Spiers

At the commencement of this action the superior court appointed a receiver to take charge and con trol of the property involved in the suit,—certain mining grounds and claims, together with the plants situated thereon and used in running the mines,—with power to operate the said mines and plants. The receiver so appointed thereupon took possession of the property, and operated the same as thus directed. In October, 1899, he represented to the court that he had in his possession a large quantity of tailings, of the probable value of a million dollars, and that the same was being increased each day, and that they could be advantageously worked by a process known as the cyanide process, and asked of the court an order authorizing him to purchase and install a cyanide plant for the purpose of working said tailings. Upon hearing his petition, .the court made an order directing and authorizing him to purchase and install a cyanide tailings plant, said plant to be of an estimated daily capacity of three hundred tons, and when such plant should be installed that he should operate the same and work and treat said tailings, and further directed him to pay for the purchase and installation…