The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-18
FINANCE AND MINING.
The Big Mining Suit IN the
First District.
ORE AND BULLION RECEIPTS.
Judge Powers on Dips, Spurs anu
AngIes-The Alice-The $40"
mont-BusiDess Notes
The Big Mining Suit

PROyO Oct. II, 1900
The First District Court under Judge
Powers ,.as conducted here, is sleepy
affair compared to the Third unoer
Judge Zane. but at present before thlS
Court is being heard case the lnlpoi'
ance of which has probably not been
equalled by any Zane has sat on VI
NAV have to sit on for years 10 co1ne'
Your correspondent sat in the court
house here for an hour yesterday alter-
mon. while Professor Morton and Judge
Bennett went in somnolent manner
over the huge drawings, maps ana ula-
grams stretched on black beard before
the court: the court itself was IN SIDE
room engrossed in the examination OF
a fine shot gun, which it seemed to view
with the eye of connoisseur, and there
was asleepy Hollow air upon every tning
around which seemed vastly infectious
TO iudge. clerks, attorneys, and VIII
nes.es alike. The present inattention'
Of course. is due to the fact that the
ground Is now being gone over LOT tne
second time, owing to the strange Ioss
of Wlnn's notes, and that JUDGE toTeit:S
is supposed to have all the Iacts inue sl
blv imDressed upon his vast cereDrum.
Reoarding the loss of these notes, there
is no small amount of conjecture ana
antic1nation prevalent here. Ine
cbarue that there was ne accident IN
their disappearance is made not at all
ouietlv. and it is even rumored thaC
offers have been made to recover tnem
on certain conditions: ot
The array of legal talent as well as OF
EXPERT testimony is one that has sell
dom been marshalled in the courts.
Jenny, Blake, Keys, Daggett, heau,
Morton. Palmer and others are mere lot
bOth sides, and the Eureka have char-
tered an entire hotel for the accommo-
Sation of witnesses and principals on
their side. John Beck and his aids are
Guartered with Judge Dusenberry and
at various other places. Each side pays
IFS experts from $15 to $25 per day terms
ON which most of these gentry would be
willing to see the Beck Eureka case &C.
emmy the remainder of their natural eX'
istences, As far as one can Judge IRON
street talk here, there is an extreme
bitterness of feeling between the partle:
! litigant. The Beck party are not at al
sparing of the terms which they bestoV
: upon Packard and the rest OF the Eureki
ilk, and if all the charges they make 0
how the Beck property mas peer
''gouged" in the bowels OF the earth D.
the Eureka should prove true, it car
! not be held that the terms are IN
J appropriate. AS might have bee
expected of judge reared
Michigan, Powers has demon
strated-so the street folk say
that he knows about as much concern
ing dips, spurs. angles and the forms
ton of ore bodies as a Ute India
= knows about hydrostatics. There haY
J been several little bouts between hi1
and the attorneys, and Judge Suthe
land, it is said, has done some very VI
mistakably straight talking TO u
n bench. Arthur Brown. 1t is also sal.
. has made the biggest effort OF his lie
questioning and cross queSuonln
and a habitue of the court room relate
that he wound Professor Keys up
thoroughly in his cross-examinatlo
that that Gentleman retired muC
= doubling whether he ought to be classC
as an M. E. or an y. q. The who
thing will be resumed Monday morniI
and there seems no indication OF an
thing like a conclusion: for weeks
come: $4,000 is the amount which Il
Beck party claim has been gouged fro
them by their opponents
Regarding the general situation Bra
streets says: Jobbers, manufacture
agents and the commercial classes &c
orally, as reported by wire to Bra
streets this week, very generally recc
nize not only that the fall squirt in bu
ness has about spent its force, but 6
inclined to concede that there is
likelihood whatever of boomthis yet
With the exception of a few southe
cities, where receipts of cotton have be
heavier and where trade has been sti
ulated thereby, there is a notewort
check to the late freer purchases
staple goods. This holds true except
St. Louis, where an exposition and oil
special influences have contributed L
movement OF merchandise quite as
as previously. At Boston money is ca
and some lines of trade are quiet
while a few are active There. as at