The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-19

vein have we'll defined hanging and foot /
walls. He saw them very distinctly on
the 49, but not on the Mckinley stope.
No. of the plaintiffs witnesses was
Ernest Schwefei. He said he has been
mining seven years in Butte, and had
worked in the Anaconda, st. Lawrence.
Mountain Ore, High Ore, Gagnon, Old
Glory and Clinton tunnel, and Is now
employed in the Gagnon. He had been
examining the property since February
81 He found the north vein and the
Windlass well defined. In the Snoho-
mish raise the vein Is to be traced all
the way down to the $50 slopes, and he
considered the raise 10 be from the
Windlass ore body. He also considered
the north vein to be raised on properly
from the north slopes. The streaks or
cracks claimed by the defendants to be
veins carrying the ore body to an apex
in the Rarus ground, the witness de-
clared to be not worth noticing, ana
would never be considered for a mo-
ment by a miner looking for pay ore.
The Windlass and north veins are
about 120 feet apart at the 450- They
are separated by country rock, and are
connected by cross vein foot wide,
on which no stopping has been done.
| There is nothing else connecting the
north and south slopes except the cross
! vein which shows any pay ore, or could
be called vein. The Free Milling
raise, the witness said, follows the vein
| until il gets a few feet below the $50,
| when it leaves the vein. The 134 drift
| is on the vein but the witness did not
| consider the $50 on the vein. 1t might
! be on a spur of the vein. The witness
| did not consider TIA raise of the defend
! ants to be on the vein at all. 1t might
| be on seam which plays out. The TIA
/ raise from the Michael Dewitt shaft and
4 the No. raise from the 2l0 show the
1 same vein. The witness was not pre-
4 pared to say much about the country
/ wess of the fault as he had not spent
| much time there. Between the faults
| is country rock. mineralized and crush
| ed up. The veins do not continue
through the fault. but are stopped there.
The witness considered the north vein,
| Windlass vein and cross vein all sepa-
| rate and distinct veins, clearly defined.
He would not consider them all one
| zone He could see nothing 1eaiing
from the north vein at the cross vein to
the Rarus ground. He considered the
apex of the three veins, the Windlass,
north and cross veins, to be all includ-
ed in Michael Dewitt ground. He saw
| no indications that they apex In the
Rarus ground.
| Mr.. Vale cross-examined the witness.
| He said he had been shift boss, but is
not at present. He haI not directed
mining work. but had worked under IN
structions from superiors. The work.
|
but there are different ore streaks
There is one wide streak and one mar
row which came together. They are
really one vein, separated by quartz
which doesn't pay to take out.
The witness said he had been shown
through the Rarus the first day, and
after that had studied it by himself.
The witness did not consider the streaks
on the $50 level to be part of the Wind
lass vein. He wouldn't consider them
veins at all, but spurs going off from the
vein. The 134 foot level develops differ
ent streaks in the vein, but they all JOIN
together, and are not foot apart at
any time. AT this point the noon re-
cess was taken.
| The cross-examination of Mr.. Schwe-
J fel was resumed in the afternoon. AT
the bottom of the Snohomish raise on
the 900 foot level the witness could not
| say whether it was all vein or not.
There is a streak going up which shows
up as far as the bend, and one side of it
there.
Doesn't a streak come in right at
that bend?"
There are streaks coming in all
along"
oh you say there are streaks COM
ing in all along. About how many come
in?"
, Il couldn't say"
Give me an idea-your judgment
Il couldn't l paid no attention to
them. My object has been to trace the
II understand. You think there Were
as many as half dozen streaks COM
ing imp
J Il couldn't give any number There
is one principal core to the vein which
runs the whole length. 1t swells out
sometimes"
! Give me some point where it swells?'
} ION this side of the raise it swells &c
three feet
! rs there any streak that comes out
in that vicinity"
There is one goes up little way"
From there up are there any more
? streaks joining your main core?
, There is plane about half an inch
but it only goes up few feet"
isn't there streak in the drift?
Il was only in the drift once.
l couldn't say
: That is a pretty important drift IL
be in only once, isn't Il
II thought | saw all there was there.
I isn't there three or four-inch streal
l right along the edge of this drift?
2 There may be. i wouldn't dispute
7 YOU.
[ On redirect examination the witness
said that the 150-foot cross cut is reide
above than below the line. He said th
was due to the water running over 1t
but on fracturing it he found the gran
lite the same in the north cross cut a
:, in the south cross cut.
John Gillie was the plaintiffs No.
g He had lived in Butte since 1881, en-
! gagged as civil and mining engineer. HI
! graduated from Ottawa college, Can
5 ada, in civil engineering in 1873. II
= was employed in Canada and Michi
. gan, and in 1850 he went to Philipsbure
G and to Butte in 1851, remaining her
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