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IRON SILVER MINING CO. v. ELGIN MINING CO.

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118 U.S. 196 (1886)

6 S.Ct. 1177

30 L.Ed. 98

IRON SILVER MINING COMPANY, v. ELGIN MINING & SMELTING COMPANY & Others.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 26, 1886.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter H. Smith and Mr. G.G. Symes for plaintiff in error.

Mr. T. M Patterson, with whom was Mr. C.S. Thomas on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the court:

The question presented for our decision is one of great interest to miners on the public lands, and with respect to it much difference of opinion exists. This difference has arisen from a consideration, on the one hand, of what would properly be called the true end lines of a claim upon a lode of a specified length and width, after it has been opened by explorations, and...

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