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# ROUND MT. HYD # WINS OUT Judge Averill of Tonopah has just handed down a decision in the case of R. P. Dunlap, receiver of the Round Mountain Banking Corporation vs. Frederick E. Browne, trustee in bankruptcy of the Round Mountain Mining company and the Round Mountain Daisy Mining company, which settles the ownership of the big 16-inch pipeline at Round Mountain. This pipeline extends from its intake on Jefferson creek to the "Dry Wash Wilson" placer ground on the property of the Round Mountain Mining company, a distance of about four miles, with a lateral branch connection with Shoshone creek. After crossing the east line of the Round Mountain company's ground, it is split up into several branches, which supplied water to the Sphnix, Round Mountain, and for operating the placer workings. Early in 1907, the Daisy company obtained an option on the waters of Jefferson and Shoshone creek for $25,000, and at once it leased a portion of this water to the Hydraulic company for three years for $25,000, and the Hydraulic company agreed to build the pipeline; and it was provided that at the end of the three years, the title to the pineline should pass to the Daisy company, and that the lease should have the effect of a bill of sale passing the title at that time to all the pipeline east of the property of the Round Mountain company. The Hydraulic company borrowed large sums of money and became heavily indebted. The pipeline cost about $60,000. It borrowed $20,000 from the bank and gave a mortgage upon all the