Keywords: Tailings, Lexington Mill - NARA - 298143.jpg Scope and content From Hugh Magone v Colorado Smelting and Refining Co et al Magone sued for damaged because the piles of tailings from the ore concentrator and smelter operated by Anaconda poluted the waters of the Deer Lodge River and his farm in Deer Lodge Valley Citing the economic benefit of the mines and smelters to the region the Master of the Chancery said the plaintiff ought to have known the water was polluted and refused to award monetary damages General notes 298143 Local identifier U S District Court for the District of Montana Butte Term 07/20/1892 - NARA's Pacific Alaska Region Seattle NRIAS 6125 Sand Point Way NE Seattle WA 98115-7999 1906 Record group Record Group 21 Records of District Courts of the United States 1685 - 2004 Record group ARC 350 Equity Case Files compiled 1915 - 1939 Series ARC 298115 File unit Hugh Magone v Colorado Smelting and Refining Co ca 1893 - ca 1900 File unit ARC 298116 Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRIS-21-EQBUTTE-222-MAGONE3 Other versions <gallery> File Tailings _Lexington_Mill_-_NARA_-_298143 tif tif File Tailings _Lexington_Mill_-_NARA_-_298143 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Lexington Mine Mining buildings in the United States Mining in the 1900s Silver mining Tailings Water pollution in the United States |