Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-16
Heinze-Harris Case Will End
This Evening.
ARE HEARD
COntended That Accounts of HeinZe
Were Excessive and I'm.
satisfactory.
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Judge Knowles will probably complete
the hearing Of the Heinze-Harris case
this evening. During this mornings ses-
SION he passed upon a number of items
in the monthly accounts, in some cases
reducing the allowances and in others
letting the moun charged stand
F.. Augustus Heinze was ONE of the
witnesses yesterday afternoons. His at
torney offered to prove by him that the
cost of mining at the Anaconda company
was only 1915 per ton and at the
Parrot $2.46 per ION. Mr.. Heinze was
asked with reference to a contract en-
tered into between the Montana Ore Pur-
chasing company and the Chile Mining
company, in which the former agreed to
hoist all the ore of the latter for 10 cents
per ton. Mr.. Heinze said that the con-
tract only lasted a short time and that
the amount charged did not cover the
actual cost OF the work. The lessees at
the Rarus, he said. paid 81 per ton hoist
ing charges.
The arguments in the case began this
morning, Attorney Sinclair representing
the receiver and Judge Mediation APP
pearing for Heinze. The latter contend
ed that all the development work per-
formed ON the Tramway was necessary
to the proper operation Of the Snohomish
and Tramway mines. He believed that
all of Mr.. Heinze's charges were very
reasonable. The opposing ounse con-
tended that the accounts of Heinze were
excessive and very unsatisfactory. There
was no testimony, he said, to show what
supplies had been actually consumed
during the months Of November and De-
cemhpT. The rRcQ1Var was NhQroooh 1o
only for the material used each month.
Judge Knowles, in passing upon the
matter, asked the attorneys to read the
items in detail. He said the great diff
Guilty In passing upon a case of this kind
was that the court had appointed a re-
ceiver to operate a mime upon which
there was no shaft, and that the CO.
tenant operating the mine owned all the
tools and appliances. AS he understood
it, h account Of Heinze was for the
actual supplies furnished the mine, some
OF which were not used during the month
years. In the matter of the charge for
the pump, which was the property of the
Montana Ore Purchasing company, the
court could not make an allowance of
that kind. In the matter of the pumping
he said there had been no evidence intro
duced to show that any water from the
Snohomish was flowing into the Rarus
mine, with the exception of some . or 10
barrels every "a hours from the $50 foot
level. There was no trouble in hosting
that out, yet the Heinze people had pre-
sented a bill for 81, 700 for that work.
All the other items in the bill to which
objections had been made were then
taken up in detail. An objection was
made by the receiver to the firemen's
helper, but the judge held that his SER
vices were necessary, otherwise the COM
pany would not employ him. The Judge
also believed that the services Of Heinze's
Waterman at the mine were necessary.
The services OF the six station tenders
were also considered necessary, but the
court believed that six topmen were not
required to tram the ore on the surface
and only made allowance for two.
The court also liz that some mistake
a been made in allowing four shift
bosses. In his judgment two only were