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Show TESTIMONY IN 0PH1R CASE NEARS AN END W. M. Wylie, one of the best known mining men in the United States, and holding an important position with the Amalgamated Copper company, testified testi-fied for the plaintiff today in the suit for possession brought by Thomas Keelev and others against the Ophir Hill Consolidated Mining company. The case is dragging along slowly, but it is thought that all tho testimony will have been submitted at the end of today's session. Argument was set for next Wednesday by order of Judge Marshall. The case is based on the old "apex" claim, brought forward in the majority of suits for possession of mining min-ing properties. Joseph Pyle of Butte, of the Clark mines; Horace V. Win-chell Win-chell of the Amalgamated companv, E. H. McDonald and J. E. Talmage, of the University of Utah, E. W. Clark of the Ophir mine, and C. E. Finch of New York City, testified yesterday as expert ex-pert witnesses. |