Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-04-04
The Great Mining Suit.
FULL PROCEEDINGS.
FORENOON SESSION.

N. Wescoatt called for plaintiffs-fUpon the
witness taking the stand large and wel-executed
chart OF the ground in dispute, with contiguous
ground, prepared by himself as civil enginee of
the Raymond L Ely Company, WIS con- picuUusly
| posted so as TO be viewed by the Jury and bar /
l am civil and mining engineer have been in
That business 10 or l6 years; 10 years ia this
state; have examin ami suryeye d many mines
| in Nevada; have been in this district two wears
surveying ana examining mines; am well &C.
| quainted with the IL mes IN this d strict; made
that map from actual surveys. He explains the
map. The red lines on the vertical section rep
resent cross-head; from the fifth levsl to point
| Az the dip of the Raymond l. Ely veil s repre-
| seHttd from the Penaca shaft nor heast t. point
Il is an excavation Ii feet long; pc ut Il, was
tod by The Boxes, wa te location of the Pana q
ledge; from pont X to NJ ina in differ nj places
| outcrOpp.nos If the vein; have no doubt tn Ire
vein outcroppings; the vein lis n ariy rtical
along that cut (poin ing to neast OF the
Pauaca shaft nave found galena ut seven points
In the cut found galena ia .hrte PLACES III t &c
cut 10 or IL feet northeast OF the PaIiaci shaft;
took Is samples of ore for assay ing rom i cl ne
NJ along the cut to the Panaca shaft; the samples
| were obtained IL feet apart; got them assayeL by
Mr. Bdtler Produces certiiicates Of As;ay.l III.
assayeGs return for the LIST was IS ~ in silver
the I'd 50 IS do, I'D Sll3 " do, Attn S3j Is do 5th
% ~ do, 9Th SIS II do TIN IS 05 do, 9Th ST. Is
do. 9th SO ~ do, 10th s31 AZ do. 18th S. ~ do
18th s3l Al :, 18th Sl3 81 do, 14th SI3 Is d. !,
10 81 AZ do, 10th S2l 80 do 18th sos "a do
| 18th SG2 80; got the last sample in the Panaca
| shaft; took the samples from the solid rock; it
was from rock in pace, partly decomoosed
| ara partly s)iid; the surface was crf u I Z re.
| moved, 80 there could have been no surface i'm.
| pregnation; took the samples to the assayer
| myself; most of them were of a brown reddish
| appearance: think l could take Mr.. Reyes and
| take out as good samples from the came places;
| viii do SO ii desired the country rock il a
| brownish shale sate it don't resemble the
groupings of the ledge; will 90 with Mr.. Keyes at
| noon II desired. attorney for the defense q SKIS
TO cut cross-end Is told he can dig 10 feet deep
II he wishes.I There was no work going on in
| the main shaft when l made the examination;
| found ore 80 feet down in the main shaft; found
ore from incline NJ to level marked lat So feetl
the incline dipped 55 deg. in some places and in
| other places was perpendicular; found country
rock, smooth wall in places, and q seam or break
from the top down; the seam matter is o deep
red or brown color, similar to rock found all
along the cut, but Of little deeper red; found in
the level the ore wall and some galena; from
points to found smooth wall on the bottom
and some ore, think-wont be positive there
is vein matter all along; from points to II are
two smooth walls; east from point 5, 20 feet
stope OF the Raymond Ely Company is entered;
there is galena and ordinary silver ore before
reaching the stope; in the winze from point to
6 is an incline, with ore Oh each side;
the wall in the first level is the wall OF the Ray
mond Ely vein; there is q wall from The in.
