The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-17
FRESH SET OF MODELS
More Maps and Plans and Draw
ings and Specimens.
BIG GLASS SHOW CASE
Electric Lights Used to Give the Jury an
Idea of the Mining Operations From
the Plaintiffs Standpoint-Mr.
Chase on the Stand.

| 1t is evident that no expense is being
| spared by either side in order to pre-
sent to the jury in the strongest posi-
| BILE manner each side of the mining
case. Yesterday the model and plans
and maps and specimens of rocks OF
| the defendants, which have become sc
familiar during the fortnight past dis
| appeared, and were replaced by more
! models and maps and plans and draw
| ings and specimens of rock, and it is
to these that the jury, lawyers and
the spectators will now devote their at
| tention.
1t is apparent that the plaintiffs have
for the case as the defendants. There
| is big model showing the Rarus and
Michael Dewitt mines, with their works
and ore bodies, the construction having
been done evidently with infinite care.
| Then there is also big glass show
case, Illuminated by electric lights at
the rear, look into the case giving
one a remarkably good idea of the
mine viewed as a cross section. There
are II different glasses, and the vari-
Gus workings and ore bodies are paint
ed on the glass. There is another big
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various parts of the mine, cross Sec
lions and the like, which can be pulled
down one after the other as they are
needed. Then there is small model
showing the faults in the mine distinct
from everything else.
All this paraphernalia of the plain
tiffs had replaced that of the defend
ants when the plaintiffs started in with
the beginning of yesterdays proceed
ings to give the jury their side of the
case. The change is somewhat con-
fusing. not only from the changes in
models and maps, but also in the
change of names. 1t seems that the
same vein has one name with the
plaintiffs and a different name with the
defendants The vein which the de-
PENDANTS have called the north con-
Meeting vein, running from the Rarus
diagonally w to the Mountain View,
is called the Johnstown vein by the
plaintiffs. The footwall vein of the
defendants is called the south vein by
the plaintiffs. The Mckinley and
Bryan slopes of the Michael Dewitt
where was the ore in controversy, are
not called Mckinley and Bryan by the
plaintiffs, but are styled the Windlass
vein. The Michael Dewitt raise of the
defendants is called the Snohomish
raise by the plaintiffs. All these and
many other changes in designation
have to be borne in mind, now that the
plaintiffs phase of the case is being
presented.
The first of the plaintiffs Is experts
is Edward e. Chase. and he was on the
stand all yesterday. He is to the
plaintiffs side of the case what James
MacFarlane was to the defendants. He
leads off and breaks the ground for the
superstructure of evidence to be pre-
scented by the plaintiffs side. Early in
his testimony it appeared that the
plaintiffs will endeavor to prove that
the apex of the Mckinley and Bryan
Slopes, or Windlass vein, is not in the
Rarus but in the Michael Dewitt claim
Mr.. Chase places it IS feet south of the
south side of the line of the Rarus.
The jury and spectators yesterday
afternoon had their first observation
of Attorney Vale as cross-examiner,
and the combat was greatly enjoyed.
Mr.. Vale has such suave, gentle,
smiling way about him that he seems
to be enticing the witness into his
camp, and the witness naturally feels
loath to disoblige him by refusing to
give affirmative answers to his ques-
tons Yet there is something danger
Gus and deceptive about Mr.. Wales
pleasant smile. He will smile and
smile, and then, the first thing you
know, while still smiling, he hits the
witness clip under the chin. Then
he apologies and smiles some more,
and gives the witness a right handler
over the heart. Mr.. Vale landed on
Mr. Chase's body several times yester-
day afternoon, but some of his blows
fell short and Mr.. Chase neatly par
ried. and the match was greatly en-
joyed. Mr.. Vale and Mr.. Chase will
put on the gloves again this morning.
At the opening of the morning ses-
sion Mr.. Marshall asked Judge
Knowles for an exception to his ruling
in regard to instructing the jury, and
the exception was allowed.
The first witness for the plaintiff was
Edward e. Chase. mining engineer
He graduated from the Massachusetts
School of Technology in Boston in 1850.
He then came West and has ever since
been connected with everything in re-
gard to mining engineering. particularly
in Colorado. He examined the Rarus
mine in February a year ago and has
spent 10 months underground, prepar-
ing for the plaintiffs side of the case,
constructing a model, etc. The witness
said the plan map of the defendants is,
so far as he knows correct. The wit
ness said his model represents all the
workings of the Rarus. The workings
are made of wood and show ore below
the level. the floor of the model being
the 900-foot level, which is 100 feet adj
ditional in depth to the model of the
defendant He said the workings are
correctly represented on his model.
The question in controversy is the own
ership of the ore taken from the Wind
lass vein. called by the defendants the
Mckinley and Bryan slopes. In regard
to this matter the witness said:
We have represented by strings the
various veins in the mine. The Wind