| Show IMPORTANT MINING DECISION 0 transcript nevada city cal the supreme court of the united states has recently handed down a decision in the famous central eureka mining case of amador county which has occupied the attention of the courts for several years the property is principally owned by the coleman brothers formerly of grass valley and the manager is W R thomas also once a well known grass valley man who worked in the idaho when the Co lemans owned it the decision affirms the previous decisions of the lower courts which have all been in favor of the central eureka As the point involved is an important one to miners the following report of the case will drill be found of interest the supreme court of the united states sitting henbane in washington D C has affirmed the decision of the supreme court of california in the case of central eureka mining company vs east central eureka mining company and the decision was written by justice holmes who affirmed the decision of the california supreme court written by justice angelotti who upheld the amador county superior court all the decisions were in favor of the central the point involved has never before been passed upon by the supreme court it was this has a mining claim located prior to the act of 1872 and patented subsequent to that act with convergent end lines any extra lateral rights the toman ranch adjoins the central eureka on the east the centrals shaft now 2400 feet deep extends into the earth at an angle of 70 degrees and at a point about 1500 deep the shaft goes under the east side line of the claim and into the ranch it is below this point that all the values in the mine were found and over extracted the end lines of the central are not parallel but converge towards each other so that at a depth of about six thousand feet they come together and central loses the lode entirely this is one reason that has kept the central stock down when it was paying big dividends under the mining law as it stood prior to 1872 it was not necessary for a claim to have parallel end lines but on may of that year congress passed a law requiring parallel end lines and as a penalty withholding rights unless the end lines were parallel by rights is meant the right of the owner of a claim to follow all lodes that apex on his claim in their downward course though they may penetrate raie into adjoining lands the central eureka was located before the centrals predel predecessor assor hall mcallister mcalliste the noted lawyer applied for a patent issued this law obtained and is still the law and C W randall organized a new cam company pany called the east central eureka and objected to the central mining under the ranch the issue raised meant the life or death of the central so a very bitter long and expensive litigation was started which lasted seven years the central brought the suit to quiet its title to the ore bodies under the ranch |
