The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-05
THE DRUM LUMM0N LODE
Prof Churchill Believes the Apex
Of 1t Is Found in the ST.
Louis.
The Cruise Level Is Traced True
North to the Hopeful
Shaft.
The Mining Expert Draws Vertical Soc
,Ions to illustrate tho Neln al
I'll. Mining Expert Draws Vertical Soc
lions to illustrate tho Ncln AZ
He Saw IL.

lions To AllusNThto - 'SA
He Saw II.
Prof. Churchill left the stand yesterday
forenoon in the big mining suit, Du' may
be recalled again. Dutin0 ths afternoon
some miners who have worked on the 81.
I,ouis claim we're examined. About ten
minutes before count adjourned DIR. u. y.
Swallow was on the stand. His testimony
promises 10 be very interesting. In MS
direct examination Prof. Chutchlil WAS
asked the following question: "From your
examination of these workings both III the
81. Louis and the Montana company
properties what have You got TO say AZ 10
the identity of the st. Louis ground with
the Drum Lummon?" The witness an
swered that he believed the apex found IN
the St. Louis claim ia the apex OF the Dram
Iummou lode, so called. my reasons for
.hat conclusion," hs said. ''are several.
First, ] find in the st. Louis mining loae
claim the apex of the Drum Lummon looe.
l find a hanging wall; l find Il foot wall; l
find g hanging wall in the shaft. lhae
wall was followed directly and indirectly.
it was taken as a guide, and that wall was
traced until the shaft reached tho Cruise
level. The Cruise level is one OF TIC
largest levels which has been driven
by the Montana company. and
I can trace that level; have
LONE SO, true north to the Hopeful SHAFT
which is a shaft passing through from the
Cruise level up into the Hopeful g 'ouna to
the surface, which claim is a rortlon OF the
end extension Of the St. Louis and contains
the apex of the Drum Lummon lode. from
the Hopeful shaft l have followed the Drum
Lummon to q point moth of the intersec-
tion of the Cruise adit with the Cruise level.
"From that point / pass down the Samp-
son Slope to the No. . A, aud from there
III, ouch another incline-wlnze--l have
passed to the 400 foot level. AT no time
have l been out of sight of either the foot
or hanging wall of the Drum Lummon lode.
and from where / entered the AGO foot level
I have walked along that level and have
seen the foot wall for a long distance, and
The cross-euts of the hanging wall were the
Same characteristics that l have seen, where
crossings have been made on the Cruise
level, and where slopes have been upTalsed
and ore has been extracted from those
slopes along the Cruise. ! find the same
characteristic in the bearing portion of thu
lead on the 400 that l do on the Cruise and
in these levels here. In other words, W.
have made a continuous wall connection OF
both foot and hanging, either or both, from
ING lode claim down to the 400 foot level,
and from the 400 foot level north to shaft
No, l, there 800 feet. and south some 4OO OF
800, and down shaft No. 2, which is at thu!
point !, 200 feet. and from level 4oO througf
500. 600 and 800, l find the same character
istio slopes, the same hanging wali ano .nt
same foot wall, with the same marks. tho
same corrugations, the same minute stris
on the rock, and the same composition
when the portion of the lode is exposed BY
levels at relatively the same distance from
ore chutes. find also that this vein is {
large vein and a wide vein, and it is imma'
terial in regard to the composition OF the
vein. and that the facts are that it is wide
where the vein is barren as we'll as it IL
wide where the vein is mineIaliZed with
pRy ore chutes.
II find on the Cruse level a stope of ore
which ia over thirty-hve feet in width. the
ore of which lies against the hanging wall,
/ find another portion of the mine on the
4OO-foot level whore the Sampson stopt
likewise lies against the foot wall, and ir
the Sampson atope / find the ore upon the
foot wall. l end a crosscut made ninet,
feet north of shaft No. 2 in which l find the
quartz, which is practically q portion o,
the Sampson store, low grade but nlmos
pure silica. not intermlxed with other ma
terial. l find the quartz in the center O
the lode; but in every case with the excep.
ton Of where there may be u granite foo
wall along the lode, l find that We have the
snme selvage and the same on both the foo
and the hanging, not IN amount. but thu
same material and the same situations OF
Ahn -on frI in 1nirr eorfh frnpc tn
40O-foot level the ore upon the hanging wal
Of the vein. So here We have it in tn
Sampson stope or the foot wall, an
there wa happen to find pay or
on the hanging wall. In short We find tn
vein in places filled from wall to wall, til
maximum of nearly 400 feet wide, of pa
ore. We find the pay ore at dlfferen
levels on the hanging and hen on the foo
end then We find ore, not a a good grade,
the center, and then between the ore chute
we find long stretches Of what il from th
miners standpoint barron vein matter, br
it has the Same characteristics that tn
vein quartz has, and then in the pay chute
we find, passing through this barren zoa'
the lines which are sometimes marked q
strongly as MANY walls, not in this min,
but in other mines, we ind them mineta
lied. We find these same lines and eros
heade. miners cnll them. in the best stop,
the Montana company has ever had. v
find these same lines going through fro
foot to hanging wall in the barren portion
ut is the same characteristic element g
hibited in the pay chutes IA there 10 in II
barren portion. The bsl rem portion is |
wider on the average, or quite as vic
as where tue ore chutes take place. 1t
very strong and quite uniform and fail
la! ge assure. 1t will average fully thin
feet in width from end to end OF the claim
Prof. Churchill then drew vertical q,
tious illustrating the vein. The first g,
tion is down the st. Louis shaft to the AZ
The witness said that between the C ,
level and tho 400, a vertical distance
a out 2G3 feet, there was some hea
stopping done, q large amount of ore c
tracted al and near north of the pc,
whe e the Cruise adit strikes the Ctuse II
mel. He said he could not got into
Jubilee No. 2 chute.
On his cToss-exaLninRtiOn Prof. Church
was i~nterroRated rs to the Castletown lo
He stated TINT he had passed through
diff, or WAS taken through IL, and v
shown what they called tho Castleto
lode. In regard TO it's position, he said
did not know. He SAID he did not rect
niZo it az q separate and distinct lode fr
the Drum Lumtnon, because he did
know exactly where be WAS when 90.
tn ouah that drift. He did not KIN
whether he WAS taken to another lode
not. He said he WAS taken through a d
and WAS told that lac was on another 10
he could not tell whether it was or not;
knew that it was in the neiehborhood
acme prhrty hAs IN tasfifripo .,,,