The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-11
BUTTE News.
is STILL ON THE STAND
Clarence King Draws a Large
Audience.
INTEREST Is MAINTAINED
An Attack Upon Soma Evidence Pre-
sented by Mr.. Tower - Indurated
Clay Not Porphyry-The Trial
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INTEREST IS MAINTAINED

The interest in the big Pennsyl-
ence of Clarence King the geologist, on
the witness stand was maintained yes
terday, during which MIR. King con-
tinued to testify. The attendance of
spectators was nearly as large as that
of the day before.
Mr.. King made a vigorous attack
upon the sample of fault matter de-
nominated brecciated porphyry by Mr..
Tower a witness for the plaintiff The
whole forenoon was given over to evil
dence tending to prove that the sub
stance of the sample IS indurated clay
and not porphyry. Mr.. King said that
he was positive the rock is indurated
clay The tests he described as made
by him or at his instance TO determine
the nature of the material We're numer-
Gus and exhaustive. He said that
there is no porphyry of an injected or
dixie character in the faults The ma
teriality of this is perceived when it IS
understood that the plaintiff claims
that the fault assures were not miner
allied because they were filled with in
jected porphyry that kept the mineral
solutions out.
Judge Clancy announced from the
bench Yesterday that he would hold
court for the trial of the case from 9
O'clock in the morning to in the even
ing next week, with an intermission of
one hour at noon. The hours are now
from 10 to 5, with two hours intermis-
sion. The change is made to expedite
the trial.
Mr.. Sands, the chemist, went on the
stand at the opening of the case, at
the request of Mr.. Hughes, who wished
to ask him some questions concerning
the chemical analyses of rock that ne
had made for Mr.. King. Mr.. Hughes
asked the court that the note book
in which Mr.. Sands recorded the
determinations resulting from his
chemical work be produced in court,
so that the plaintiffs counsel might
have access to it and thereby deter
mine whether or not the computations
made by the witness upon the deter
limitations We're correct. The book was
produced.
Mr.. Sands was excused, and Mr..
King took the stand.
A number of samples were put in evil
dence by Mr.. King. One of them was
a rounded fragment from the clay of
the east fault crevice.
ton roundness,' said Mr.. King. AZ
Another sample was dragged balr'
from the clay of the east fault. 1t
had been connected with the dragged
ore mass, and showed movement It
was a mixture of copper sulphide ana
iron sulphde.
AS Mr.. King introduced his samples
he gave their number, explained their
particular character and told where
each came from.
Mr.. King, I wish you would tell the
court about the samples that you save
to Mr. Sands. the chemist, to analyze
for you" said Mr.. Patterson.
After the alleged porphyry forma-
ton in the east fault had come into
some prominence, | met Mr. Tower
underground and asked him where the
sample of brecciated porphyry, known
as the Tower sample, had come from,
and he told me. After studying the
forma ton, from a geological stand
point. I concluded that the substance
was not porphyry. but indurated clay,
and | determined to submit it to chem
ical tests. 1t so happens that on the
21O level, where the Tower sample came
from. there are two bodies of quartz
porphyry. I took samples from both
bodies of quartz porphyry and from the
classic locality of the Tower sample.
There are two distinct types of mate
rial at the latter place. and both are
represented in the Tower sample, be-
ing joined together in it. One is the
part of the sample that is the round
ed, brecciated, cemented matter, and
the other is the smooth, hard clay.
All of the clay samples were taken
from the latter substance" said Mr..
King.
Nov, Mr.. King, you had the spe-