The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-26

is the essential thing. From these
raises. put up by the plaintiff like
lightning rods hunting for the apex, yet
a drift cannot be run west along any
continuous ore streak. Yet the 79A
raise is I'm the body of the lode, accord
ing to our witnesses. The ore is not
cut off.
MIR. Vale aid he had much more
to say, but his time had been limited,
considering that from the beginning
the defendants had followed on ore and
developed the ore bodies. Mr.. Marshall
had alluded with much pathos TO the
fact that the plaintiffs had paid a big
price for the Michael Dewitt mine In
deed? They spent a big price TO ac-
quire the mine for court purposes, to
help win the case and tax through the
courts. IL possible. what the defendants
had developed. The plaintiffs had not
spent one dollar I'm the endeavor to
locate and develop ore bodies. MIR.
Vale spoke one hour and 40 minutes.
Mr.. Lindsay made the closing argu-
ment for the plaintiffs. The case had
been dramatic, he said. There had been
tragedy. Joy and comedy. The dark
visitor had entered the household of n
member OF the jury during the trial.
joy had entered the household of an
other member of the jury in the shape
of the birth of a son. and the comedy
part OF the trial had been furnished by
Mr.. Vale. Very few cases of this char
acter had on the whole been so pleas
antly tried. IL had been tried without
abuse of counsel or witnesses. The
Butte & Boston company is not trying
to crush anybody. IL is fighting for
bare existence. Let IL be established
once in this court that any miner
discovers an ore body and that another
miner above him discovers another ore
body. then the man above comes down
and says, 'Zone-zone-get out of here.
This is "A zone" The speaker had heard
OF a frigid zone, a torrid zone. a tenn
perate zone. but his Is the broad zone.
Never i'm the history OF mining litiga-
ton has a zone been established except
where one kind of rock Is found on one
side. another kim of a rock in the other
wall. and a still different character OF
rock between the walls. But this whole
Butte district is a granite country.
There is no change in the rock. Mr..
Lindsay read from testimony OF
Max BONNER. one OF the
experts. to show that he admitted that
the ore bodies under the Michael Dew
lit surface have all the characteristics
OF separate and distinct veins. Yet we
are told by MIR. Vale and Judge Nc
Hatton tina the windlass vein is only
a dropper. Mr.. Lindsay argued in re-
gard TO his fault. He said the plain
tinfs claim nothing west OF the fault or
i'm the fault. They claim only the YER
tical veins to the east of the fault. The
defendants had no streak of respect
able size leading these veins to an apex
i'm the Rarus ground. o they have
found a ten. or six or ever a four-inch
streak running to a Rarus apex they
would have contented themselves with
a distinct vein claim and would never
have resorted to this ridiculous broad
zone theory. Failing i'm getting an
apex to these veins on the Rarus
ground. they called In their experts To
establish their zone. Much OF the
COUNTRY outside of the zone is more
highly mineralized than that within the
zone. VIII this zon theory be thrown