The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-15
BUTTE News.
THE BIG MINING CASE
Last Witness for the Defense on
the Stand.
CASE NEARLY HALF DONE
The Stenographers Have Turned Over
to the Court 1921 Pages of Type
written Testimony-Forty-F
Witnesses Examined.

The last witness for the defendants
in the mining suit was on the stand
when court adjourned last evening, the
direct examination of the last of the
experts on one side had been concluded
and the cross examination fairly be-
gun. The case may now be said TO be
fairly half done. and yesterday morn
ing the official stenographers IN the
case had turned over to the court l,.sl
pages of typewriter copy. 1t viii be
remembered that a number OF wit
uesses were examined relative to the
value of the ore taken before the fes-
timony began on the real point at is
sue. The plaintiff had eight of these
and the defendant 10. 50 that there
were q witnesses examined before the
IS experts on each side began to tes-
tify. So As witnesses have already been
examined and the IS experts for the
plaintiff are now to come.
The feature of yesterdays proceed
ings was the examination Of Il. A.
Heinze. the president of the defendant
company. Mr.. Lindsay. of the plain
tiff's counsel. who has been very i'll for
n number of days, was in court yester-
day once more, but was still very weak
and sat on the players bench while
Pitcher Forbis continued to send up his
puzziing curves to the crack batsmeh
of the defendants. IT is expected that
the defendants will be retired early III
this mornings session and then the
plaintiffs will have their inning.
The first witness for the day was
Joseph Thomas. Mr.. Thomas said he
has been a miner in Butte II years. haV-
ing worked in the old Bcll, Parrot, Co
Parrot. Anaconda, st. Lawrence.
Mountain Con, j. /. G. and Rarus. lie
had worked in the Rarus Is months and
was there before the stir negan. He
had also examined the mine with II view
to ascertaining whether ar not the mine
is one lode or several veins. lie hai
concluded that 1t is all one laaa or zone
and the Mckinley and Bryan slopes
are within that lode. He had worked In
the vicinity of the faults and the faults
do not interfere with the continuity OF
the ore. The witness showed on the
model the footwall and hanging wall Of
the lode He would not consider the
South Mckinley, Bryan and 400 slopes
as being on a separate and distinct vein.
The north bodies he also considered to
be on the same vein.
The witness worked in the St. Law
renee about 1898. He considered from
the appearances on the surface that the
Rarus and st. Lawrence are the same
lode. He had closely examined the cas-
end of the St. Lawrence and the wesl
end of the Rarus on the surface ano
concluded that the lode is the same.
do you mean to say" asked Mr.
Forbis. on eross-examination, that 70,
can trace the outcrop from the Ana
conda to the Rarus?"
Yes, sir: | can
How wide is the ST Lawrence lode?'
1T differs very much. AT the eas
end there is much that is not pay ore
so IL is worked most on the west end
have seen it there ITO to 115 feet wide
all one body.
Did you ever see it stopped in the st
Lawrence in two lines of stopes?"
No
You did not see one line Of slopes t,
the north and the other To the soutl
as in the Rarus2"
1T may have been stopped in section
and the intervening ground stopped aft
erwards."
But you never saw 100 feet in wldtl
left between lines of slopes and no
taken eut?"
No"
Did you ever see the 81. Lawrenc
lode 300 feet wide in the St Lawrence?
No"
Are you now in the employ of tn
Montana Ore Purchasing company"
Il suppose / am.
Don't you know that YOU area'
Il haven't heard of our relations be
ing severed"
Evan Clark was the next witness. IL
said he has been mining about 10 year.
of which 10 years We're spent in til
Butte district. He had always worke
for himself managing his osu pror
critics. He had given much attention t
underground conditions. He had spen
week examining the Rarus working
What are your conclusions as regard
the unity of this lode and its apex"
In going over the surface | find 0
the east end the largest outcrop on tina
hill or hogback. ! am able 10 trace ths
outcrop up the hill 500 on GOO feet. III
copper blossoms can be traced all III
way On the west end the course
the vein can be traced There Is vel