Show litigation ON MR BECK A hearing upon it beina had williams P L williams who was appointed referee in the case of john beck vs the centennial and eureka mining companies commenced taking testimony in the case last saturday afternoon the matter was again taken up yesterday in chambers and will probably continue for several days the property involved is situated in the gintic tintic minine district and is considered very valuable it is feet in width by 1500 feet long and is surrounded by the mines emma caroline west bullion and eureka the owners of the latter being the principals in the action in am defense mr beck acts forth that in 1883 he had the land surveyed urve staked and required bonu ments to be placed in position the land was then patented but through some oversight failed to make the proper registry at the united states land office he further claims that he has complied with the iw in the matter of assessments and has spent annually since 1883 in developing the property and that a shaft of seventy feet has been put down at a great is p nse surveys were legally and caffi cialli made under eoy emment n he claims and thata recent survey sho vs the original stakes to be in a cor p i tion the eureka centennial people claim that beck should haye made a proper filing of his papers and should show a land grant from the united states be ore he could properly be entitled to the property and they also claim that he has not had done the of work as represented mr beck says they cannot prove that he has not fulfilled every requirement of the law and says they took unfair advantage of his aba ence in germany to commence litigation |