The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-11
NEARLY HALF THROUGH
Defendants Have Almost Finish
ed Their Side of the Case.
THEY MAY CLOSE TODAY
The Plaintiffs Will Probably Have All
Their Experts on the Stand Before
They Finish the Presentation
of Their Case

Inc ueleHddntS are drawing TO the
close of their side of the great mining
suit and may possibly rest to-day. The
defendants were willing yesterday to
take less than the IS expert witnesses
allowed them. but as the plaintiffs will
probably use their entire quota the
defendants will probably use all of the
few remaining witnesses allowed them
under the arrangement.
The whole of the testimony offered by
the defendants may be likened to the
lode or zone of which it aims to prove
that the Rarus mine consists The
testimony is composed of rich streaks
separated with rather barren testimony
| not so highly mineralized. Yet while
not all perhaps pay ore" from the
standpoint of the jury. yet it is all
vein matter Close to the hanging
wall. or start of the case was a rather
rich streak in the testimony of James
MacFarlane. Then there was another
rich vein in the testimony of Mr.. Free
| land, after which came some lower
grade streaks or stringers, not so high
! iy mineralized. but all closely connected
i ana interlacing, thus serving the estab-
| 1shment of the entire lode of testi-
mony. Near the middle of the case,
| wednesday afternoon. was reached
the middle vein, in the person of Mr.
| Palmer. This rich streak was not all
stopped out until yesterday morning.
The footwall vein in the testimony may
be said to have been reached yesterday
afternoon in the testimony of Mr..
Boehmer, and this rich streak is not
yet all stopped out. There may have
been one or two faults or clay seams in
the bulk of the testimony for the
defendant, but it is claimed that these
! faults are only minor and have in no
way displaced the drift of testimony or
| lnterfered with the continuity and value
OF the evidence as a whole.
Mr. Boehmer was No. Is of the
defendants experts.
In response to further questions by
Mr.. Forb1s at the morning session, Mr.
rainier said that at the east end line
of the Rarus close to the Snohomish.
the distance from the footwall to the
hanging wall of the Rarus lode is 235
feet The witness pointed out again
the footwall and the hanging wall in
various portions of the lode
In fixing the walls have you taken
into consideration the faults at alp"
Not particularly
Don't you think the faults have
altered the condition of things?"
No. only in that they afforded an
opportunity for greater naturalization
Il VIII invite you, Mr.. Palmer to
come with me and examine the mine
together"
Il will accept your invitation, Mr..
Forhis' =
How do you tell where the hanging
wall Is when you can't see it?''
Il trace the location of the hanging
wall from the points where l have
found 1t to be. Finding the hanging
wall in a number of places. ii is of
ha
II appears are connected"
DO you mark it in a straight line
between these points?"
Not necessarily. No hanging wall
ever did go in a straight line"
How can you say that this is the
changed?"
Hanging walls are constantly chang
ing their dip and their strike as we'll"
What do you say as to this Batter
man raise?''
Il consider it a spur running up from
the hanging wall of the Lode
What do you say of the raise from
the $50 10 the 600?''
That goes through ore all the way
and connects one Slope with the other"
On redirect examination Mr.. Palmer
said that the Mountain View and the
Rarus lodes diverge as they go east.
rms is shown by the Rarus erosscuts.
These show there are several hundred
feet of non mineralized country rock
between them at the east These lodes |
have connecting vein or link at the
west Both lodes dip to the south While |
the connecting vein is nearly identical.
Have you seen any vein along the
hanging wall such as the plaintiffs |
counsel described?"
Il have not either said or heard any,
thing of it."
Neither have the rest of us for the |
defendant said Mr.. Vale.
You may, you may" said Mr.. For
bis
Assuming that there is vein not
connected with the Rarus lode but run
ming substantially parallel with the
hanging wall of the Rarus, and on the
no, what would you say of the material /
between that vein and the Rarus lode
in the eastern portion of the property"
II would bear the same relation to
the Rarus lode-country rock"
Jerry Cooney was the next witness
He had worked in the Anaconda. st.
Lawrence. Mountain Con. Never
Sweat. Ramsdell, Parrot, Ground SOUR
rel, etc. He is working at present i'm
the Never Sweat. He worked eight
years in the st. Lawrence up to about
four years ago. The witness said he
had spent two weeks in an examination
of the Rarus lode. He considered the
parallel slopes TO be on one lode instead
of on separate lodes. The witness found
the footwall in a little crosscut off the
450-leyel near shaft No. l. and also be-
mind shaft No. =, where is 100 feet of a
footwali
As good a footwall as / ever saw in
the camp" said Mr.. Cooney
What is the intervening ground be-
tween the footwall and the stopes2'
1t is low grade ore. | don't know
whether 1t would pay or not There
are five or six streaks in it showing
good pay ore before you get to the
stopes.'
Where do you find the hanging wall
of this lodeo,
About Is feet east of the Free Mill
ing raise in the Windlass drift"
What about the Batterman raise?,'
I think that is the hanging WALL
What do you think of the country
rock between the footwall and the
hanging wall you have indicated?,'
Il think IL is all ledge-ledge with
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