The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-22
Mr.. HAND ON THE STAND
He Spent 90 Days Examining the
Rarus and Michael Dewitt.
iE SIZES THINGS UP
Mr.. Multhorpe mt Mr.. Avery Tell What
They Saw and What Their Judg-
ment as Experts Leads
Them to Believe.

Considerable progress vas made In
the mining case yesterday, the testi-
mony being corroborations of that
hitherto presented by the plaintiffs rel
alive to the apex of the veins. When
court opened in the morning John Gil
lie vas put on the stand to testify to
a mistake i'm one of his cross sections
which gave the width of the lead in
one of the cross-cuts at three inches.
when it should have been 30 inches. On
cross-examination Mr.. Gillie said to
MIR. Vale that he did not think he had
made mistakes in other measurements.
Carl H. Hand. a mining engineer for
Il years in Butte. and "A graduate of
the Colorado mining school. was the
mex witness. He had spent 80 days in
a study of the Rarus n Michael De-
Witt claims.
state what you have don and your
conclusions after your examinations
relative to the point in controversy"
said Mr.. Forbis.
II was in court the day Mr.. Mac
Farlane testified i'm regard to the
zone," said Mr.. Hand. II had not no
ticed any zone, but 1 thought / might
be mistaken, and that there really was
a zone there. You have all noticed the
kind of granite we get in building here.
On the surface of Anaconda hill the
granite is somewhat different. This is
a whitish granite Within. although
somewhat black on the outside. 1t is
entirely different from the general
country rock of Butte.
Il decided to compare the rock of this
alleged zone with the roc outside the
zone in every direction. i first entered
the Harris & Lloyd tunnel. In the por-
tai / found a soft granite. decomposed.
49, A. 10 x,.A,a attl1 IlnnE fnino
in As feet to a point south of the Penn
sylvania vein the granite gradually
changed. and from there to the face i'm
|. 900 feet there vas no material differ
ence i'm the granite. The micas were
all decomposeda and changed. This is in
the oxydized zone. TO get to the sui
phide zone and ascertain the mineral
ization I went down he Harris &
Lloyd shaft 10 feet and reached the
100 level of the Pennsylvania. l went
in 200 feet to a cross-cut and out SOC
feet on that. This brought me to a
point south of the hanging wall of the
zone claimed by the plaintiffs and close
TO the west md ] took there a sample
of the clear, clean granite without any
streak at all. 1t assayed four-tenths OF
one per cent of cope and two-tenths
of an ounce i'm silver. l then went SOC
feet north of the footwall. outside the
zone. and the granite assayed 55-1Ot
per cent copper and two-tenths OF an
ounce in silver. / then went to the east
! of the property on TO n Snohom-
ish ground. South of the hanging wal
at the east end / took three sample
They assayed 55-100 per cent copper
$40 and $500. / hen went north OF
the hanging wall at the east end ano
il went 45-100 per cent copper and one
tenth of an ounce in silver. L ther
went inside the zone as claimed by the
defendants, and found there was nc
particular difference in the amount OF
copper in the country rock outside anc
inside the zone. On the 450-foot leve
in the cross-cut to the defendants foot
wall a sample went 7s-10o per cent In
copper. On the 600 in the cross-cut t1
the Bryan slopes, 40 feet south of the
north vein. I found some granite thai
went nothing in either silver or cop
per. / went through the cross-cut IN
the Mountain View. At a point 5W
feet north of the Johnstown vein Il
went 6S-1OO, and 500 feet south of thu
.Johnstown vein it went 61-10o. Thirty
five feet north of the Powder vein, out
side the zone, il went $1,000, n 80 fee
south of the Powder vein, within tn
zone, il went 1900. In fact, ther'
is no material difference regarding tn
granite within or without the zone o
the defendants"
VIVA did you notice in regard Il
seams and
Throughout this whole belt are lit
tie veins and large veins. Those which
miners follow are district veins"
Mr.. Hand then described in detail tn
ore bodies and veins Of the Michae
Dewitt ground, and the various work
ings, as has already been described b.
other witnesses for the plaintiff. II
showed the ore connection from tn
70O-foot level. Mckinley slopes, to tn
Bryan slopes, thence through connec
ton to the $50, thence by the Snohom
ish raise to the surface. He showe'
the apex of the Windlass vein on tn
Michael Dewitt surface south of tn
Rarus south sid line. The north Vel
he also traced from the ore bodies {
the apex.
1T is your opinion, then. that tn
apex is on the Michael Dewitt surface?
1T isn't an opinion. 1t is an abso