Show DA1YWEST VS ANCHOR IThe Case Wns to Come Up Today But Will be Postponed The suit of the DalyWest Mining 1 company vs the Anchor Mining company com-pany was set for trial today but General Gen-eral Manager Bamberger of the Daly West said yesterday that the case had becn continued at his request He explained ex-plained that the reason for the continuance con-tinuance vias because there was a fair prospect of a compromise being agreed upon when Mr Holmes who Is one of the principal owners of the Anchor nine returned from his European tour This Js a very Important case which has been pending for more than a year It was Instituted by Mr J J Daly while president and manager of the I DalyWest mine By agreement each company selected engineers several months ago and they made a joint survey of the ground in dispute In their report they agreed that the Anchor An-chor people had trespassed on Dalv VVcst ground and had taken out several sev-eral thousand tons of ore The value of the ore according lo the estimates furnished by the engineers was fully 200000 It Was to recover the value of the ore taken that the suit was brought The Anchor company did not deny that the ore was extracted from DabWest ground but one defense offered was that the statute of limitations had run against the DalyWest claim Mr JJaiy In his last annual report referred to this suit and urged that it be pressed toa speedy trial as there was an his opinion little doubt about the outcome once the case was brought to an Issue Mr Bamberger is also of the opinion that the DalyAVost company Jias a good case which he says will bt > pressed provided there is not a com promise proposed which is satisfactory to the DalyVest company and will so cure to the cornaTy all that It is justly entitled to Be said that a Proper compromise would be cheaper than an expensive lawsuit The proposition to compromise comes from the Anchor ompa ny |