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Show 'BUN GIVEN H BIG MINING JOON, Suit Involving Millions at Butte Is Decided by Judge Bourquin. Special to Tho Tribune. Bl'TTE, .Mont., Jan. 22. Loa.ling mining attorneys and engineers tnniyht, in discussing Ihe decision of Federal .ludge Bourquin in the suit of the Kim Orlu Mining company against 0 jlltte A: Superior Mining company to establish estab-lish title to ore deposits and veins valued val-ued at $120.0(10,000, regarded it as a partial par-tial victory and partial defeat for both sides. The compromise decision leaves the Clark interests, which own the Klin Orlu and brought tlte suit, and the Butte & Superior in about the same position as before the action was brought. The Butte & Superior is given 500 feet disputed dis-puted on the Rainbow lode and pavs ! nothing for ores mined there, anil tho Kim Orlu gets .".00 feet. The Butte, & Superior gets title, to part of the Jiain-buw Jiain-buw lode where it mined. The Butte & Superior company is gien extra-lateral rights on the Jersey Blue vein, which apexes in tho Black Kock ground, and on that part of tho Rainbow vein which apexes there. This entitles the Butte k Superior to follow the Kainbow or .Jersey Blue vein into the Kim Or!u ground to the southeast of the point where the Kainbow crosses the line nf claims in case either vein .lips to the south into the Kim Orlu ground. The greatest victory of the Kim Orlu company was embodied in the decree of the court that its Kim Orlu mining location loca-tion was prior to that of the Black Hock claim. The fruits of this victory-were victory-were minimized bv the remainder of the decision, which fixed the ownership of the ores and veins upon a variety of other grounds as well as upon that. The court held that the Kim Orlu comr --v. in the deed made of the Black Kock ( iaim to the defendant or its predecessors pred-ecessors at the time the Clark interests sold their claim to tlte tatter, transferred all minerals in the claim to the grantees. Judge V. H. Dickson of Salt Lake was leading counsel for the Butte & Superior. Su-perior. The decision came too late to have any effect on the stock market. |