The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-25

ooh, come now, Mr.. Kelly, answer
my question"
Il am not prepared to answer it, as
| made no particular examination
Does it pass along for distance OF
100 feet?"
No, sir
"Seventy-five feet?'
mo, sir"
Fifty feet?''
The witness then made a measure
ment on the map and gave the inform
alton that the distance was 40 feet,
more or less"
Before the cross-examination of Mr..
Kelly had been concluded Mr. Corbett
of counsel for plaintiff stated to the
court that they had a witness from
Salt Lake, James w. Neill, who had
other pressing engagements and was
anxious to get away. 1t was agreed
between the attorneys to suspend the
cross-examination of Mr.. Kelly and put
Mr.. Neill on the witness stand.
Mr.. Neill. in qualifying as an expert,
said he had examined many mines dur
ing his time. He was educated in Ger
many and took the degree of mining
engineer and metallurgist. At present
he is general manager of the United
States Mining company, with head
quarters at Salt Lake. The mines of
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Mr.. Neill said that he was reasonably
well acquainted with the ground in
controversy in the present suit and
that during the past three months he
has spent about Is days underground
in making examinations for the pur-
poses of the trial He had previously
spent about so days underground in
preparation for the Michael Dewitt
case, which was tried in the federal
,,t Il nd n hn1
Mr. Neill. in his testimony. as to the
surface indications on the Rarus and
Johnstown claims covered practically
the same ground and testified to about
the same facts as the preceding eN-
perts. He said that by the outcrop-
pings of the various veins and the sur
face workings the apeXes could be
satisfactorily traced During his testi-
mony about the underground workings
and the ore connections the witness
said the apex of all the slopes on the
400-foot level on a line parallel with
the east end line of the Pennsylvania
claim is in the Rarus claim.
The cross-examination of Mr.. Neill
was conducted by Mr.. Forbis and in
answer to questions as to the union
of the Johnstown and Rarus vein the
witness said a branch of the Johnstown
crosses the Rarus to the north, and
his opinion as to the location of the
apex is that it runs from a point about
20 feet north of the southwest corner
of the Rarus claim to a point just
north of the southeast corner of the
Johnstown. The witness described the
apexes of the different veins as of the
form of wide open scissors.
The witness said that No. 3 raise at
the west end, the drift on the 400 and
the connections down to the 100-foot
level were all on the same continuous
body of ore
DO you find the dip of the vein regu-
lar throughout those workings?'
quite So
Then tell me how it happens that
the 700-foot level is crossed by the 400
level"
The witness could not explain it to
the entire satisfaction of Mr.. FOrbis.
But you insist that both levels are
on the same ore body"
Il say the connection is on continu-
Gus streak of ore" said the witness,
who then offered several explanations
as to why the 700 and 4O0-foot levels
should cross each other
In other words" said Mr.. Forbis,
you have got a badly mixed condition
of the vein there?'
Il identified 1t and -
You are going to stick to it, said