| Show AGREE ON APEX QUESTION mining expositor ely nev to avoid legal complications that might arise in the future over the law of apex the giroux consolidated mines company and the butte and ely copper company have entered into an agreement which satisfactorily disposes of the rights of ownership to veins within their several possessions it is similar in every respect to the adjustments previously made between the nevada consolidated boston ely and other large copper companies in the ely district whose mineral estates adjoin the giroux and butte and ely companies stipulate that neither of them will take advantage of the law of apex but that the common law which gives the owner of the surface the privilege of ownership of all mineral underneath shall apply in every controversy that might arise both corporations have expressed a willingness to waive all provisions giving them the right to follow lodes and agree to make the boundary lines of their claims carrying downward from the surface in definitely the true and actual boundary of 0 their mineral estate without regard to what laws might be in effect on the statute hooks books covering this particular subject anxious to prevent any uncertainties that might arise with respect to the ownership of all mineral underneath the companies have decided to consider the ore within the boundary lines as belonging to the company owning the surface under the law of apex in relation to the deposit of mineral bearing earth the owner of the location is permitted to follow all veins throughout their entire depth the apex lying within the surface boundaries of such claims |
