The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-07
TAKING ANOTHER REST,
The St. Louis Montana Companies
Mining Suit Adjourned Until
To- Morrow.
Charles Mayer Test!fles About
Sinking tho moline to the
Cruise Level
Additional Testimony by Prof. Churchill
About Hts Examination Made ON
Thursday Mt Marysville.

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Thursday Mt Marysvills.
1t ia q tedious trial In the circuit court
and yesterday every one connected with
the mining suit felt relieved whom the
conrt adjourned ut $50 p. m. until 10 q. M.
tomorrow, At the forenoon session Judge
w. E. Cullen. of the defendants counsel.
asked for an order to open the level rum
ming north from the 1T. Louis moline, aud
permission to make a survey OF shaft No. !
on the north end OF the St. Louis claim;
also to open the 3O.foot level under the col
lar of the incline going north, and Il survey
Of H.. The order was granted by the court.
the defendant offering no objection.
Charles Mayer. the foreman of the st.
Louis Mining company. was on the stand
nearly all day. He has been acquainted
with the st. Louis claim since 1873 and has
been the foreman since the organization of
the company. He ave a history of the
sinking of the Incline to the Cruse level.
1--WE sunk the intersection down following
the vein until we got down about 23O or 24O
feet, and we had reason to believe that the
Montana company were encroaohing ON the
st. Louis claim, and we wanted to strike
into their level, and wo sunk down, and
then we went back and made surveys and
got the level that We thought 1t would be
on. Previous to that though We RIM this
crosscut in north, thinking va could inter
sect the level, and We did not find it there,
and We came back and run another CROSS
cus thinking the level had probably gone
behind the shaft, and we game to granite
here, and were satisfied that it was country.
We knew from reports. from what We had
heard from the men, that the Cruise Lowell
WINS in slate, and when we struck this gran
ito country we thought We were on the
wrong track, and so we started in and run
this level further north, ind sunk q winze
ind made a raise some twelve or fifteen
feet, thought it might ,un above it behind
the shaft, but ws could not find it there,
then We started a crosscut east across the
vein, across the filling. got in about
twenty-five feet and could not find it. =.
Right at this ONT We had some quartz
etriated in the rock filling, and wo thought
IL must be further still and We kept Oh
working and struck ii ut this point. The
hanging wall is on tho west aide of the
G use level. We struck the hanging wall
before we struck the level, they wore carry
ing the hanging wall Of our vein. for the
foot wall of the Cruise level. When we
sunk this shaft we sunk down on the foot,
and we were using machines and we broke
she foot wall. Before l left for the states
We had our moline about twcnty feet below
gone about six or eight months. they sunk
Il to tho bottom. The distance &C oss from
the foot to the hanging wall Of tho bottom
of the st. Louis incline la about tfty-tve
or sixty feet to the cross cut. We have
found the hanging wall perfectly in nl the
fy.uca ante down the incline ahpft from the
hop down to the 1916 foot. In cross-cut six
keen we have the hanging wall and the foot
wall, and we nave I think about thirty feet
of the vein material, filling, quartz that
] have prospected just the ssme Us n PROF.
pector would, tried it with the pan and
found gold. opened this prospect a year
ago and sincs then We have made 1t deeper.
and disclosed the vein, disclosing vein fill
[ng all through it,"
Prof. A. d. Churchill went out to Mnrys-
vile Thursday nnd made another examine
hon of the 1t. Louis claim. He examined
The ground between the st. Louis incline
md the northern end of the claim. lie
was recalled and examined Us to portions
which he had not previously testified about.
He said. II trace from the PORTION of the
wall 100 feet or SO north of the main incline
shaft OF the St. Louis a continuous ne to
he north end of the st. Louia claim. When
particularly examined the cut before
there were one or two connections not
made. biuce then that ground has been
broken in the cut. and there is a continu-
Pus line from the shaft to the north end;
Ind throughout that distance thete is a
t%ontinuous wall shown. In connection
With Mr.. Parks and ono assistant l made a
urvey from which the plating on the map
vas done, and this survey was by co-ordi-
lates made f ON the eide line of the Mar
pe Henri and st. Louis. AT every one of
hese ten points the survey was
made by co-ordinates from the side
inc bounding the st. Louis and the Mar
lie Heart used as II datum line. These CO.
-dinates wero mazda ten feet apart. and
rhere they interseoted the foot wall the
lip WAS taken.
II found after this measurement was
nade that n projection, made not by tho
race of a vertical plane paassd through the
orth end line of tho st. Louis. hut prao-
ically at right angles TO the strike of the
Gin. would show on the surface the same
ridth. the same widening, AS l find on the
O0-foot level at and near shaft No. 2; md
will be seen that the general strike of
his wall and of the htex aa exhibited by
his ! ink streak correspond to the general
trikc that we find i'll the 400. O level.
hat. together with tho fact that l have
aoed the foot wall clenr down to the 400
Dot Level, and continuously from this shaft
, the north end line, and from tho shaft as
NJ AS this cut to the south. finding the
me strike AZ l find In the {. use levs or
le hanging wall. the same strike that l
nd In the 400, generally speaking.
nd likewise of the other levels
Glow; that with the characteristic
( the rock. with what l think
know about tho foot WALL feel now at
Plutely positive that the 81. Louis Minine
onpnny has the apax Of the foot wall
,roughout tho entire length of tina g,ounds,
ON their incline hosting shaft to the
orth end"
On his cross-examinatlon Prof. Churchill
lid when he made the survey on Thursday
D finished it about seven in tho evening.
9 was asked if he undo stood that no had
le apex of an ore body in the north end of
40 st. Louis, and answered. "Iko apsx of
10 ore body is where tho orc ceases TO ex-
:. whether it oeases below the ground or
tho surfnoe."
And the npex OF the vein is where the
lin ceases to have any materinl?"
mo cir. not at ALL"
IA barren, empty. oreleas vein has an
pex just as we'll as.n mineral bearing
le?"
Certainly"
IN THE SUPREME COURT.
he Montana Union Railway Company
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