Show beck tunnel and uncle sam clash k big mining suit was filed th s week pek in the district court at provo the beck tunnel consolidated is the plaintiff and the uncle sam acted is the defendant the P petition e sets out that the uncle sam cons ex ole 01 e from the olix ainer er claim to the tle extel t of 2600 tons of the v alue of to the ton aggregating tl tf at this ore was extracted through the g workings of the anle sm sim gro I 1 nl 1 1 and t that hat it was wag ore that rightfully belonged to the beck tun nel company treble damages are asked for which the law lava brov provides I 1 des is collectible in der certa n conditions wh ch makes the aggregate damages asted for by the beck tunnel company 00 an injunction is also in order thit that tha uncle sam company may be prevented from further extract ng ore from the portion of territory now in dispute the humbug portion of the uncle sam gro ind iud is jesse knight made his first strike he took out through the humbug tunnel ore enough to make male him rich and later he sold the the entire uncle fearn sam property to the company which owns the ground at this time mr knight then turned his attention to toward ard the beck tunnel and here he was also successful in opening up lip immense ore deposits which extended ext eded over into then to the sioux and iron blossom during the past few years new ore bodies have ben open ed up in the humbug portion of the uncle sam ground in fact this haa has been the most profitable section of the company s territory mining men who are familiar with the situation say that it has for some time been ki own that the hum bug ore was making over int into 0 the beck tunnel ground and while 1 it t may be possible that the uncle barn sam corn coin pany has follon followed ed tl ti is ore beyond the line it is abdur I 1 to think that 2000 tons ot of ore have been shipped from the beck tunnel ground by the uncle sam company the beck tunnel officials have for several months had access to the uncle barn sam workings and have be n watching Nat ching the development develop menE of the humbug ore body almost as closely as the anele t acle sam pe pie officials of the latter company accord ing to information which comes to the reporter from a thoroughly re liable source vi will ill not attempt to deny that hat they have followed this ore over into the beck tunnel ground but thea the claim this ore under the apex r gilts and will also claim that portion of the ore body which et remains to be extracted it is also known here ere that tl e beck tu inel people have for some lime time been tra tr ing to fix up a vertical line agreement with the uncle sam adm and the failure to do this is no doubt what I 1 in the filing of the suit for over a near ear the uncle ram am officials have maintained that in the humbug ground they hae ha e the apex and northern extension of the beck funnel vein under the apex laws thea the will claim that portion of the ore body which they now know to extend over ove into the virgin territory of the beck tunnel aid if this ore should happen to connect up with the old workings of the hb beck tunnel as many well informed mining men that it will do another interesting phase would be added to the case inasmuch as the uncle sam company would a so claim all of the ore which has been mined by the beck tunnel company and from which that company has paid its dividends the fact jact that the beck tunnel company lost the ore in running toward the north and has been unable to find it and that the yankee cons con company has a so been uns in its search for the northern extension of the beck tun nel net ore boda would seem to bear beir out the theory advanced long ago by supt bupt C C giggs driggs of the uncle sam who la ms that this ore body has faulted to the v v est ai at d that the hum bug buo port on of the uncle sam ground not only contain the northern extension bat but the apex of the vein this week the beck tunnel got out an injunction which will prevent the uncle sam from mining the ore which is in d but supt bupt griggs say sa s that th s injunction will in no k ay inter t tere ere with the work which he has been doing at the uncle sam neither will it interfere with the mine s 0 input which will be kept up to the standard of about one carload daily the uncle sam has an exceptionally fine show ingo ing of tore ore in its humbug workings and ample aroun arouni I 1 in which to develop this ore body and for that reason the suit which has been started by the beck bunnel and which promises to bea be U lengthy legal battle will net not have a bad effect upon the mine mining news continued on oil page 3 |