Tonopah & Salt Lake Min. Co. v. Tonopah Min. Co. of Nevada

HAWLEY, District Judge.

This is a, suit or proceeding brought under the provisions of section 2326, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1430], upon an adverse claim and protest filed in the United States land office at Carson, Nev., against the application of the defendant for a patent to consolidated claim No. 2,012, embracing eight mining claims, for the purpose of determining which of the parties has the better right to the mining ground in controversy. The right and interest of the complainant to the land is based upon a location of a mining claim situate in Tonopah mining district,' Nye…