Show ANOTHER BIG APEX SUIT kingman ariz nov 10 an ore body alleged to be worth and said to have slipped down from one mining com banys property to that of another was the basis of a suit on trial today in the mohave county superior court the suit was brought by the tom reed gold mining company against the united eastern mining company and was based on the apex law of arizona giving the discoverers of the apex or top of a ledge the right to the entire ledge even though it should j pass underground beyond the side boull boundaries I 1 of the discoverers property into the property of another the tom reed company claimed that a 2 1 ore body on its property was the apex of the ore body on what was known as the big jim claim having faulted or slid down to and within the tom reeds property proPer tf line a distance of several hundred feet wit W 00 0 were nesses for the tom reed company the stand today the united eastern which had bought the big jim claim from its dig coverers cover ers had not yet disclosed its delen counsel from san francisco los ange AH les coeur dalene dA Iene idaho and from arizoca aw and wit were in court for the companies V wid nesses summoned included horace chell former president of the america se searla statute of mining engineers fred s geologist dr W H emmons ad s geology of the university of minnesota inne sota logical cal i J 1 ae aco 0 director of the minnesota state dian survey J A burgess former general genera 1 ager of the united eastern we mine 11 ifer j n harrison of cripple creek oscar H and W is shey geologist albert burch lar wiley mining engineers an andrew brew C of the e department me fl t departie depart son head of the geologic bens I 1 it and university of california superintendent of the torn wd reed vertical j 0 d j c ver exhibits demonstrating the proa d despu disputed I 1 li horizontal workings of the said ta y erty had been prepared and were aj 1 of do 9 have cost many thousands the is the first apex law suit baroug bt j courts of arizona j |