State v. Praul

Citations

• 57 Wash. 198
• 106 P. 763
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 726

Syllabus

<p>Mines and Minerals —“Veins”—■ Discovert — Evidence — Sufficiency. There is sufficient evidence of the discovery of a vein of ore (understood by miners to be a body of mineral-bearing substance bounded on each side by the country rock, of varying width and length) where a miner testified that the deposit of ore was what he called a moraine ledge, and explained that the ledge was in permanent place but had been moved or shoved down with the whole country; since there appeared to be a well-defined ledge kept in place by country rock, even if the whole mountain had been moved to one side by some force of nature.</p>