Washington Union Coal Co. v. Thurston County

In the fall of 1907 and the spring of 1908, appellant, a coal mining company, purchased 5,044.49 acres of land and the right to explore, mine and take coal from beneath the surface of 255.5 other acres of land, all situate in Thurston county and lying within a territory about seven miles east and west and *209three miles north and south. The property consists of about ten detached tracts, the greater portion of the land lying in one parcel situated in the south central part of the territory mentioned. Near the center of the largest tract, appellant, since about 1908, has been, and is now,…