Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-08
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SAN Francisco, August Z.
In the great case of the Eureka Con-
solidated vs.. the Richmond, Wilson
opened this morning for the defend
ant. His argument was able and con.
sisted mainly in reply to the leading
points made by the attorneys for the
plaintiff. He spoke until the hour Of
recess, holding closely the attention of
the Court and the large crowd of spec
tators.
In the afternoon Wilson continued
his argument upon the law points of
the defendants side, and he said the
title to the Potts chamber was only
effected by the Lookout deed, which
could only he maintained upon the
Champion title by reason that the
ledge might run through the barren
limestone In the latter claim. He ex-
planned the acts of Congress which
recognize and provide for intersection
and crossings OF lodges and their prox.
unity, and showed how the law gave
to the locator of a ledge a right to fol ow
IL. He contended that lodes never
come sin ely, and iDstanced The custom
OF miners that when they fiud one
lode they always look for anot her. He
explained that The force that made one
fissure could make a half-dozen more
and that when others were broken
they should be separate ore bodies.
Miners consider them segregated and
so work them. lie thought the Court
should hold that where separated by
lines of demsrcation they are separate
ore todies. The practice of miners, he
said, was better than the theories Of all
the experts. He quoted the laws of the
mining districts to enforce his arg
ment, n said the theories of the
Champion, Mammoth, Buckeye and
other Ruby Hill mines had no connec-
ton with the theory Of plaintiffs ex-
perts a. TO there being three element
ary depo>i's, which he controverted
with a theory of his own, and then
proceeded L dissect the evidence of
the experts, particularly Raymond and
Hunt, in a style not altogether fi,tter.
ing to the intelligence and knowledge
of these gentlemen. He concluded at
a quarter TO four. Judge Hoffman
asked defendants counsel what they
fltlIilFu III ibt ETOuUus anu was NIONll
that they claimed the ledge named in
their patent, and its dip, which includ-
ed the Potts chamber. Wren then be
gan. He said there were certain facts
that both sides agree to, viz: the con
dition of the ground underlying aud
everything the country rock; that the
rock once laid in the ocean and was
raised by some great force; that n ifs
sur vas formed; hat the rock was
metamorphosed; that a decompo,it ion
OF ore in the limestone took place; and
that the limestone was lot "A lode until
the ore was deposited in it. As to the
number and direction of the assures,
witnesses were not agreed on, but the
ore came in solution from below which
was afterwards oxydized and deposited
between the different strata. In MAIN
tanning this theory, said Wren, Hunt
and Raymond state these ore bodies
resemble none others in the world, but
plaintiffs made "A comparison between
Tue Com>tock and what they termed
the great Eureka lode. although James,
n OF the Witnesses, states that there
was little or no resemblance between
them. Wren then proceeded to show
that there we're entirely different for
nations surrounding the two lodes.
The Coinstock, he said, was one of the
great fissure veins OF the world, with
characteristics so different from the
Eureka that no marked resemblance
between them could be found. The
ore n gangue of the two were entire
ly different. Wren, too, paid his re-
spects To the experts, quoting the Ian
guage of Judge Field at the beginning
of the trial-tbat experts may be al
lowed to change their opinions NICE a
week IL the facts seemed to warrant it.
The Court adjourned until to-mor
row, when Wren closes for defendant,
Mesick following for plaintiff.