The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-06
BIG MINING SUIT
DRAGS At NEPHI


Nephi, Utah, Dec. 5.-From the de
scription OF Grand Central workings
and ore bodies, and t'e ore bodies Of
the Mammoth from the 600 level Of the
Grand Central down. the ore bodies of
the two mines would seem 10 he in the
shape OF \, the right hand arm of
the V representing the Mammoth's
vein and the left hand arm of the vein
representing the Grand Centrai's vein
or ore bodies; and il is few hundred
feet up from the apex OF the \ on the
Grand Centraf5 side that we find the
ground in dispute me Grand Central
struck their ore o. the 500 of their
workings, by q shelf or drift running
IN an easteTly direction about 500 feet.
From the point that they struck Gre
they nave followed it upward. general
y speaking, but a few feet above the
SEQ. In the Gulf stope is perhaps the
only place where there Is any outcrOp
ct the vein. especially from that point
north.
G. 2. Brooks was recalled this morn
inS for further crosse Examination on
the maps, with a view to showing some
Inaccuracies in the maps
Pat D0nnally was sworn As an expert
miner Tor the Grand Central. and teS-
tilted that he had about twenty years
experience, most OF the time as fore
man or shift boss About fourteen
years he had been in the employ OF the
I BuiI0n-Beck and tfe last six years
had been working for tfe Grand Cen
trail. He said that ne had been over
the surface of the Mammoth lot 80
from end to end a great many times
/ during the last five years. He had been
IN the Mammoth tunnel +. and said it
! was hard lime in there. with perhaps
q little iron stained, especially in the
! little branch that runs north but he
I FFRrrvr y "a
tive OF a vein for there was no sort of
mineral He has also been in No.
cut and found nothing there bat lime.
/ he had been in the Condor tunnel and
[ found a dixie. and also in cuts No g
and No and found dike
In the Grand Central open cut there
/ IS part of it in a dixie and part of il
IN the limestone. IA cut No. % there
! was nothing but linee. scnle OF il a lit
Tie iron stained, and in open cut /
I there was lime IN all theae cuts the
witness said that at the surface there
would be little iron stain in the
seams He had been through all the
cuts shown on the maps He said that
at the surface for hundreds OF feet ca st
ana west there were stains OF iron in
the lime. AM Gale spar. With that end
IN Nlev- he had examined the surface
GEAR To the Quartzite, or west of lot 81
Ior mile or a mile and a half and
found those stains or iron and calcite
an the lime in seams. He said there
were no signs of mineral on the sur
lace anywhere north Of the King shaft.
IN any portion Of lot IS The question
is. asked Mr. Dickson. whether in your
/ opinion as miner you found the apex
Of any vein at any place or the out
crop Of any vein at any place within
/ lot 81 north OF the northeast portion
OF the Cunningham stone where that
comes to the surface? No was the
witness answer.
The witness was then taken To the
general map and there he described
the various Slopes. and told where ore
I had been encountered in their various
workings George Sutherland, in cross
examining the witness. went into detail
as to the ore bodies and where ore was
found in the Grand Central
ON cross examination of Mr.. Donelly,
he expressed the opinion that the ore
body in the Grand Central extending to
the ground in dispute. was simply a
pine The strike of the ore bodies he
gave substantially as the preceding wit
ness.
w A. Wilson, Grand Central ex-
pert, was the next witness. He had
found ore, he said, ia small quantities
! at a few points northeriy from the
Betsy stope. but the remainder of the
nor aeriy locality. he said. was bar
rem. He found no indications of the
apex of the vein in lot 80 north Of the
Cunningham stOpe. He attached no
! Importance to the OutCrop found along
the surface of lot 50 along She Cum
bingham st0pe. and said that The same
F kind of formation was found all over
the country in almost every direction.
He gave the strike of-the ore bodies
from the south end of lot IS through
the Grand Central workings rs north
erly. northwest and then northerIy.
Mr.. Wilson was CroSS-e8ami lined at
great length as to samples OF rock
which he had taken over an extended
area. His examine ton had not been
concluded when court adjourned