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Show IBEX GOLD MINING COMPANY WINS CASE 1 i In a decision handed down thla morning morn-ing bjr E. O. R, Thorn peon, register of the locaJ land office, and M. at. Kalghn, receiver of tha land office, tha United States government loses In its suit against tha Ibex Gold Mining company. ! Testimony in tha case was taken at Nephl last February and submitted to the locaJ government officials. Tha contention of the government was that "the lend embraced Is not mineral In character; that the claimant company has not made a discovery of mineral In any place on this claim; that tha Ibex Oold Mining company did not make the ssld application In good faith to secure' the- land for mlnersL. purposes, but to secure the control of tha water thereon." there-on." .eH- In the decision tha first two els lms of j the government are Joined. It la da- elded thnt the property in question la In the mineral belt of the Tlntle district. ! The third claim of tha government la dla missed In a few lines of typewritten matter, mat-ter, that the water had been used by the public for many years and that any additional flow which might have been secured oy the mining company did not prove that it -took up tha claim for the purpose of securing tha water light. |