The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-18
BUTTE News.
FINISHED WITH NO. ONE
Experts for the Plaintiff in the
Big Mining Case.
MAKING SLOW PROGRESS
Faster Time Will Be Made After Few
More Experts Have Been Exam
ined-To Be Concluded
Next Week

The plaintiffs in the mining suit yes
terday finished with No. l and made a
good start on No. ,. After the first few
of their experts are examined it is
thought that faster progress will be
made with the others, and VIII be neces-
sary to proceed faster if the case is
to be concluded next week
The cross examination of Mr. Chase
was continued when court opened in the
morning. He was questioned first in
regard to seams and assures in general
He said il is frequent thing TO find a
central core or channel to it. People
might differ as to the width they have,
and the central core is some times not
more than an inch in width. There may
be central core with parallel streaks
or cracks, but there is always a limit to
the width which can be called the vein.
The hardness or softness of streak has
nothing to do with its being vein mat
ter. Mr.. Vale had various sketches to
show the witness and question him
about. Regarding the junction Of the
vein, regarding which Mr.. Chase was
questioned yesterday-one vein making
the apex at the Michael Dewitt, and the
other going north to an apex in the Rar-
us ground-Mr. Chase said that this
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not more than half an inch in width.
The witness fixed the apex OF the
north vein 100 feet south of the Rarus
south side line. Above the $50 foot lev
Ell the vein is three feet thick. The apex
of the south. or Windlass, vein. Is the
same, the two having struck into each
other at the east end line. The apices
Were reached by going up from below
and there were no surface indications
of them The DlDinfiffs in rQ iSinpr did
not break through the surface. but
merely went up to the. wash. There is
10 feet of wash. All the veins and
streaks in this vicinity We're pointed out
by Mr.. Chase, and he was questioned
closely relative To their size and ap-
pearance.
The witness thought that the vein be-
tween the faults is 40 feet wide in places
and dips to the south. Its greatest width
would be about IS feet He thought
that there Were Two veins between the
east and west faults. One is fiatter than
the other. One of them has so degrees
pitch, and the other about so degrees
pitch. These veins come together and
form one vein at the 400. There are
three veins east of the fault, the South.
the Windlass and the North. The South
and Windlass veins approach each other
going east At one point there is not
more than 10 feet separation between
the slopes of the two. The witness adj
mitted that from the Windlass vein one
could cross the clay seam to the fiat
vein and 60 on ore all the way up to an
apex $50 feet inside the Rarus lines. lie
called the vein between the faults how
ever, a distinct vein from the Wndlass.
The fiat vein between the faults has the
characteristics of other ore bodies
Mr.. Vale questioned the witness in
regard TO his raise in following the vein.
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turns. The cross vein between the
Windlass and North veins apexed in
Chase No. . On redirect eXaminat ton
the witness said he took samples last
August of the stopping there, but he found
nothing there commercial, nothing that
would Indicate "A vein. The witness
placed the apex of the Windlass vein at
point SO feet south of the Rarus south
side line. running westerly in parallel
with the Rarus south side line to the
fault. and run down with the fault. The
apex of the north vein is in the surface
until it reaches the fault Both apices
are in Dewitt ground, and the apex of
the bodies of ore in controversy are en-
titled south Of the Rarus ground The
witness thought the apex of the fiat
vein between the faults would. if its
courses We're continued in the same d-
rection at the same angle, be somewhere
in the Sullivan claim. The north vein
and the Windlass vein are about 100 feet
apart.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Chase
was on the stand for "a few minutes
more. Mr.. Chase said II is not an UNI
usual thing for veins To apex under
fault. as is the case with the Wind
lass. Faults are not an unusual occur
ence in mining countries Some por-
tons of country are sometimes
thrown thousands of feet. On re-cross-
examination the witness said he had
no evidence that the flat vein between
the faults apexes i'm the sullivan, or
that the country is iIineralized north
of where 1t is developed In the Rarus.
No. for the plaintiffs Was |. l..
Merrill. who for 20 years has been en-
gagged in practical mining with no