Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-30 | Page 11 | Mining Experts Here for Suit

HEREF0R SUIT jUtah Consolidated Against 1 Apex Promises to Be Noted Case. Ono of tbo first suits to come before the November term of the United States district court will bo that brought by the Utah Consolidated Mining company against the Utah Apex Wining company, a suit which, mining men say, Is one of the most Important ever presented to the court hero. Already counsel and witnesses In the case are beginning to arrive. Among those who reached Salt take yesterday In connection with the litigation was Judge Curtis H. Llndley of San Francisco, a mining attorney who has written extensively ex-tensively on mining law, and who will be associated with former Judge John A. Marshall and William E. Colby of Ban Francisco for the defense. Mr. Colby is a lecturer on the law of mines at the University of California. Among the noted geologists who will testify are Dr. Waldemar Llngren, head of the department of geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former chief geologist of the United States geological survey; Dr. Andrew C. Lawson, dean of the school of mines at the University of California, a geologist of national note, and Albert Burch, tor many years genera superintendent of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines at Coeur d'AWne, Idaho, and a consulting engineer. engi-neer. All of these arrived in Salt Lake for consultation prior to the opening of the case. Other lawyers and experts are expected expect-ed before the hearings start before United States District Judge Tillman D. Johnson.