The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-24
examination in chief that it had moved

examination III CHIEF tndt IL Hdu iIONto
~upward?"
Il thought the part west Of the fault
had moved upward. The part between
the faults have beer raised or lowered
But what Is your opinion? Was Il
originally lower or higher"
Il have no opinion on that point"
Have you any opinion as to whether
IT moved right or left or north OF
south?"
Il think there was some horizontal
and some vertical movement"
DO o think that when the fiat vein
was i'm it's original position IL was a
part Of this back vein?"
They may hav been originally to-
gether."
Then somewhere in the world. prob
ably In the vicinity of Butte, there was
originally a large vein, represented by
this back vein, and a fatter vein. and
these existed together in a block of
country. DO you think they left some
big vein which continues i'm that origi-
nal position?"
Yes"
DO you think the rest of the vein
lies to the east or to the west?'
Il don't know. i think the fault oc-
CURED after the veins were formed I'm
the ground and they were not brought
from very far away"
How far was the dislocation?"
Horizontally IL appears to have been
$50 feet. Vertically it may nave been
I 900 feet"
But you have no opinion as TO
which way it came?"
No"
"Or as TO where the rest of the vein
is to be found?"
No"
do you know Of any place where
there is a vein of which "a part is miss
ing Inc which this fiat vein would seem
10 belong to-"
Not certainly. l don't know whether
originally It was east or west or up or
down"
The witness was examined very
thoroughly in regard to all the points
of controversy the ~contending
parties. on redirect examination Mr..
Tyler said that there is a vein to the
south i'm the Pennsylvania cutoff by
the fault from which the fiat vein
might possibly have come. Or II might
have come from somewhere else. The
amount of copper he found per ton
within the zone in his assay was llis
pounds per ton, n outside the zone
tht average of his assays was 10
pounds Of copper to the ton.
Evan Fisher then too the stand to
identify some samples and swear to
the correctness of the assays he took.
NO. 4 loT the Dldlltll1s was w lilldIh
NJ. Hammond, a resident of Butte for
eight years and a practical miner. He
had mined in Pennsylvania. Illinois.
Missouri, Dakota, Colorado and Mon
tana. Half of his time in Butte he had
worked i'm the silver mines and half in
the copper. He had worked in the Vul-
can. Travonia, Champion, Gagnon n
other mines. He had examined the
Rarus and McDevitt properties since
Eah ot Most nf hig examination had
been of the ground east Of the fault.
He told of the veins and the faults and
gave II as his opinion that these
Michael Dewitt veins apex on the
Michael Dewitt surface. He said the
veins nave well-defined walls such as a
miner could break to. The fault cuts
of the Michael Dewitt veins from con-
tinuing their course westward. h
Windlass. north and cross veins are
separate and distinct veins and are not
part of one zone, i'm the opinion OF the
witness. Mr.. Vale said that in order
10 save time he would let the witness
go without cross-eXamination, his evil
dence being only cumulative.
The last witness for the plaintiffs was
w. H.. Wylie, who then took the stand.
He is a mining engineer of Denver,
Colo. He graduated from the Colorado
state School of Mines in 1883. since
which time he has examined mines
through much of the west and also in
Corea, Asia. He had examined a num-
Der Of mines in Butte. including the
Pacific. Poulin, Stella, Moscow. Colusa-
Parrot. Steward. Ramsdell-Parrot.
Never Sweat. J. ]. c., Rarus. Johns
town. Pennsylvania and Mountain
View mines. He had spent a number
of weeks i'm a thorough examination of
the ground i'm dispute n the adjacent
territory. The witness said that what
has been called outcrop on the Rarus
hill should rather be called he float,
inasmuch as IL is scattered over so
much territory instead of being con
fined to the limits of the vein. The
witness exhibited a number Of photo
graphs of the surface of the Rarus hill.
He said the surface indications are no
proof of the extent of a vein. The vein
matter or float on the surface gets
very much scattered. The witness told
them of the Lloyd tunnel which runs
for l,150 feet in the hill. For 1000 feet
the granite rock is exceptionally
scanned and changed. IL has very little
of the black mica and there are very
many Of the seams and streaks in IL.
The witness had taken a specific por-
ton of tunnel. including the hanging
wall of the alleged zone. He described
the seams he had found and showed
samples of them. The same changed
ana dlltTtu tO1ultlDn Oh the SFdIlit Is
found throughout. n IL is absolutely
impossible to take any 100 or 200 or 800
feet and say that that distance consti-
tutes a zone No clearly defined walls
to any such Zon car be found. The
only walls are to he distinct veins
themselves n they cannot be com
bined in any one Zon unless all the
copper belt Of Butte Is considered to be
one zone. The witness showed sam
pies taken south of the hanging wall
Of the zone. The average value of 90
feet OF the crosscut was y per cent. in
copper. Within the zone a correspond
ing sample was 3 per cent. A crosscut
which ~penetrates the hanging wall of
the alleged tone has two very we'll
defined streaks. Samples here were
taken by the witness 43 feet south of
the drift.
The deepest working on which any
Stopping has been done in the Michael
Dewitt, said the witness. is at the Me
Kinley slopes OF the 100-foot level The
Bryan Slopes are vertically above them