Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-11-17
A COLD DAY.
The Influenza strikes the Court

mining trial. The big court
room was but indifferently warmed
and the jury huddled together for
consolation aud caloric. The pa
per hanger who had dressed the in
terror of the Temple of justice with
highly colored paper assured the
county that the bright colors would
have a warm effect, but no such re,
suit was noticed. Almost every
| body had bad colds. and at times
! tn chorus of coughing sounded like
| q lot of shale sliding 'own q foot
! wall of old red sandstone. Every
body moro or less felt the depress-
ing influence of the lowering
weather. and when the gloomy ex
perts threw chunks of geological
information at the spectators many
Of them went out in the hall to cx-
ercise themselves and get warm.
OF course one of the favored NOR
tas of the court was Judge Boalt.
AS he fitted about the court Judge
Mesick looked at him with a hun
CRY, envlous look as if he wanted to
rip some of the flesh from Boalt's
bones and hang them OF his own.
Boalt is the very personification of
good nature, good conscience (rare
. lsw:eG ana good living. His
face is intellectual and handsome,
something such a face as Henry
Irving, the actor, might have if he
quit running round New York with
Billy Florence and ate more. Boalt
is an old Austin man who left Ne
vada for bigger field, and is
handsomer man than Heydenfelt
although not so well shaped. Yes
terdsy somebody, who was anxious
to get point, on the legal crowd
asked an Austin man what was
Judge Boats strong suit and the
reply was.
Hes hat anything"
In the present case he is retained
for the Holmes interest.
Yesterday Was all consumed in
the examination-direct and cross
of expert Raymond, and the end is
not vet. He consumed about four
hours, ts'king q steady stream wi b
hardly break. in explanation f
his sne-ledge theory. 1t is yet. to
be demonstrated what eff Ct his
theories will have on the minds of
the jury. In the afternoon his
cross examination by Mr.. Wren
was commenced. It was soon clio
tied that his examination of the
Northern Belle aud Holmes mines
did not occupy more than fifteen
days altogether. In May last he ex
pIored the levels, slopes and wines
of the Belle down to the disputed
GROUND for five days, and then in
formed the officer of the Holmes
that the ledge in the hot
stone was the same as that in the
patent survey of the Belle. He
his entire confidence
in his own ability as mining en-
gineer by asserting that he was
fully competent to give such an I'M
qualified opinion, notwithstanding
the brevity of his examination and
The extended and complex nature
IF the workings that he in
spected. and the different kinds
Of rock and ore that they revealed.
After his May visit he spent ab mt
\ week in a further inspection Of the
mines during the past month. He
that there were at
east three sep .rate veins of ore in
what he calls the Northern Belle
belt. separated nearly
heir whole length by rock which if
would not pay to take
nut, bot claimed that even if these
7eins were separated By country
'ock in place it would not disprove
lis one ledge theory. 1t remains
o be seen how successfully he can
his position to day under
he hot shot of the opposition cross
A Valuable Property.