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Show ore which had been dumped for some time past by the Copper company upon a tract of land owned by the Montana-Bingham and others, the right of the Copper company to use said land having been secured by means of an easement from the owners of the claims. It appear that the water from rain " ' " ;', Highly jn-pregnafed jn-pregnafed with 'pnet . ;.crco-lates ;.crco-lates through the ore and that this water seeps on through the ground of the Montana-Bingham company to a point at the lower extremity of the dump where, for the past few years, it has been utilized by that company for precipitation purposes and that from $12,00 to $14,000 annually was realised from the same. The Copper company's contention for the right to take this water from the dump before it passed through th ground of the 1 ull- 1 liner company waa i-nuniKvu nu the controversy thrown into court. Justice Straup writes the opinion which is to the effect that the Copper company is entitled to the water in the dump but that it can not follow and recover the water after it has seeped through the soil of the other company's claims. UTAH COPPER WINS OVER MONTANA BINGHAM A local mining controversy that Bingham mining men have watched with considerable interest since flit Started several months ago, was disposed dis-posed of in supreme court Monday. The Utah Copper company sued the Montana-Bingham Con. Mining company et ai for the right to waiter that was seeping through low grade |