The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-12
BETTING is ABOUT EVEN
Mr.. Forbis Tangled Up Between
Hanging and Foot Wall.
SLOW PROGRESS Is MADE
Defendants in the Big Mining Case Will
Not Rest Before Monday Night.
Four More Witnesses Are
to Be Heard.

Betting is about even as to whether
or not John Forbis will get over saying
foot wall when he means hanging wall
before the conclusion of the big min
ing trial. Mr.. Forbis is one of the best
mining lawyers in the state, or even
in the country, and is thoroughly post
ed as to everything concerning mine
or the mining business. But thorough
mining lawyer as he is, he cannot get
over saying foot wall when he means
hanging wall and vice versa. The 9th
er lawyers keep tab on him and cor
rect him when he miscalls the wall in
asking a question, but after being cor
rected he will often make the same
mistake in the next sentence, to the
general amusement of the court room
Mr.. Forbis VOWS he is going to call the
wall right before the case is over, but
some of the lawyers are offering odds
that he won't.
Slow progress was made in the min
ing case yesterday. The defendants
will now probably not close their case
before Monday evening. No. 13s eX-
animation was completed yesterday
and No. IA started in but has only fin
ished his direct examination. There
will be four more principal witnesses
son, another celebrated expert; two
miners and probably Mr.. Heinze.
forenoon session will be held to-day
and at noon the case will be adjourned
to Monday. Mr. Lindsay, one of Mr..
Forbs assistants for the plaintiff, has
been laid up for three days with bron-
chitis.
The cross examination or Mr.. Boeh-
mer began with the morning session
hr EnrhiS
You say you spent several weeks in
the examination of the property"
Yes, sir"
Did you go into the snohomish
workings"
Il did not examine them.
Was the vein in the Snohomish
cross-cut all the way"
Il did not examine. 1t would take a
close examination to give an opinion.
Don't you think you should have ex
amined to see if this zone did not con-
+ tinue east into the Snohomish?"
Il could see no reason for so doing
4 What was zone in the Rarus might
become veins in the Snohomish?"
Il have not examined the Snohomish
/ and / see no connection between the
! two"
/ DO you think the Anaconda has the
same zone as the Rarus-a number of
streaks ?"
Yes, sir, a number of streaks with
a naturalization of the country be-
! tween"
4 How wide is the lode?"
II don't know it's entire length, but
there is 100 feet of pay there
Then wouldn't you call that one
| single lode or vein rather than zone?''
NO, / think it should properly be
/ called zone
/ You wouldn't contend that the Rar-
us zone is stopping ore from the foot
to the hanging wall?'
Certainly not
The witness said that the walls of
the zone converge toward the Snohom-
ish 1t varies from $50 to 245 feet III
width. 1t is plainly traceable from the
| hanging to the foot wall. He said that
each of the streaks might be called q
vein. if by itself. but with the other
/ veins so close to it and interlaeing and
I with the country between all mineral
| lied it should be termed a zone. 1t Is
40 feet from the north to the middle
| streak and 100 feet from the middle to
the south streak. Between the north
and middle streaks is mineraliZed coun-
try with stringers in it. Mr.. Boehmel
was required to give very minute de-
tails as to all the stringers. streaks
raises. cross-cuts, levels, walls, etc.
DO you think these faults are abso-
IuteIy without displacement asked
Mr.. Forbis.
NO. sir, they have some displace-
ment"
How much?'
Not more than two or three feet
Not enough to interrupt the vein2'
Very slightly"
How about the Dip"
1T all ffattens a little going westef-
~"
Then you think the same streaks il
the Michael Dewitt pass through tht
faults and through the entire zone?
Not necessarily the same streaks il
all cases. Some streaks play out IN {
short distance and only the more prom
inent streaks run clear through.
why do you not call this north O
connecting vein with the Mountain
View a part of your zone?"
Because instead of lying in the zon
it runs away from the zone.
In other words, zone is prett,
difficult matter to determine, is ii not
1t takes very sharp. close scrutin.
to determine its bounds 2
IT takes a great deal of development
work to accurately determine II
bounds"
The plaintiffs contributed an addition
70 the defendants model, constructs
Of celluloid, showing some of the Penn
svlyania workings and a vein on tn
900 level of the Pennsylvania.
Suppose such vein exists in thi
position." asked Mr.. Forbis. shown
10 per cent. copper, what would yo
say as to its being a part of your ION
also?'
4 would say that it is probably an
other connecting vein and not really
part of the zone
Wouldn't your hanging wall shu
off from the zone such a vein if it eS
ists2'
There has not been deXelopmeH
enough in that portion of the mine
show | have no opinion on the mat
I ter,
Isn't il true too. that there Is ne
development enough TO show Whef
your hanging wall is on the 90o2'
THAT might be so, too
Then isn't all your zone theor
merely suppostion based on very il