Show i ON THE E BE EVE DF OF BATTLE 1 4 t Big Grand Central Mammoth M Suit Snit Begins Tomorrow Tomorrow i A DEMAND D OF 1 t THE LAW OF WILL SWILL PIG FIGU IN RB OAB I On the eve ve of the great giat battle which is to be wa waged ed between the Grand Cen Gen Hal ual ana an l Mammoth Mining Minn companies Judge Higgins at Ne Nehf hl the thecIa thecia cIa ns are gathering cathering and the struggle tru le lewill will no doubt be he on in earnest eart eara Jt by Mon day da y morning The case calle is set for to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow but being Saturday it is i iha hardly ha expected that more than the preliminaries I n will ill be b arranged It was wa learned yesterday that of the small i army of experts and ami engineers who lave have Hl VP at different times taken a hand in preparing evidence in the case not more moie than five live or six on each side will Willi be called to the witness stand Just Ju t I who vho thor tho f 3 wi will be bu not flot Moen 1511 dl x i Ugh it 1 Is la presumed that the u rand Centrals forces forcee will be organ zed by Judge Juige Dickson with A P who r recently went into the plaintiffs camp in the lead Colonel ColonelL E A L Wall all Att M hi K J Haruie B and other weighty talent are also o booked to as ast st t in bringing out the strong points in III plaintiffs cause cau On the tho th side a strong ar at ary ray y of talent ha has bu been retained and nd n the expert force is 18 no less leas formidable formidable formidable able Victor M Clement Clem t D B Gillies Gilbes R a i e c Gemmel and many other top in the science of mining nun min mineralogy and engineering appear in the t Mat of those tho e who will guard Mr Mc Me latre ire and the Mammoth and that the tie tIght will be a pret tJ ty one n is assured assure in advance The he case has taken on an added in terest since the original action was Brought b by the Grand Central company to collect for f r ores alleged to isie bave been unlawfully taken from rein its Us territory in that some BOrne time since and utter alter his experts had given much study to tu the Uie conditions existing in the two mine President McIntyre came back at Itt his h hi accusers ers with a counter action in fn which he demanded no less than for ores taken by the Grand Central from a vein or chute alleged all ged to have ba its apex in Mammoth territory and Dd for that reason claimed to belong to plaintiff even though it did run into Grand Central Ge ground From m this it may be seen that the law Jaw of apex as al applied to extra lateral latel rights will not only be set up to keep tj ue the e Grand Central from recovering un und under under d der r its action but It will also form the theba basis ts of the Mammoths 00 suit The contention was made by a well 2 posted mining man at the time hostilities ties tie between the two companies was threatened and some time previous to the filing of the action against the Mammoth that It would be a sorry day dllY for Tintic when ben the apex question was raised as in his opinion the geological conditions were such nuch that the vein systems terns te if such the ore channels could b be called would be hard to satisfactorily fly ily explain Other well informed men lIen maintain that the same rule which governs gi verns the right to extract ores from froma a well defined fissure ure or contact vein v in applies with equal force to a chute o ot chimney of ore In other words wor s if a owner has hag the right to follow a Vein In in his own ground out through its vertical side alide lines to the thede thed de d p he be would have precisely the same right ht to follow a chute or chimney whether there were evidences of a vein in the accepted meaning of the term teri te or not The approaching trials will it is said have the solution of these very ques que questions te to deal with and that they will willbe willbe b be quickly and permanently deter determined mined Il is not lIOt generally believed Both have made Dilute extensive preparations and Bd neither lacks lacka for means with which to o wage w ce the battle and it looks as 5 L It would be a fight light to a tak |