The Anaconda standard., 1899-09-03
brecciated rocks was read by the wit


ness.
Does the matter you have read agree
with your statements about the brecci-
ated porphyry you found in the Rarus
mine?" asked Mr.. Corbett.
1T does" answered the witness, and
the redirect examination closed.
Mr.. Scallon read a different chapter
on breccias from the book, and asked
Mr.. Tower if he agreed with it also, and
he said he did
The witness said that the composition
of the granite and the quartz porphyry
of this region is about the same, the
latter containing a little more silica
than the former.
He placed the intersection of the
transverse assures on the $50 level
north of drifts 152 and 153 He said the
intersection was computed from the
dips and strikes of the fissures and not
by actual observation.
The witness said in answer to a ques-
ton by Mr.. Scallon that he knew that
much of the development work in the
controVerted ground had been made for
the purposes of the present litigation.
The official report he made of the con-
troVerted lodges in 1896 embodied his
opinion at that time. That opinion
agreed with the opinion of the man who
showed him through the mine then. 1t
was unqualified then, and the state
ments made in the Butte folio were
given as facts
Stephen Raymond went on the stand
and testified to assays he had made,
and then the eminent mining and en-
ginering expert, George H. Robinson,
of Salt Lake, was placed on the stand
by the plaintiffs.
Mr.. Robinson stated that he had been
educated as a surveyor and civil en-
in C1,h tJ1v I,n q
an engineer on eastern railroads. After
that he was engaged in civil and min
ing engineering from 1879 till 1882 at
Leadville, Colo, where he had much ex-
perience in silver and lead Mines He
then passed year and half at Helena,
Mont, where he engaged in a general
mining business.
He was the engineer and the general
and the assistant manager of the Drum
mine from 1885 to 1892. He was the
manager of the Mercury Mining COM
pany at Salt Lake for two years and
later was general agent and manager
of the De Lamar mines. He first came
to Butte in 1898. He helds a position
with the plaintiffs here.
He stated that he was familiar with
the grounds and the lodges Of the
Rarus mine in dispute, having studied
them continuously since being engaged
by the plaintiffs.
Mr.. Robinson was asked by Mr.. Cot
ter to outline the boundaries of the
Johnstown, Rarus and Johnstown COM
promise claims. The first time he did
this his testimony was stricken out as
containing hearsay matter, upon mo-
ton of Mr.. Patterson, after a wrangle
between the opposing counsel.
The witness, like his predecessors,
went over the boundaries, workings,
/ Lodges, ore bodies and similar matters
at great length, and his testimony de-
Veloped nothing new.
He said he wished TO emphasize the
fact that there Isl no interruption in
the continuity of the paying ore in the
Johnstown vein in its crossing of the
Rarus vein and the transverse assures.
He said the Johnstown ledge is a
/ splinter fracture and that the inter-
section of the JOhnstown and Rarus
lodes on the 450 level is west of the
transverse assures; also that he never
saw a ledge so absolutely continuous
and unbroken as the JohnstoWn ledge
anywhere outside of Butte and Park
City Utah.
The court adjourned till 10 O'Clock
Tuesday, with the witness still on the
stand.