Miners’ Liens and a $20,000 Mortgage Land on the Spokane Lead Mines
A Michigan creditor and a Spokane lienholder pursue the Metaline district mining company over unpaid notes and laborers’ claims.
Mortgage foreclosure proceedings were commenced in the superior court at Colville on Friday against the Spokane Lead Mines Co., operating properties in the Metaline district, by which it is sought to recover $20,000 with interest from Aug. 13, 1906. The plaintiff is William Knoll, who resides in Kenton, Mich. He is the assignee of two notes and a mortgage given to the Union Iron Works, of Spokane.
Two additional suits were brought by Arthur H. Knoll, of Spokane, who alleges that he is the owner of about $4,500 of laborers’ liens assigned by men employed during the past summer in the developing of the property in the Metaline district.
The mining claims involved are the Diamond R, Bella May fraction, Bella May fraction No. 3, Blue Bucket fraction, Diamond R No. 2 and Town Creek, and a one-half interest in the Roebuck group.
“He is the owner of about $4,500 of laborers’ liens assigned by men employed during the past summer.”
Metaline’s mining boom depended on distant credit and local labor, and when the money ran short, the courts became the real mine. The same tension between outside capital and unpaid work runs through resource economies today.
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