The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-20
TOOK A LOOK HIMSELF
Judge Clancy Viewed the Dis
pnted Ground.
TWO EXPERTS WITH HIM
A Conscientious Examination of the Is
sues in Question-Nearly the En-
tire Day Was Sl ent In
the Inspection.

Another chapter was added yesterday
to the celebrated Pennsylvania mining
case in which the Montana Ore Pur-
chasing company is the plaintiff and
the Boston & Montana Mining COM
pany is the defendant, and in which the
evidence was concluded upon Wednes-
day. After listening for over two
months to the evidence presented in the
case. Judge Clancy decided that it
would materially aid him in reaching
a decision if he should obtain some In
formation at first hand concerning the
geological conditions in the ground con-
tanning the ore bodies being iawed over.
So he determined to visit the ground
and secure the desired information in
the way stated and yesterday he de-
scended into the subterranean regions
of the claims involved in the
case and made a personal in
spection Of the east and west
veins the faults, the north and
south lode, otherwise known as the
horse the indurated clay and other
attrition matter in the faults and the
workings exposing the various forma-
lions. The judge set out on his visit
from the court house at $3.50 o'clock in
the morning, spent the day under
ground and returned to the court house
in the afternoon. Upon his return he
was interviewed by a reporter of the
Standard.
Pm pretty tired" said the judge,
when asked for a description of his
trip, and the fact was not surprising
when 1t is remembered that he is man
of advanced years and exceedingly large
physique, weighing about 265 pounds,
and was tramping about underground
from 1890 o'clock in the morning to
~ in he a
derground tour was Of a severe char
acter, but the judge thought it was
his duty to make it and carried it ac-
cordingly.
ut was a calico horse between the
faults" said his honor laughingly,
when the geological formation be-
tween the east and west faults was re-
ferred to.
But some of the workings are too
low to ride horse through" he added,
as some of the caved-in drifts and
slopes in the ground crossed his mind.
According to the testimony of the wit
nesses the horse or north and south
lode is streaked and pied with irregular
ore bodies and fragmentary veins, SO
the aptness of the judges description of
it as a calico horse is evident.
In response to his wishes, his honor
was accompanied by two expert wit
nesses in the case, one representing
each company, and these gentlemen
acted as his guides and preceptors and
furnished him with all the informa-
ton and explanations he desired dur
ing his inspection. The gentleman S.
lected for this important task by the
Boston & Montana company was Will
lam c. Word. one of its leading experts,
who was qualified for it by clear un-
Outstanding of the issues in the case
and thorough knowledge of the con-
-, n I'll al
inson, one of the principal experts for
the Montana Ore Purchasing company.
that corporation with equal
ability. --
The judge and his escorts were con-
veyed to the mines in carriage ana
were lowered underground through the
Rarus shaft. They were received at
the shaft by Nicholas Treloar, the su-
perntendent. who took charge or the
party and attended them during their
inspection of the mine.
The first level visited was the 100
level, where his honor was shown the
east and west Lodges and the faults,
where developed. From there the party
went from level to level inward. visit
ing, the 600. 500, 45o, 400 and 21o levels IN
succession.
The Judge made thorough and con-
scientious examination of all the points
in the ground involved in the issues IN
the case. and listened impartially and
attentively to the able expositions OF
the formations examined, made by Mr..
Word and Mr.. Robinson The latter
gentlemen gave his honor every assist
ance possible and explained the situa-
ton in the ground carefully and clearly
from their relative standpoints. His
honor inspected the clay seams against
the outer walls of the faults, which rep
resent the boundaries of the north and
south lode or the horse between the
faults, saw where the east and west
veins are cut off at the faults. and in
spected the famous brecciated attrition
matter that fills the fault crevices. He
trod on the classic ground where the
sample called injected porphyry by Mr..
Tower was chilled and had the privi-
lege of standing face to face with the
formation from which it came. This is
on the 21o level and forms one of the
most material issues in the case.
This formation fills the fault crevices.
The PLAINTIFFS witnesses called it in
iected porphyry and the defendants
witnesses ballad IL o+tr;t;on natter