Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-24

Exporting Is becoming quite a feature
OF the many cases coming up for trial
in the District Court. Mining experts
are OF course the a~ristocracy Of the
profession, and command a larger fee
than any other branch Of the business,
AS witness the amounts paid TO CLAIR
ence King, Professor Raymond, S;erry
Hunt, w. ). Reyes and other distin.
guisbed biologists who figured so con.
spicuously in The famous trial. The
fees disbursed to the eminent scientists
were enormous in the aggregate, and
in no instance fell below 5000; but
when 1t is remembered that equally
learned and distinguished rock sharps
testified to a Numerically opposite
state of facts as existing in the same
formation, and that their theories were
made TO fit the case of their employers,
It will be seen that the strain on their
scientific attainments was worth a
handsome compensation. This was
notably the situation in regard TO one
OF the o distinguished of the geol-
ogists who explored the depths Of
Ruby Hill, and who found, much to
his establishment, no doubt, that in n
lapse of four years the lode had
changed its characteristics from a true
lode, or contact, to an Insignificant
pipe vein, Of asceriainable depth-the
walls that he found at a former period
having entirely vanished from view,
leaving no tangible evidence behind of
their previous existence. This re-
markable phenomenon could doubt
less lie intelligently explained by the
n~ew-fangled doctrine OF catastrophism
aud the evolution of the environment.
In the brief period elapsing between
The two trials he no doubt found that
one OF those catastrophes-so graphic.
ally described in a Yale lecture-oc-
CURED, and evoluted the formation
from a contact To a pipe vein, oil, 10
use his own language, THAT there was
a moment OF great catastrophe, which
translated into the speech OF life, be-
came "A moment OF creation, when out
OF plastic formations something ne xer
and better suited to the easel was
called into being" IL must he IA NOR
Iifyiug result for these experts to- see
their fine spun theories and bewilder-
ing conclusions set aside by The shrewd
Judge, n The practical, common
sense miners view obtain in their
stead. Judge Fields decision can be
ciphered down To five words, and
those are, that ''end lines must be re-
spected." We have wandered away
from nj subject. in considering the
mining experts. What we started in
TO say was that a feature of the pro-
ceedings in law suits is expert lestI-
mony. The mining experts had their
day during the big mining suit. A note
case, some months ago, called out a
o astonishing mount of expert
testimony on individual signatures
and the characteristics of the average
sign manual. In "A case lately tried
medical experts was the feature, al
though expert stage drivers divided
the honors with Them. In the case of
Hamilton and Burton, yesterday, the
jewelers. and money.loaners came into
court as experts on values, and OF
their testimony hinged the degree of
crime and The tate OF the prisoners,
The difference of a few dollars in value
making i: either petty or grand larceny.
IL will be seen that at times the fate of
individuals rs we'll ~ corporations de-
pend on expert testimony.