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Show SPLIT DECIS1 Ii Mii CASE Placer Suit Against Glasgow & Western Partially Successful; Suc-cessful; Will Appeal. Judge Karringtou in the United States court at Curson City. Nov.. las rendered a decision Jn the stilt involving 200 feet of the gulch In Coppor canyon, the effect ef-fect of which la to I Wive 1650 feet or I It In ronlrol of the Glawgow fc Wuilcrn tvxploratloii Intarests ajul open 750 feet of the disputed gulch to plnccr location. The Glasgow & W'ostcni people were owners of the Copper Canyon Minos I property consisting of a farue number of claims, but three of which, however, ovarln p the gulch ami are thus Involved In this litigation. Joseph Italph. liqui dator of Ihe Glasgow & Western, has re-eelved re-eelved the following siirnma'ry of Judge Fnrrlnston's decision: My Judgment Is that the west side line of the Salt Lake No. .1 Iod; claim should b! drawn- parallel to the present side line three hundred eel west of the center of the Salt Lake lodo .is disclosed In the exravn-tlons'at exravn-tlons'at the mill and loachlng" plant. The west side Hue of the Midas should be drawn paralM to the pres-nl pres-nl side lino, three hundred foci west oC the center of the Midas lode, as shown in the shaft designated as shaft 3. The east side Hue- of the livening- Star should he drawn parallel paral-lel to the present skip line three hundred hun-dred feet cast of the center of tho vein which is disclosed In a cut designated desig-nated as open cut B. Lund not Included In-cluded within tli" lode line thus drawn Each party will pay Ills own costs and have twenty days within which to take such steps as he may be advised. Judge Furrington's decision is baaed on the theory that the locators were entitled en-titled on each dim to only ."100 feet on each aide of the discovery point. On the Salt Lake claim No. 3 this cut off 150 fcot of the west side of the company's ground. This Is the clnlm farthest north. The other two claims are to the south, and adjoining. For the same reason Ihe Midas side line was cut off 100 feet on the west side and the Evening Star claim cut off fifty feel on tho east side line. -Mr. Ralph deiiaros his Intention to appeal the case and light It through tho supreme conn of tho United Stntes If necessary. One of the charges made by the men who Jumped the ground by locating lo-cating placer claims last summer wns that tho Glasgow & Western had abandoned aban-doned the ground, but Mr. Italph declares de-clares the company and lis predecessors have hold the Salt Ijike claim for thirty years and that more than $50,000 has been spent on the claim. The buildings of the company were erected on the dib-puted dib-puted ground and it Is declared that there has never been a day In all that time but what a man lias been stationed on the property. In 111:.' a number of now buildings were erected there. Mr. Ralph says the supreme courts of Utah and Nevada have held that undisputed undis-puted possession for two years in Nevada Ne-vada nnd five years In Utah constitutes an unbreakable title. These claims arc now in process of patent by Mr. Ralph as liquidator. This Is a part of the rich placer ground of Copper canyon, which lias created such a furor the past year. |