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within the lines of contiguous property, the only boundaries 
limiting being those formed by the planes passing vertically 
along these parallel end-lines produced. These rights of 
the apex were in the main considered proper and just, as 
up to the time of the discovery of this great ore-zone in 
those sedimentary rocks veins had been found to have gen- 
erally a very steep inclination or verticality, and few ques- 
tioned the justice of the law, although some very curious 
and complex cases: have become famous in the courts. 
For example, the same vein changing considerably and 
abruptly in the direction of its strike, two claims are 
located on this vein, but each along a different direction ; 
then their end-lines produced will overlap, and each will 
claim that part of the vein thus doubly overlapped; or 
claims may be located on two veins that intersect or even 
merge into one another. At Aspen the owners of locations 
along this outcropping contact between the two limestones 
have maintained that the ore was placed along the “ con- 
tact,’ and constitutes a vein or lode as meant in the law of 
the apex, and consequently have instituted suits against 
owners of those locations down from the outcrop in which 
extremely rich ore-bodies have been found. The camp of 
miners has been divided into two factions, “‘ Apexers” and 
“ Side-liners,”’ the latter of whom contend that the ore is 
found in irregular, disconnected bodies, and not as continu- 
ous veins or lodes, and therefore, they aver, apex rights 
cannot here be upheld, and the courts have never as yet 
exactly decided this point. 
Looking at the section taken at Aspen another difference 
will be noticed in that a great thickness of shales intervenes 
between the ‘“‘ porphyry ” and the “ Blue ” limestone below. 
Little or no ore has ‘been found here along the igneous 
rock, even where in a few places it traverses the limestones 
as dykes, at which contact the limestone has been marble: 
ized. Ore has been found and mined in these shales, con- 
sisting of lead and silver sulphides, but no bodies of high 
grade and value. 
In 1888, Mr. D. W. Brunton, one of the most eminent 
