The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-01
BUTTE News.
THEY ARE PRISONERS
Hard Lines for the Jury in the
Mining Case.
EXPERTS ON THE STAND
Thirty or More OF Them viii Be Heard
Before the Trial Is Finished Testi-
mony Showing the Amount
of Ore Taken Out.

The jury in the trial of the mining
case of f. Rollins Morse ". the Mon
tana Ore Purchasing company must be
pretty hardy men If they last through
the course of the trial without breaking
down. They are kept under the closest
surveillance and can speak TO no one
but the United States marshal and his
deputy. They are marched to the Nc
Dermott hotel for their meals and
spend their evenings, Sundays and
hours when the trial is not. in lounging
about the United States marshafs
office, playing poker reading novels,
and talking about anything except the
case in hand. At night they are taken
over to their sleeping apartments at the
Butte hotel, and the greatest care is
exercised that they shall not have vis-
itors during the night They will be
practically prisoners for month, prob
ably, and during that time their bust
ness and their families viii have to get
along as best they can. Meanwhile, into
the ears of the gentlemen of the jury.
is poured a bewildering array of fig
ures,, computations and estimates, and
IL this keeps up throughout, a case or
two of brain fever may he heard Of
Yesterday was day of expert min
ing testimony, and 1t Is understood that
so odd expert witnesses viii be exam
ined on one side or the other before the
conclusion of the case. At the conclu
sion of the second day the examination
of the second expert had not been con-
cluded.
The testimony yesterday was all for
the purpose of showing the quantity of
ore extracted from the Michael Dewitt
and its probable value. AT the morning
session the cross-examination of John
Gillie. the mining engineer. was re-
sumed. Mr.. ellie was handed state
ment prepared by his associates on the
lease showing the amount due Mr..
HeinZe as the owner of a one-sixth in
terest in the Michael Dewitt for ore
shipped to June Z of last year. In this
statement the mining charges on the
ore shipped was placed at 81 per ton.
Mr.. Giilie was questioned closely as to
his method of sampling. Some of the
samples had been taken outside of the
Michael Dewitt ground. This was nee
essary on account of the fact that all
the ore in portions of the Dewitt had
been stopped out and there was not
enough left 10 get sample. In such
cases he had TO go to the nearest point.
Some samples had been taken from the
Pennsylvania, few feet outside the
Dewitt. OF the 10 samples taken by
Mr. Gillie, nine had been taken outside
the Michael Dewitt ground
Evan Fisher, assayer for the Butte
& Boston and Boston & Montana COM
nduAs lTSAlIlN4 10 the assays he ndu
made for Mr.. Gillie and Mr.. Hand
AL the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion Judge Mediation for the defense
was granted permission to amend the
answer. The amendment substituted
for the words s2l. 2S3 the words $40. 04S.7tI.
and for the figures $4,000 the figures
s,l24. and for S2I SCI the figures S11, 300 81.
The defendant admits that from Feb 2.
1897, TO March &c. 1897. il extracted the
amount of s,0se tons of ore of the value
of sl0.O4S.75 and no more, and ii ad-
mits that prior to Feb. 2. 1897 IL ex-
tracted from underneath the surface OF
the Michael Dewitt lode claim the
amount of 9,124 tons of ore of the value
of Sll,359.61 and no more.
C. 5. McHenry was the first witness
In the afternoon. He was employed for
merly by the NJ. y. -. company ana in
September of 1896 stopping and taking
out of ore began from the Mckinley
stope. The witness could give no esti-
mate Of the amount Of ore extracted
from there from September. 1896. to Feb.
,. 1897. On cross examination the Wit
ness said that c. 5. Ratterman was his
superior officer at the time he opened un
the slopes and he was the man who d.
rected him To extract ore from this
place. He remained in charge until Jan
/. 1897. and he directed the opening of
the level.
C. II. Hand said he Is a mining en-
gineer. having graduated from the Colo
RADIO State School of Mines. He has
been engaged In mining in Butte since
1886. He had examined the slopes ON
the $50 level of the McDevitt and also
of the Bryan stope. He had made meas
urements and taken samples from both
He took IS samples from the vicinity OF
the 45o. From the Bryan stope he took
81 samples. He took the samples III per-
son and delivered them personally to
Evan Fisher. Mr.. Fisher reported his
assays as he had testified In the morn
ing session. In the 450 Slope the witness
found e samples which were pay sam
pies, ranging from per cent TO - Der
cent. The average width of these sam
pies was 2i2 feet. He took nine cubic
feet as an estimate If the tonnage. He
found The stope to be IA feet long and