Arizona silver belt., 1884-09-13
THE MACK MORRIS MINE.

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 The suit in relation to the Mack Morris property wherein Ford H. Rog- CTS, Joseph F. Navarro, Clinton B. Fisk, Charles H. Fowler and the re- presentatives of Andrew V. Stout as defendants were charged with fraud and restitution of certain monies asked, is practically decided is favor of the defendants. It was alleged that the defendants "became suddenly rich by the sale of stock" when in fact not one ot the gentlemen named sold a dollars worth of stock. They have theirs yet as the stock book of the company will show. The 100 shares held by the plaintiff was part of the stock originally owned by Major Bald win, who, at the time of his selling the mine, stipulated that upon the formation of the company he was to receive 49,900 shares, and dld so. At the trial of the case in New York before Judge Cullen, So weak was the showing of the plaintiffs law yers that the plaintiff himself did not appear, nor could he be found; the attorneys for the defence did not call witness but submitted the case without argument. Plaintiffs law yers did show by their ow, witness that the mine was very valuable one and worth much more money than was paid for it. The judge decided to have the case go before the General Term, in the mean time staying all further proceedings.
 The product of the mine from the date of the company's purchase until Dec. 1882, when they ceased working it, amounted to $647,574S5. There is no satisfactory evidence that the Mack Morris mine is not as valuable proper ty to-day as when first entered upon by the Mack Morris company. We believe that it is and have heard min ing experts express the same opinion. It is above water level, and the ore is of an enduring character, argentifer- ous and antimonious sulphurets. It may be the vein has pinched, or, per haps, slide has occurred, most proba- bly, the latter, the location and work ings being on steep side of the Apa- che mountain where an upheaval would be most likely to dlslodge the upper part of the ledge and move it south into the valley. Some contend that the workings were never on the main vein; that the ledge is further north in the side of the mountain, and that it can be reached in a convenient distance by drifting north from the main shaft. Others contend, that the Mack Morris vein is not the principal vein, it's course being almost east and west, while the general course of the mineral belt running through that district, is of a northeasterly and southeasteriy trend. It may be that the Mack Morris is a crop-veln, or spur of the mother-ledge, which is evidently more to the northward. In the underground works, the vein was lost below the 600 foot level, but it is quite likely, that dislocation had not been noticed in time and that in con- sequence, the work was done in the 1 wrong direction. Neither was the mine underground explored by sufh- cient cross-cuts towards the north; in fact, if we are rightly informed, the cross-cutting was done towards the
 outh, where nothing could be expect ed, in the ordinary course of reason ing. Taking it altogether, it seems not at all likely, that true Assure vein in granite, or at least felspathic rock, with such ores as the Mack Mor- ris has, namely, argentiferous and an tlmonious sulphurets, should peter out at the depth of 600 feet. while, to that depth, the walls have been so perfect as in this mine. Whatever merit the last administration may have had, we doubt if the mining engineering has been done with the requisite the oretical knowledge of vein phenome- ma. Such veins as the Mack Morris has, were never known to give out at that depsh, and further explorations in the right direction, would doubtless prove this miHc to be uS valuable as | # ever. was,