The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-14
A BRIEF SESSION.
Progress of the Anaconda olusa-Parrot

Progress of the Anaconda Colusa- Parrot
Case.
There was a brief sitting Yesterday
in the preliminary of the big Anaconda
Coiusa- Parrot case. An adjournment
was taken at 1870 in the forenoon to 10
| THIS morning. The case so far is abso-
lutely devoid of interest. So far only
the engineers and miners who worke /
IN the ground in question in April and
November of last year have been called
| to testify. They have explained the ma
| ture of the work done at those times,
the engineers showing by their maps
where the work was done and explain
ing the course of the cross-cuts, drifts,
levels, slopes, etc, within the lines east
OF the Colusa-Parrot and those VITA
reference TO the territory west of the
east end lines of the latter property.
Mr. CHRISTIAN, chief engineer, was on
the stand when the hearing was re-
sumed yesterday morning. Mr.. LIE.
handed him exhibit 3, a tracing of one
OF the levels in the Never Sweat, and
asked him If he desired to make any
| correction in his previous testimony in
reference to it. Witness replied that he
had erred the day before when ne
marked on that map the point at which
the miners We're working Witness then
followed the tracings of another man
and explained where work was being
done last November with reference to
the east end line of the Colusa- Parrot.
ON cross-examination witness, with
the aid of the map, explained to Mr.
hughes the workings in the levels and
where work has been performed before
and after the injunction was granted
restraining the Never Sweat people
from extending their work westward or
in what was claimed by the Colusa-
Parrot as it's ground
John p. O'Neill, superintendent of
the Anaconda Copper company mines,
was the next witness He explained
that the Never Sweat shaft was on the
Anaconda lode mining claim, and that
the Never Sweat and Anaconda shafts
were connected by underground drifts.
Witness stated that in April, 1898 his
company had, men working in Colusa
Parrot ground, timbering and cleaning
up drifts. Besides this the men were
driving drift west from the Never
Sweat cross-cut at the 1900 and 1900
levels.
On oss-examination witness ex-
planned through what levels the Never
Sweat and Colusa-Parrot We're connect
ed. He stated that his men were or
dered to go to work in Colusa- Parrot
ground on the 18th of last April and
that they worked there for five or six
days. There We're two men on each of
the 1000. LOO, 1000 and 1900 levels.
William Zaschke, a civil engineer in
the employ of the Anaconda company,
testified that in April and November of
last year men We're working west of the
east end lines of the Colusa Parrot,
blocking timbers and cleaning out
drifts.
Cross-eXamined, witness said that lie
had nothing to, do with the work, and
that he paid no particular attention to
it. He did not know whether the work
was necessary or MOTT was not any
part of his duty to look out for the
miners. w.
T. M. Lynch, a miner employed by
the Anaconda company for IA years last
past, was the next witness. For years
he has been foreman In the Anaconda
mine and Never Sweat shaft. He had
charge of the work in the 1.200 level #
the Never Sweat and on the 9Th of last
November he set two men to work on
the sill floor of that level, up against the
face, block timbering and cleaning up.
On cross-eXamination he stated that
Superintendent O'Neill ordered him to
do the work he had described.
Here an adjournment was taken till
this morning.