The Anaconda standard., 1899-09-02
veins in the lode, and that the faults

veins in the lode, and that the faults
displaced them?''
Yes, sir
you cut them tNo nUw?'
Yes, after the r .at- vein
joins the Rarus.'
Mr. Tower said that he made his ex-
animation of the contested ground in
1896, and that at that time the Slopes
west of the west transverse fissure
came up to it and stopped.
They stop there now, do they not?"
asked Mr.. Scalon.
No, sir"
Does not the stope on the 700 level
of the Rarus on the north connecting
vein practically stop at the west fis-
sure?'
VERY close to it,"
You notice that popularity of the
stopes-that they end at the transverse
tissures, do you not?"
Yes, sir"
What do you say as to the trans
verse assures now? Has there been a
displacement or not?'
The witness answered that he could
not say whether there had been move
ment there or not. He said it was
practically impossible to determine
this. He explained that movement is
shown by displacement the presence
of clay, rounded rock fragments and
is no difference between the appearance
of clay brought in by movement or
water and that resulting from the de-
composition of the country rock. He
believed the clay was formed by the
decomposition of the rock where it
is found, and that there had been mo-
ton on the assures, but that it pre-
ceded the naturalization and forma-
ton of the porphyry dyke.
Mr.. Tower said that the geological
formations took place in the follow
ing order. First the granite, then the
porphyry dykes, transverse assures and
porphyry fissures: then the east and
west fissure veins; then naturalization,
and lastly the changes caused by mo-
| ton.
He said that the transverse fissures
| have not been the primary seats Of
| naturalization but have been the seats
| of secondary naturalization, which is
! produced by the seeping of minerals
! from above into the tissures. This
| same process, according to the wit
ness, produces mineralzed granite, by
| filing the little cracks and assures in
| it with minerals. The maximum dis
| tance on either side of a fissure sub
| ject to this process was placed at 80
feet by Mr. Tower.
Some time was occupied in ascertain
ing the length of the transverse fis-
SuTeS, ana the Witness llndly dSISeu
| that it was a distance of 800 feet from
| their most southerly ascertained reach
| to the most northerly, taking the data
| from different levels.
The witness said that any ground
| showing an appreciable trace of min
| eral matter was mineralized ground,
| and should be included in the fissure or
| lode to which it was subsidiary.
There are three veins in the Rarus
| lode, are there not?" asked Mr.. Seal
| Ion.
| Yes, sir"
And the mineralized ground may
extend so feet on either side of any of
| them?'
Yes. sir"
! Then, would you call the three
veins and all the ground between them
one lode?"
| Yes. sir
Then if there was another system
of veins on one side of these veins,
with mineralized rock between, you
would call it a part of this lode also,
| would you not?"
The witness reflected and finally said
| that lode was determined by the
| grouping and association of it's veins.
You said that the coordination of
| fissures forms them into a lode. By