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Show i Utah Copper company claims the right to collect this water and to recover the copper, and to do this must drive a tunnel into the dump and construct a pipe line across certain property of the defendants to carry the water to precipitating: vats. That the water and all its con tents belong to them is the contention con-tention of the defendants, who deny the Utah Copper company the right to drive the tunnel or construct the pipe line. It is estimated that 100,000,-000 100,000,-000 pounds of coper is contained contain-ed in the dump. The copper company com-pany is basing its claim under the eminent domain law. Utah Copper Co. Starts Suit Before Jurge Chris Mathison in the Third District Court at Salt Lake City a hearing was begun this week in the suit of the Utah Copper Co., against the Montana-Bingham Consolidated Co. and others, to take copper from property which they leased and to condemn land owned by the defendants for the erection of tanks for precipitation purposes. pur-poses. According to the allegations of the Utah Copper company, a perpetual easement to dump certain cer-tain refuse, ores into what is known as Winnemucoa gulch was granted them several years ago. Now it is found that water which has percolated through this dumped ore has taken up copper in solution and that by certain precipitation processes about fourteen pounds of copper cop-per per thousand gallons of water can be recovered. The |