The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-26

agree to this with the exception OF
MIR. Wylie, and he said he didn't know
whether the mineral waters came from
above or below. Another admitted fact
is that the defendants lode was all
mineralized from the same source. at
the same time. and in the same assure.
1t is also agreed that after this miner
a~lization there was a secondary miner
alization of the deeper parts Of the lode.
The ores above were leached out, en-
riching the ore bodies below. This Is
uniform. IL applies TO all parts OF the
lode both at the east end and at the
west. These facts were admitted, n
the speaker would now consider certain
matters of controversy. He would say
of opinion evidence that the jury Is to
make its own deduction and form its
own conclusive opinion. The witness
states the facts and gives his opinions.
The jury accept the facts but do not
necessarily accept the opinions. They
have the benefit Of the advice of the
witnesses. but the opinion is TO be
formed by the jurymen. Some of the
expert witnesses for he plaintiff had
not only given facts N opinions, but
had made arguments to the jury. In
fact. the best argument yet made for
the plaintiffs had been by MIR. Wylie.
The plaintiffs agree that the hanging
wall OF the zone and the footwall of
AAAt Dll' ~ N ~ - NV - AAhr
wall. but they claim that there are in
tervening hanging walls and ~footwalls.
Yet the ~efendants ave actually
stopped ore in places from the ootwall
TO the hanging wall of this zone with
out a break. The speaker denied that
tbs plaintiffs could divide the slopes
into three distinct ore bodies-the
windlass vein. the north vein and the
cross vein. The hanging wall of their
vein runs In some places right through
Slopes where ore bodies have been.
Who ever heard OF a hanging wall
which had to cut right through a body
OF ore? Witnesses for the plaintin adj
NIT that connections on ore can be
made through the zone from one wall
to the other. Regarding AL the
country being m~ineralized," the speaker
said that there was a great difference
in degree Of naturalization. Rock with
a trace OF copper might be called min
eralized. yet IL is country rock. The
severance of the lode from the coun
try as a whole is shown clearly by the
500-foot crosscut. Throughout the lode,
at each side OF the faults and between
the faults, the strike Is the same. and
there is precisely the same system OF
assuring. From end to end. therefore,
the % is uniform. How Is IL from
hanging 10 foot? Mr.. Vale showed
samples which has been testified To by
witnesses as characteristic Of theh hang
ing wall. OF the footwall and Of the
zone.
The necessary deductions as 10 the
lode are that from the 450 downward II
Is a unit. IL a unit from the $50 down
IL may be assumed that IL is a uni,
from the $50 up TO the surface. Before
tracing the pex the speaker said ht
would consider the east fault. Mr.
Forbis said the east fault was the
! plaintiffs worst enemy. That is prob
ably true. but IL has come To be their
enemy since the beginning Of the suit
| They claim hat the fault cut OF the
veins and have run up lightning rods
to find al occult apex somewhere. That
wasn't their case when the suit was