The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-02
THE JURY A GLEE CLUB
One Way the Unfortunates Have
of Killing Time.
THEY REGISTER A KICK
Resumption of the Case of E. Rollins
Morse Against the Montana Ore
Purchasing Company-The
Defense Opens It's Case.

yesterday morning. Lawyers, witness
es, detectives and spectators paused in
the hall to hear the last of the sweet
refrain. Even Judge Knowles listened
| with quizzical smile on his face be-
fore he called court to order.
1t was the jurymen who sang the old
song, for they have to amuse them
selves in some way, and w. d. Fenner,
| who possesses one of the finest tenor
| voices in the city, has organized the
| jury into a glee club, and IL the i'm
prisoned men find their situations and
| their business gone they will be able
/ to go about the state and get paying
audiences to listen to the singing of the
glee club jury in the celebrated case of
IL. Rollins Morse VS.. the Montana Ore
| Purchasing company.
The jury made kick yesterday
against the fact that it gets no exercise
and that it has to sleep on hard beds
The judge promised to have these
| things remedied.
When the case was resumed yester-
day morning Carl Fl. Hand, the civil
engineer, was put on the stand for fur
Their cross-examination. He was asked
to give an estimate of the cost of run
ming his lease adjoining the Michael
Dewitt. He found from his books that
the disbursements from July to Nov.
II, when the lease was stopped, to be
$32,9i7. OF the above the expenses for
mining, leaving out extraordinary ex-
penses, were $2S,015.15. They extracted
| during that time 11,775 tons of ore.
which would make the average cost
for ton of ore $23S. Taking the period
from July to Dec. 81, when the books
were closed, the cost was S2.5S per ton
No extracting of ore was permitted
after Nov. II. If so, 1900 tons could
have been added to the total amount
extracted. The lease was terminated
at the sale of the property on Nov g.
The extracting of ore stopped Nov L.
after which time no more stopping was
allowed, and consequently no more ore
could be extracted. There was ore in
sight when they We're forced to stop.
The witness admitted that there was
no shaft expense or no croSscut ey-
pense in the expense, but there was
expense for a raise, sinking wines, etc
The witness was asked to examine
his books and tell how much ore was
hoisted from the mine. The witness
found that 1854 tons of ore had been
hoisted. Estimating at 1.500 pounds to
car the total amount extracted would
be S,9SS tons. Those books, he after
ward explained, showed only the
amount of ore extracted from Sept 8
to Nov. H.
In taking his samples from the Mich
ael Dewitt the witness said he was mis-
taken in some cases and took samples
which showed very little worth. In re-
gard to the streaks of which he had
taken samples he admitted that the
streaks of II inches in width could not
be mined alone. The ground would
have to be broken in order to admit a
man to take out the streak of ore. He
had not estimated the cost of doing
this in making his estimate of the net |
value of the ore
do you consider" asked Mr. Cor
bett, that you took fair way of esti-
mating the value of the ore by taking |
samples here and there, wherever you
chose?"
Yes, sir. 1t was just as fair way
as | could determine
Wasn't it the dead cinch way?"
Il do not think so. The method | |
adopted. taking sample wherever | |
saw anything, would give a very fair
average of the ore taken out"
Suppose you had taken an average /
sample by taking samples from the
sides, front and back of each Slope,
what would have been the RESULT?
The average would have been very
much lower"
The cross examination and the re-di-
rect examination of Mr.. Hand occupied
the entire forenoon On redirect ex-
animation Mr.. Hand said that he aver
aged all the samples taken in the Bry-
an stope. He thought his way the best
way to estimate the average value of
the ore in the stope.
On discrimination Mr.. Hand
said that under certain circumstances |
ore under per cent in the ground has
no value. He would, however, consider
hat under ordinary circumstances
such ore would be of no value.
Kiepetko on the stand.
Frank klepetko of Great Falls. SUI
perintendent of the Boston & Montana
and the Butte & Boston mining COM
panes was put on the stand just be-
fore the noon recess. He graduated as
mining engineer from the New York
School of Mines in 1880, and was en-
oloyed by various Lake Superior min
Ing companies until 1891, previous TO
coming to Butte. He considered some
If the smelters in Butte better than
others, and he thought them properly
on the whole. The value
If copper in 1896 and 1897 had been
oohed up by the witness.
Take ore which goes 7.02 per cent
Upper, wet assay, on the dump at the
mouth of the shaft. passed through
properly constructed smelter. what
would be the value?" asked Mr.. Mar
hall.
We'll. L"
How long will it take you to an
wer that question:" asked Judge
Knowles.
"A few minutes
Can you answer it before - o'cloek?"
No, said the witness. looking at his |
watch. Its after Il now"
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
ion Mr. Klepetko placed the value Ct
ne ore at 1874. He went into details.
hoWing the saving after each process
reduction, both according TO the work
one in the Butte & Boston smelter ia /
his city and in the Boston & Montana
melter at Great Falls. OF the orig
1al ton there would be 1904 pounds Of
Upper which. after treatment. would be
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