The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-02
A THEORY ABOUT C0UCE.
49,
Expert Hand Says There Are Sew
eral and Gives His Own
Idea
Judge Kirkpatrick Asks a Hard
Question About q Geology
ical Formation.
Il WAL Of the Late william Chnmss-
Gro Ad'mitted to Probate In Judge
Bucks Court.

After q breathing spell from last Fri
day forenoon until yesterday morning
the big mining suit Of tho 81. Louis Mining
md Milling company ". the Montana
oomrany. limited, was resumed. The
plaintiff IN still presenting its side Of the
case, which 10 m endeavor to show that the
defendant has taken put from the plain
tiffs ground by means OF undergo ound
workings something like $2.0 O0. 600 worth
OF ore. The cross-examination Of Cnsl
dHnd. ono of the experts. from Butte, by
Judge kirkpatrick was taken up again ut
The morning session y%ceterdny. He was
Questioned az to an open cut which he had
examined several years ago when there was
litigation between the Hopeful md the
Montana company. His recollection was
not good about the existence OF the cut.
He said he had been employed by the Mon
tana company at the time. On his redi.
rect examination by Judge Mcconnell the
witness said he had examined since
tho Adjournment on last Friday the
40O-foot level south from the
Jubilee stope. His observation extended
from the 400-foot south from the end Of
the Jubilee stopa to the end Of tho 400 at
the Nine Hour shaft. At the end OF tho
Jubilee chute the hanging wall is disclosed,
and for a distance OF perhaps thirty or
forty feet it is timbered through there. He
said tie hanging wall was q porphyritic
rock very closely resembling diorite. Be
ginning a. q point about spventy-fve feet
north OF the end OF the Sampson stope the
foot wall IL exposed until tho lateral drift il
reached coming in from the Maskelyne
tunnel. = distance Of about 800 feet. The
vein between shafts Nos. one and WI runs
nearest the foot wall; going south from the
Jubilee chute it mainly runs on tho hang.
ing wall.
Here is . sample of one of the questions
asked the witness: "When the country
was first uplifted. what have you to suy in
regard to its relative height then and now"
This question referred to the country whore
swered: II should say that generally there
was nm apex that was very much higher
than the present. We might say tina the
gulch or basin in there would now OCCUPY
q point TINT originally was in all probabil-
NY the hiIhest oint in the county," Hero
is another: What would be the condition
OF the rock that now appears on the sur
face whom it WAS SO much higher; that is,
when il had above it a large amount of ma
terial?" MIR. Hand replied: II cannot an
swer That question very we'll; I don't know"
He was further questioned rs to the def
n'tion OF a hanging wall, and replied that
1T would be the lower limit of the country
rock everything the vein. Flo said be would
hardly include gouge as part of the wall,
but would generally consider it rart of the
vein material. As to the creation of goupe
he said there were various ideas. He be-
lleved himself thnt the congo in question
was created by the movement Of the hang
ing wall on the mass unde meath; he said it
WINS n grinding away OF a portion of the
vein material.
a.. Dunahee, who has charge Of the BIZ
Metallic mill at Philipsburg. WINS the next
Witness produced by the plaintiff. He has
examined mines in Cd Mexico, Arizona.
Nevada and California. The openings
which he entered to make his examinations
were the Apex shaft, 1t. Louis shalt, the
thirty foot level and che Cruise level. His
testimony was in line with much that has
been brought out by the plaintiff. When
court adjourned G. s. Batterman. of Colo
RADIO. was giving the results of his ex-
animation of the workings. Ills direct ex-
animation will be resumed this morning.