The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-23
THREE WITNESSES ONLY
Evidence in the Mining Case Is
Nearly Finished.
IT MAY BE CLOSED TODAY
The Fifteenth Witness for the Plaintiff
on the Stand When Court Ad-
journed-The Testimony
Brought Out.

Three witnesses only remain to be
examined in the mining case. r. j.
Rodda, the fifteenth for the plaintiffs,
was on the stand when court adjourned
yesterday, n Is not all worked out.
If these three remaining witnesses
prove to be stringers or streaks or
seams of ore, ii will be possible to
stope them out to-day and close the
evidence. But two of them are said to
be pretty wide veins, so that as a con-
sequence the case for the plaintiff is
not likely to be closed until Tomorrow.
Messrs. Wylie and Tyler are experts
for the plaintiffs, who remain to be ex-
amined. n 1t is expected that one
more miner will be examined.
The first witness yesterday was Will
liam Eva of Walkerville. He has lived
here IL years, and 81 years altogether,
all in Montana, in this country. He
has also mined tin and copper in Corn
wall. He came to the United States
in 1877 n mined in Lewis and
Clarke and jefferson counties, finally
coming to Butte i'm 1880. He worked for
the Alice company IA years and for
the Colorado company four years. He
had examined the Raru n Micha
Dewitt ground since Feb. p at the re-
quest of Mr.. M~oulthorpe. Mr.. Eva
was asked as a practical miner to give
the conditions of the mines as he found
them.
Mr.. Eva thereupon told of the veins
in the Michael Dewitt as others have
done.
II want the jury to understand"
| said Mr.. Eva, that when / say lode,
ledge or vein / mean lode, ledge or
vein. and when / mean / say
seam"
The witness characterized the al
legged veins of the defendant as seams.
and as being only country rock. instead
of one big zone.
rs it your Judgment after your ex-
animation that this is all one lode or
separate and distinct vein?"
They. are three separate and dis
tinct lodes. They a no relation else
on either side. They have no more re-
lation to zach other h the different
counties of the state of Montana have
to each other"
Where do these veins apex?"
I'm the Michael Dewitt ground just
i'm the point shown in the model"
The witness was cross-eyamined by
Mr.. Vale in regard to the fault and
in regard to faults in general. He said
that the fault cuts the vein clear off
and he wouldn't call the vein within
the fault to be the same vein as those
east of the vein. 1t is no new thing.
he said, to find all kinds of rock in
ulte ground. The witness had had
a great deal of experience with faults
and never expected to find a vein pass
through a fault. If it does in this
ground. ne said. il is something new
i'm his experience and observation OF
faults.
Lee Hayes was the g witness. He
is a civil and mining engineer, and has
been engaged in Colorado, and is now
employed by the Butte az Boston and
Boston & Montana mining companies.
His experience has been in Colorado
until last fall. since which time he has
peer in Butte. He colored the cross
sections introduced by the plaintiff,
and assisted Mr.. chase in making the
models and maps. He said the cross
sections, models and maps are cor
rect. The witness then went over the
ground his predecessors have ira
versed. He said that the Snohomish
raise is driven on the Windlass vein.
The Free Milling raise starts on a
streak and goes up to the $50 level,
where il strikes the fault and disap-
pears. Between the two faults the
rock is much shattered. The north
vein stops at the fault. The witness
considered ii another vein entirely be-
You'd the fault. The throw between the
faults is very great. The witness did
not consider the seams on which the
defendants have raised to be quartz
veins at all. They are seams such as
are to be found everywhere. There is
no question in the world as to the vein
and none of the seams could be called
a vein on any theory. He did not
think in any place the vein passes
through the fault. The clay seam is
continuous everywhere. and is the foot
of the fault. The Windlass vein does
not pass through the fault. At the $50
west of the fault there has been a
stope which is now caved in. I'm
800 --,,I So f.a.,, the ono
body on the east to the n on the
west, but in passing through the fault
he would find an ore body with a dip
of from IS to As degrees. whereas east
of the fault the ore body has a dip
of 30 degrees. The north vein at the
$50 would come under the fiat vein.
The witness said that the three veins
i'm dispute apex on the Michael Dewitt
claim. They are separate and distinct
claims, but II considered as one vein
the apex would be the same. Between
the south seam n the Chase raise
there is no vein at all. The witness
would not consider these veins to con-
stitute a zone any more than the entire
Butte district can be considered as one
zone. The witness criticised the cross
sections introduced by the defendants
and pointed out what he claimed to be
discrepancies. He showed the apex OF
the veins. The windlass vein apexes
on the surface until 1t reaches the
fault and then apexes underground
along the fault. The noon recess was
then taken.
1t the afternoon session Mr.. Hayes
was cross-examined by Mr.. Vale al
much length. particularly in regard to
the cross-sections. Then he was
called on to tell silica, alumina
and clay are, and some other things.
You say hat this fault indicates
a break of the vein?'
Yes. Ii cuts 1t of"
do you hin from what constitutes
the east fault hat the fracture &C.
CURED before or after the general min
eralizationg"
Il think the fracture was after the
naturalization"
so at the time of the mineraliza-