Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-13
THE TENTH WEEK
Of Big Mine Vein Suit Com
menced With Today.
THE ACTION OF WATER
On Rock Illustrated By Clarence King
- Judge Lindsay's CAL
endar.

Today inauaurated the first day of the
tenth week of the trial OF the SUIT OIL
the Montana Ore Purchasing company
against the Boston 4 Montana company
to decide title to the VEN OF the fehh-
s~ylvania mine. When the hearing was
first begun a few interested persons pre-
dicted that it would consume at least q
month of the courts time. While O. heis
expressed the belief that it would last !,
| three months. Among those who shared
! the latter was Attorney John Forms. one
of the able advisers on The SIDE or lhe
| defense. Although Mr.. k:n IS the iast
of the sixteen witnesses allowed by the
| court, there VII proba ~ be enough re-
! buttal testimony to consume the lai ger
| part of neNt week. TnAn the arguments,
if any are to be made. Will come. ms
! gives Mr.. Forbis and his co-predlctors
| the edge on the others.
An interesting piece OF gossip in con-
, nection with the suit is the expense OF us
conduction. The managers of the inning
| companies party to the action have
| neither given out nor authorized The pub
| licity Of the amount of money it will have
cost them to lay their respective sides
| before the court. but by taking refuge
! behind that we'll worn ana more than
grizzled expression, lit is said" it can be
! stated that it will come high. Some one
said the outside experts alone have eacll
been receiving $3.50 per day-raln, snow
or shine-and the attorneys a sum greatly
in excess of this amount. In the Ian
guage of the western Spectator, this IS
only a marker to the general expense
attached to the preparation ana conduc-
ton Of the hearing. At this stage of the
proceedings officers of the court are Won
1arinp M Ia t the condition of a llrV would
be had the motion, made by the defend
ant at the outset of the trial, to try the
case by jury instead of before the judge
sitting as a court of equity, prevailed.
The members would not have been al
lowed to separate. They would have
been permitted to take an occasional
walk around the block in the mpan of
an officer. take their meals at a hotel and
sleep in a room in the court house. but
this would have been about the extent of
their liberties.
Clarence King. who has been on the
witness stand several days, is acknoWl-
edged to be one of the most eminent geol-
ogists in the United States. He is the
father of the government geological sur
vey system and a member of the Ma
tional Academy of Science. He was
graduated from Yale. In personal APP
pearance he is of medium height, fairly
i stout. possesses a rather full face hav-
ing a short, grey beard and mustache.
His hair, or wha: there is left of it,
hovers betWeen a grey and dark.
The testimony given by Mr.. King today
related principally to the result of his
examination of the underground OPEN
ingS of the property III controversy, par
taking to a considerable extent of the
mineral Indications in certain parts and
the result of the action of water on sui
phlde and oxidized ores. Referring to
the water proposition, he said the
moisture found at what is known as the
i wafer level of "A VEIN WAS not DpcpSCa1il Y
of local surface origin. 1t might come for
miles underground and in its course be
deprived of its g 1t all. however.
came from the surface at some point. He
did not believe that local surface water
descended below the surface of the sta
tionary body, and expressed the belief
that the latter Was held IN place by some
hydrostatic pressure, probably the source
whence ii came.
While giving his version of the process
of decomposition, Mr.. King was asked II
a body of water charged With sulphate OF
copper and iron should in it's downward
\ course come in contact with a vessel full
! of plain water. the specific gravity of thu
former would not cause the vessel tc
J overflow and the lighter water escapt
I at the sides and continue its downward
course until it came in contact with
: water of its own gravity. Thu witness
\ thought it would.
! rs it not true asked Mr.. Hughes
Z that water loses its oxidizing propertie!
I as it descends into the earth
THAT depends was the reply.
s Mr.. King CAV the result of his own ex
> perience and investigation as to the &C
4 ton of seeplng water in a mineral vein
following with an explanation of the diff
= ference between precipitates, c. u. S.
and mineral. He said there was as mucl
} as there was between a pile of brick an,
3 the court house, a fact he had demon
I strated by practical test in his labora
4 tory.
Judge Lindsay will hold two session
: of court tomorrow, one of which will be
gin at 10 O'Clock and the other at 9. A
4 his own room in the court house has bee
6 in the hands of artisans during the las
\ mon and is not yet in shape for occu
: pancy he will transact his business i
the United States court room in the post
r office block. His calendar will be as fol
= lows:
10 O'CLOCK.
Estate of Thomas Stees: petition fo
= probate of will.
Estate of A. c. White; settlement G
Z account and hearing of objections to it.
Estate of Frank Stephens; petition G
r. d. Evans.
. Estate of Joseph X. Richards; petitio
I Louis Willard VS.. Frank Willard; plain
tiff's proofs.
4 Lee Mantle ct al. VS.. John S. Sharp {
. al: plaintiffs proofs as to Defendar
. Johnson.
9 O'CLOCK.
4 Estate of Jacob Bruesh; settlement I
6 account and distribution.
! Estate of Marie Bertha Wolf; settle
Z ment of account and distribution.
Estate Of Frank ProuiX; petition fl
e letters.
u Estate of Oyila Prouix; petition for lie