COURT DECIDES
CASE AGAINST
MINING CO.
BUTTE, June 23.—Millions are in
volved and many mining companies
in the country are affected by a de
cision of the United States supreme
t court at Washington last week. A body
blow was delivered to all producing
companies whose use of the minerals
separation process involved them in
the technicalities of the courts hold
ing. More than two and a half mil
lions of dollars have been expended in
the litigation which was ended by the
supreme court decree reversing the
decision of the circuit court of ap
peals at San Francisco which held
that the Minerals Separation Conv
pany’s patents covered the so-called
flotation process when limited to the
tise of one half of one per cent, or
less, of oil. Minerals Separation held
that their patents covered any frac
tion of one per cent. The court up
holds that contention.
In December 1916 the United States
supreme court decided in favor of
Minerals Separation, Ltd., against
Hyde, upholding the patent of the
Minerals Separation process, which
was patented in 1905 after the discov
ery of the process for producing a
mineral bearing forth as the result of
the use of oil and mechanical agita
tion. In April 1917 the United States
district court at Butte decided that
the case against the Butte & Superior
was identical with that against Hyde.
In August 1917 the same court hand
ed down a decision that the Butte &
Superior Mining Company, by use of
more oil in flotation than was used in
the Minerals Separation patent was
merely an attempt to avoid the patent,
and the mining company was ordered
to furnish a bond of $2,500,000 and to
deposit all of its earnings above atual
operating expenses, with the court,
until an appeal had finally been ad
judicated.
In May 1918 the United States cir
cuit court of appeals at San Francisco
decided favorably on an appeal from
the decision of the district court at
Butte, and the following month the
United States court at Helena revoked
the injunction against the mining com
pany ordered by the higher court, thus
relieving the Butte & Superior of the
necessity of making such deposits and
monthly reports, providing the com
pany used more than one half of one
per cent of oil, or more than ten
pounds of petroleum to a ton of ore
treated by the flotation process. A
■writ of certiorari was granted to the
Minerals Separation Company, and an
order was made restraining the Butte
& Superior from disposing of its
assets, pending the final decision by
the supreme court, which has just
been recorded.
The American Mining congress has
filed with ' the federal trade commis
sion a complete brief in support of its
charge that the Minerals Separation
Company, by its business methods and
the onerous terms of its license con
tracts, is using unfair methods of com
petition and asks the right to inter
vene in behalf of the mining industry
of the west. This brief is now under
consideration by the Federal Trade
Commission.
WANT ENCOURAGEMENT
FOR MINING INDUSTRY
WASHINGTON, June 23.—Accord
ing to railway administration figures
the mines and oil wells of the United
States furnish 55.75 of the tonnage
hauled by the railways. The material
manufactured from ores and minerals
produced from American mines and
oil wells furnish 25 per cent of the
remaining tonnage. This ratio has
existed In a greater or less degree for
many years. In 1910 the total com
bined appropriation for the bureau of
mines and the geological survey was
$1,999,815 and for the department of
agriculture $17,000000. In 1919 the
combined appropriations for the
bureau of mines and geological sur
vey was $4,533,040 as against $72,
000,000 for agriculture. Seventy per
cent of the cost of producing raw
metals and coal is for labor. The Amer
ican Mining Congress will ask con
gress for encouragement of mining
through reasonable protection for es
sential war metals and minerals. Bills
are already before congress for pro
tection of several of these substances.
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