cline to the first level of the Raymond Ely Co.;
from the first level west to point | found
one; there is cross-course whith has twisted
the ore body; the cross-course has broken the
vein bodies everywhere; the cross-course comes
in again at point IA; from IL along the purple
line is another drift containing ore: at IA the
cross-course cuts off the ore; along the cross
course TO . l found the east wall the cross.head
and filling overhead and west; rising to the west
the ore comes in at point II; from So to % there
is some ore in the wipze; by going northwest
along the cross-course again found ore and the
vein; between the second and third level /
found the vein excavated to the cross.head:
from the Lightner shaft west, in the third level
found drift and walls and ore stripped above to
the 49, at % comes in the ledge; from % to "a is
drift in the cross-head; ore is exposed all
along; from % to 80 found fissure filled with
ore from that ore to the second level Of the Pan
AGA shaft is three or four feet; from point 81 on
Panaca shaft to point 40 on vertical section, the
ore has been stripped out; from 80 to IS found
drift and ore exposed from 81 to A. being
from the third to the fourth levels, and within
u few feet of the Panaca shaft, passed through
an ore streak; 1T the drift breakes into the
Panaca shaft; commencing at the Lightner shaft
and passing west on the 4h level to point 62 there
is an excavation and ore taken out, except at the
crosshead X; have no doubt it is the same ledge
on both sides of the head east of the Panaca
shaft; think the ore bodies are the same vein,
but that the breaking through occurred before
the filling took place; found regular seams
through the stratifcaton; the slate is badly
broken; from the open cut to the Panaca shaft
is u continuation of the same wall from point 6
to point NJ; the incline from 6 to shows the
same break as in the Raymond 4 Ely vein and
assays are the same; am satisfied it is contin-
uation of the same vein; the cut from NJ to the
Panaca shaft is the same as the general course of
the vein, but lodges hatten near the surface; the
out-croppings ought to be about point M; the
ledge formation at the top is slate, and quartz
lite below: in quartz veins, as rule, they are
strong and regular, except through the cross.
head twists; irregular in course and dip in the
the dip is 81 degrees to the southwest; dip ii,
in the shale from to II is about so.
Cross. examined-I think it is possible to tel!
where ledge will come to the surface by its dip
800 or 400 feet down; lodges have general dip.
but cannot tell the correctsdip through long
distance; was engaged on the Colnstock lode 3
years; the foot-wali Oh the Comstock is the most
regular ever saw; the trst dip of the east wall
was to the west nearly perpendicular; then it
assumed perpendicular dip, and at depth of
about 800 feet 1t changed and took the dip of
the west wall; the course Of the assure IS, l
| think, determined by the direction of the force
making it; it is well known that matter will
yield in the line of least resistance; where fs-
gures cross ut on acute angle the new tissure
will 'llow the old assure short distance; aud
then, as u general rule, will assume its g neral
course; from my knowledge OF the dip of u ledge
at given depth we can usually ascertain where
it will crop at the surface; when engaged in sur
veying the Meadow Valley mine 1 estimated
the general dip of the vein from the workings of
an old shaft, and new shaft was sunk on that
dip and followed the ledge some 500 feet; taking
the dip from the LIST and I'd levels of the Ray.
mond Ely mine would throw the outcropping
little south Of the incline NJ; take the dip five
or six hundred feet below, and you can often
tell where the groupings should be at the sur
face; when the dip is on an extreme ut one point
on the vein you will, as general thing, soon
find an opposite extreme; have no rule in re-
gard to the vein in question except that derived
from observation OF the facts; when the general
dip is rs degrees II it changes to As degrees it
will soon become sleeper; that is my experience
of veins in this locality; point So is l5S feet be-
low the surface at the Lightner shaft:
low shale; it is hard in some places
and soft in others; blasting was necessary
think in some portions Of the incline; the shale
goes down about 100 feet ut that point; cannot
| say what portion was blasted; the incline was
| sunk frcm the surface with sledge, pick and CAD
| 1.-THE attorney seemed to think q shovel ought to
| have had something to do with it) have been
| making surveys for the Raymond 4 Ely Com.
| pany off and on for the last six months; never
| have been engaged by the month by that CON-
| peny; have examined the open cut through
| from the Panaca shaft to the incline NJ; there is
| q deep cut near the shaft; do not know whether
| it is new cut an old one cleaned out; the cut
from the shaft to the incline is 100 feet long; al
| point 10 is an excavation four feet deep; from
there to the incline NJ the rock in place comes to
the surface; it is my judgment that the course of
| the vein would have been better shown by deeper
| excavations; / took number of samples from
| the cut; they were different in character; Sc
| lected my samples without q glass; took
| the best samples in sight ut the different
| points; l put the ore in clean sacks;
| when the sacks ran out l used paper think that
| an assay can be got from any foot in that cut