 The supreme 4 court of the United States today de decided 4 the case of ot Leonidas M Law f 4 4 son and others othor versus the United 4 States Mining company favorably to f 4 the company The case Involves a 4 question as to the right to follow 4 4 mineral veins from the apex In the 4 Jordan Extension Northern Light 4 4 and other mines In the West rest Moun it f tain tam district near Bingham Utah 4 4 4 4 4 4 t p 4 t 4 4 4 This Is one of ot the most Important de decisions decisions affecting mining Interests In Utah that has been finally decided in many v ears ars It gives to the United States com corn company pany Parly any great bodies of ot lead ore are developed In n the Kempton and Ashton lodes by Colonel E A Wall Wail that have been ben vari variously variously van estimated to be worth from 1500 COO to While rhUe the tha title of the tile tilee Case e was wa as stated above Colonel Wall who held the properties under lease and bond was the real party In Interest and andIe be Ie is the man who has fought the prop proposition 0 through all the he courts and he be it is PoW Is I the loser by the decision While the tha real significance of the decision will wilt not be perfectly understood until its text has been received Colonel Wall rall compla complacently complacently acknowledges defeat and says that the he courts decision probably settles for good rood any an agitation between himself and the United States company Fight a Stubborn One The fight tight has han been a most stubbornly sought one from the start which dates back ack for tor between five and six years It has ian as cost both sides a great deal of mon inon money mony ey y Without dwelling on the early bat battles battIes tIes that finally led up to the main maln dis dispute ute It may be briefly stated that the point at Issue has been whether the great fissure ledge or vein eln In which the theore theore theore ore bodies were found held title to the ore are bodies or whether the lime time lode through which this fissure cut was to be con conE E trued as the vein and given title to the theore theore theore ore Colonel Wall contended that the fissure was the vein and that as It In his ground the ores it might contain be belonged belonged belonged longed to him The United States com corn company pany Jany claimed that the lode lime was the I Ivein vein that It in ground belonging I Ito to the United States company and dipped down through the claims owned by Wall Vall Walland Walland and carried title to the ores that might make In the fissures or out Into the lime from them This only Imperfectly explains the sit situation situation nation but it is probably sufficiently clear for the lay reader to understand just about what has happened It is 15 a decision that is likely like to some day cause lots of trouble In as the great belts of lime that cut through the dis district district may be made to play pla Important parts In the determination of apex and extra lateral rights In the years ears to come Great as the tho amount Involved In this action artion has been Colonel Wall Vall takes a philosophical view of the outcome and says that he sees no way wa ay Jr jo o get even with tha thE opposition unless he writes a a book booken en the subject If he should decide to do that there would be he a lively contribution to the economic geology and mineralogy of ef Bingham that cannot now be found in inthe inthe inthe the government reports |