The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-18

feet east of the junction shaft. The
apex of the Johnstown discovery vein
crosses the Rarus vein and becomes
partly identified with it, but a branch
of it crosses the Rarus and leaves the
Johnstown east end line about 40 feet
north of the southeast corner.
The width of the North Connecting
vein, west of the junction shaft. varies
from three and four feet to 10 feet. The
Rarus vein west of the junction is
about IL feet at a point known as shaft
No. 8. Mr.. Macfarlane said there We're
several other quartz streaks from three
to six feet wide, which he considered
part of the Rarus vein. The answer of
the witness as to the width of the
Rarus vein was not satisfactory to Mr..
Patterson, and he repeated his question.
THE width of the vein streaks are
from three to II feet" said the witness.
Can you answer my question by Civ
ing approximately in number of feet
the width of what you consider the
Rarus lode?'
II think l have done So.
You have not, and will you please
answer my question:
Il should say the entire width of the
lode east of the junction shaft covers
about 40 feet: that is near the surface.
Lower down it spreads out. The width
of the Rarus on the 500-foot level of the
junction shaft is IS feet. and it contin-
ues to widen from there down. The
JohnStown vein, in the Harris & Lloyd
tunnel, Is from is to 20 feet wide and
at the 70O-foot level it's width is IA feet.
The Rarus vein, on the 700-foot level,
said Mr.. Macfarlane, is ATS feet. The
witness said that in his opinion the
Johnstown vein became part and par
eel of the Rarus vein. He said he could
trace, satisfactorily to himself, the
Johnstown apex to its junction with the
Rarus, but from that point east he &c
garded it as part of the great Rarus
lode, which has all apex $50 feet wide
and width of nearly 500 feet at the
7OO-foot levei. The itarus lode is made
up of numerous veins or vein streaks,
and Mactarlane said he regarded .he1n
as one lode because the different VEINS
could not be serai ated or worked sep
arately. There are so many veins inter-
laced that it would be Impossible to
separate them or sreak of them separ-
ately.
"Mr. Marfarlane, what is your dehn-
ition of a lode?" asked Mr. Patterson.
"A coordinate system of mineralized
assures. nearly parallel, with more or
less mineralized country rock between
them" was Mr.. Macfarlane's answer.
Where do you find any such defin-
ition of a lode?"
We'll, l have read the dehnition
somewhere
Did you read it somewhere or did
you evolve the definition from your
own experience"
Il read it. and it complies with the
conditions in this district"
What is your definition of a Vein?'
"Any fissure filled with mineral
The witness said he included in his
definition of a lode all veins and ifs
sures that Joined or connected at any
place.
Does your definition provide for any
number of such joining tissures?'
1T includes all assures within certain
limits. In this case it includes all ifs
sures between the vein streak on the
foot wall and hanging WALL
In answer to other questions the
witness said that in raising on the wall
of one such fissure it was not neces-
sary to follow it to the surface to es-
tablish the vein, but could jump from
one fissure to another it depending a
great deal on the character of the
country.
What is the widest part of the Ra-
rus vein as shown by Development
the witness was asked.
Gross section t. probably shows
the widest part of that vein, where it
has been worked"