The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
An IMPORTANT DAY
The Mayflower People Still Pill
ing up Testimony.
THREE WITNESSES EXAMINED.
They Ali Trace the Apex to the Fafrview-Ihe
POrphyry Dyke and the
Upraises.

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POrphyry Dyke and the
Upraises
| The Mayflower people were again at the
bat when the trial of the great mining case
was resumed in Judge Zene's court yester-
day morning, and they continued to knock
the ball all over the field. Better progress
was made than on any day since the trial
began, the examination of three important
witnesses being completed. Their testi-
mony on all material points was simply
corroborative of that given by the wit
nesses who preceded them. All agreed that
1t was bedded contact vein, with foot
wall o quartzite and @ hanging wall of
blue, sparry lime; that the apex was in the
talrvlew, and that the defendants had a
continuous vein from that point on up
through the Court raise and past the tri-
angle; that the porphyry dyke, if it ex-
lsted dld not In any way interfere with the
vein, as was shown by its existence on both
sides OF the porphyry. Some testimony
was also given as to the amount and value
OF the ore taken from beneath tho
| triangle. The first witness called was
THOMAS KEARN,
broad shouldered, rudy faced young
man and typical miner He declined to
"theorize.n but went ahead and stated cold
facts based on personal observation, which
materially stiffened the defendants side.
Pariey l.. Williams took the witness over
the ground foot by foot and tried to make
the read as rocky as possible. A more able
thorough and exhaustive cross examination
is seldom seen, but it did not shake the wit
ness in the least and kearn emerged from
the ordeal as smiling and unruffied as ever
He testified:
am miner and have followed that bus
mess in. Uintah mining district for ten
years. | have had charge OF the work in
thlSground Tor the defendants since 1855
The Mayflower shaft was sunk in Feb
ruary, 1889, and the vein was encountered
in April following. 1t was contact vein,
with quartzite footwall and hanging
wall of lime. He called the quartzite the
footwall because the ore made TO 1t in per
maps hundred places, and rested on it.
FOR LONG DISTANCES.
The witness mere gave the strike of the
vein, and enumerated large number of
PAGES where he found the ore in contact
with the quartZite, in some instances for a
distance CT 300 feet. Continuing, the wit
ness said: The quartzite footwall rolls
more or less.
Judge Marshall-Have you any samples
of quar,zite taken from where the ore rests
on it?
The Witness-I have several
Judge Marshall-Have you any samples
taken from where the lime rests right on
the quartZite, showing the contact:
The WlJness-I have.
SAMPLES PRODUCED.
Mr.. kearn here produced number of
large specimens which were passed TO the
jury. After they had Teen carefully ex-
ahmed Juror HARDY handed them to his
honor, who also examined them
Resum!ng again, the witness said: Tho
ore makes to this blue, sparry lime in
places, but it docs not pass beyond it, In
many places 1t eats through the lime up to
the blue Earging wall. In one stone the
ore made up for sixty feet, right through
tic lime.
Judge Marshall-Where is the apex of
the vein.
TIE APEX.
The witness qul ,kly pointed out with his
rule the line of apex, commencing at Pros
pect tunnel ami going en- TO Wiimap's dis
covery, the Road incline, and then on
through the long line OF cuts from to Il,
and tneu to the Fairview, where it aDexed.
What induces you TO believe that is the
line OF apex OF the veip!'
Because, for one thing, it is a culmina-
llOh oI lHlS great UelV- Oh QuhriZllS.'
Did you find The coutact?'
81 did in each cut and place. There is
vein matter in nearly all of them, aud tits
particularly strong in cuts and g."
us 1t the same QuariZtte you have across
the gulch!"
There is no doubt whatever in my mind
but that it is the same"
Have YOU examined the Northland and
Court raises!"
"Yes."
THEY ARE IN THE VEIN.
"Are they in the vein!''
Eyes, SIR"
"Has the Court incline been dropped to
other lime beds than those which it starts
ins'
mo, sir, it continues in the Same bed of
lime that it starts in. We raised and sunk
for blue sparry limo and ouGrtzite and
found both. We did not at any point cut
through the Quarizite. We hnve stripped
the vein for ] 80 feet, and it has not in that
distance departed at any sleeper incline
than the raise itself. The Northi4nd raise
is also in the vein.n
did you notice assure there!"
81 wouldn't call 1t assure al all There
is simply little crack in the BEDDING
plane"
How does the Big incline compare with
the Court upraise for naturalization !'
THE COURT UPRAlsE PROMISES BETTER.
THE Court upraise promises much bet
ter. Near the face we have encountered a
very strong vein, some five feet wide
he witness went on to describe the
similarity of the formations encountered
near the Fairview and those over the hill.
and illustrated everything very clearly by
the sectional maps. Below the APEX in the
Fairview, and on over towards the On
tario, large belt of quartzite was shown
by the Groupings all along.
THAT PoRPHYRY AGAIN.
do you find some porpbyry in the Jen-
ME LndH'