Park City Historical Society & Museum, Himes-Buck Digital Collection This is the second article on the Conkling Mining Co. v. Silver King Coalition Mines Co. lawsuit. Colonel Nicholas Treweek filed a lawsuit against the Silver King Coalition Mining company in January 1908. The suit alleged that the Silver King had taken more than 10,000 tons of ore worth $400,000 from the Conkling-Arthur lode mining claims in the Park City District owned by Treweek and his son-in-law J. Leonard Burch. In its April answer to Mr. Treweek’s complaint, the company admitted to virtually everything of importance charged in the United States District Court filing. “The defendant admits,” the answer recites, “that beneath the surface of the Conkling and Arthur claims is a lode or vein of rock in place, bearing silver, lead and other minerals, which on its course or strike extends through the length of said claims; but alleges that no part of the top or apex of said lode or vein is found anywhere within the boundaries extended down vertically of said claims, but that the apex is found in certain other claims owned by the defendant.”