One of the largest consolidations of property within, the Cripple Creek district is announced from the Colorado Springs office of the Woods Investment Company. The T. F. T. claim is included in the deal.

Londonderry Case Decided.
Judge Seeds in the District Court at Cripple Creek, May 23rd, handed down his decision in the Londonderry versus the United Gold Mines Company case, involving apex rights. It is a signal victory for the United Gold Mines Company. The case was appealed by the plaintiff to the Supreme Court.
The suit not only involved apex rights but the ownership of some seventy odd thousand dollars, now in the keeping of the court. That, however, will not be paid until a final determination by a higher court.
The court held that in conflicts between mining claims located and afterwards each party secured by patent ground originally, in conflict, the party who had prior location is entitled to all extralateral vein rights. The decision is very important in more respects than one. The court overruled the objection to the evidence that was offered on the part of the defendant.
The T. F. T. claim is an older location and is entitled to all the veins beneath and apexing in its ground.
The Londonderry is entitled to all the veins beneath and apexing its ground.
The court finds that the T. F. T. is entitled to all the veins in controversy except that part of the vein which crosses the southwesterly end line nine feet from corner No. 3 and passes out of the side line northwesterly fifteen feet from corner No. 3
There being no ore in that part of the vein remaining to the Londonderry, the judgment of the court was in favor of the T. F. T. as against the Londonderry claim, and the judgment for the defendant for costs.