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Show TAKE ORES UNLAWFULLY Emerald Lode Owners Own-ers Seeking to Recover $300,000 Damages From the Centennial Eureka Want to Inspect In-spect Under ground Workings Salt Lake, July 29 Seeking to re. coer $3011,(1011 for ores alleged to have been unlawfully extracted from Its grounds, the Bmerald Mining com i pany tiled boI1 anainst the Centennial Centen-nial Eureka Mining company in the j I "n it ed States district court yesterday yester-day afternoon The plaintiff alleges that it believes the defendant mm-panp mm-panp ha extracted no leas than 000 tons of ore from the Emerald lode mining claim In the Tlntlc district, dis-trict, it fixes the value of the ore at $100,0011 and asks for triple dam (ages, as allowed by law in cases of unlawful extraction of ore, and coits j of the suit The Emerald company I also asks for a court order permitting Jits 6ureyors to mal-e surveys ami Inspections In-spections in the underground workings work-ings of the f'entennial Eureka. The complaint is accompanied by affidavits made by H C. Hoffman president of the Emerald companv. K. E. Hoffman, vice president J, E. Oglesby, secretarv, and W F Earl, director The principal affidavit Is signed by H. C. Hoffman and embod ies the information contained in the affidavits Of the other officers According to Mr. Hoffman s affida vit repeated requests to be allowed to inspect the underground workings of the Centennial Eureka property I have been refused The Emerald and the Emerald Fraction Frac-tion claims are those oer which complaint com-plaint is made. The direct develop- meni of the Emernld. the affidavit j outlines, consist of a shaft driven to I a depth of 1000 feet, with a 100-foot j In-line at the foot of the shaft Other ; development work has been pursued through the Apex Mining company's property at a depth of 1880 feet. The1 affidavit asserts that the Centennial Eureka has a vertical shaft with a depth of 2000 feet, and the affiant charges that the company ha? entered the Emerald claim from the 1400 and WOO foot levels. |