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Show HII COMPANIES. MAY HAVE LAW SUIT Former Property Owner Objects to Relinquishing His Rights to Claims. It Is strongly Intimated that there may be some qullo extensive litigation as the result of tho recent operations of the Chief Consolidated and Eureka City Mining Min-ing companies, In tho Tlntlc district. Report Re-port has t that M, L. Powers, one of the pioneer operators of tho district, Is going go-ing to claim prior rights to a section of the mlnorallzcd territory now under the control of tho aforesaid companion, and that he has expressed his Intention of carrying tho matter Into tho courts In case satisfactory agreement Is not reached between himself nnd tho operating oper-ating companies In the near future. Powers, it seems, took up mill rights In the early clays on a part, of the territory ter-ritory on which Eureka City now stands, and which the Eureka City Mining company com-pany and the Chief Con. company plans developing. Later. In doing some work on tho territory. Powers discovered that the ground was woll and. as ho predicted, richly mineralized, and ho accordingly at that tlmo relocated tho claims and made arrangements for patent. At about the same time tho Eureka. City corporation also applied for townslto patents, and In a decision handed down by the land office of-fice as a refiult of the contest which ensued. en-sued. Powers was defeated. He, however, according to report, fulfilled ful-filled the necessary requirements for the protection of what he considered his rights, and now that tho Eureka City people and tho Chief Con. company are mining, as he was not permitted to do. ho Is entering strong objection. It. Is sold that the Chlof Con. people some time ago expressed a willingness to adjust matters with Mr. Powers, but they have so far failed to do so. nnd consequently come the rumors of Impending Impend-ing litigation, which will probably be fought out In the courts. |