The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-15
lie FOUND COLORS.
DIR. Everette's Testimony On
the Mcbride Claim.
OVER THREE MILLIONS IN IT.
Ten Pans Show an Average Result OF
Eighteen Cents Per Cubic
Yard.

1sAstAAA10hiaA tlS ttSuke, y geOtOElst. ufUeT~
aiogist and chemist of many years expe-
rience and recognized scientific standing,
gave interesting expert testimony in the
trial of the Mcbride contest case in the
land Office yesterday afternoon.
The forenoon session was occupied with
the examination of William F. Mckay.
He testified that he had prospected on the
claim and worked FIVE pans taken from
different places In each pan he found
from two to four colors. He said the
ground was worthless for all agricultural
purposes.
DR.. Everette was placed on the stand
about O'Clock, and his examination con-
sumed the remainder of the day. The
doctor stated that he had studied geology
and mineralogy and the cognate sciences
for the past seventeen years. He had Wis
tied every mineral region in the Western
states and territories. and made an explora-
ton OF the entire length of the Yukon
river. He had pursued his studies in the
United States army for two years in Mon
tana, Idaho, Colorado. Washington and
Oregon. and had practically made a per-
sonal examination of the entire geologic
structure of North America. He stated
that last week, Tuesday, he was
engaged by Mr.. Mcbride to make
an examination of the claim and
report his professional opinion of the
mineral deposits existing there. He de-
voted day TO perfecting the claim. He
made ten tests of dirt washed from ten
different places along the bed of the gulch.
on the side bill and on the hilltop He
dug into the solid gravel from two to four
feet for each painful, carried it to the creek,
washedit carefully and put the black sand
in'Q<f1ais and carefully sealed them. He
Old everything personally, refusing all as
Dsistance. He ascertained by weighing the
weight of cubic yard OF gravel, and
weighed each painful to ascertain the num-
Der of panfuls to the yard. The average of
the ten tests was 1884 cents per cubic
yard OF gravel. In no pan did he find
over two colors of visible gold. In nearly
every pan specimens of quartz with free
gold were found. Platinum, silver and
iridosmine were also found Iridosmine is
worth one and one-half times
more than gold. and platinum about half
as much. He considered from the tests
made that the gold was distributed with
tolerable uniformity throughout the gravel
deposit. If the gravel deposit contained
5000, 900 cubic yards, as estimated by the
city engineer of Tacoma, DR.. Egerette
stated that the value of the claim would be
about $3.o40.000. Allowing that $4,000
plant would be required, the cost of wash
ing the gravel he estimated at SIX cents per
cubicyard for the first 1000, 600 yards. After
that the cost would be very much less. pos
sibly not over TWO cents per yard. He
stated that the North Bloomfield mine
paid dividend on yield of only 90 cents
per yard. In New ,aland the average is
only about six cents per yard.
In his testimony he incidentally made
some statements regarding the mineral
prospects of Western Washington. He
had found many fine indications of gold
quartz in the Olympic mountains. He had
received recently specimen of quartz
from this region that was SO rich that he
refused to assay it for the reason that there
could not be a great deal of it SO rich. The
specimen would show over 500 900 per ton
He now has party out in the Olympics
prospecting, and has himself done much
prospecting in this great rendezvous
as explorer. The formation of the dis
puted claim, he said, was a glacial drift.
The entire region about here is similar
formation, in a sort OF bowl, bounded by
the Cascades, the spurs of Mount Rainier,
the black hills back of Olympia, and the
OIvnlDlC UlOuutdtUo. ne ldQ recently 70
ceived specimen from near the head OF
the Puyalup river, from the reservation,
that assayed 81 900 per ton. DR.. Everette
was cross-examined by Colonel j. c.
Haines The cross-examination did not
elicit any new facts. The doctor admitted
that he had not made as thorough an ex-
animation of the claim as he would have
done had he been fixing its value for a pur-
chaser. The state was represented by At
torney-General Jones, Colonel J. C. Haines,
M. H. Calkins and Prosecuting Attorney
Smell. of Pierce county.
McBride's case is conducted by Edward
Van Sias. the celebrated mining law
yer of the Black Hills, and C. w.
Holcomb, of Washington City. and Paul
d'Heirry. The contest viii last several
weeks and will be bitterly fought,
Colonel Paul Henry. who has a quarter
of the same section, and has the same con-
test before him, returned yesterday from
Tacoma. whittier he had been with a party
of experts, whom he was taking upon his
claim to make examinations. He states
that he found the county commissioners
and armed deputy sheriffs in possession,
who ordered him not to come upon the
land. He told them that he was going on
il he had to GO on by order OF court. They
concluded not to resist by force the adj
vance of his experts. and they are now on
the land making their examinations.