Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-19
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P|CC0L0 VEINS
TESTIMONY REGARDING ALLEG-
ED APEX WITHIN MINNIE
HEALEY BOUNDARIES.
BULKHEAD PUT IN TO
PREVENT FLOODING OF MINE
Water From the Minnie Healey
Turned Into the Leonard-Men
Armed With Pick Handles.

The hearing of the order to show cause
on the petition of E.. H. Wilson for the re-
moval of the bulkhead on the 6O0-foot level
of the Gambetta and Piccolo claims and for
permission to do development work in order
to show that the veins of these claims apex
within the surface lines of the Minnie
Healey, was resumed in Department No. 2
of the district court today.
The matter was first taken up last Satur-
day evening, but as the Boston q montana
company, which WINS the Gambetta ana
Piccolo claims, was not FULLY prepared 10
demonstrate to the court that Receiver
Wilson'S position was untenaDle a contln-
uance resulted.
The attendance at the hearing today was
not large, but Notwithstanding this fact
the performers presented their various
house was packed, and gave an excellent
portrayal Of ut does and It doesn't in the
nenay''o was 81 a mtne to show that the
veins of the Gambetta and Piccolo apexed
within the surface .lnes of the Minnie
Healey and testimony was submitted to
demonstrate that they did not. The fact
that the Minnie Healey, the Gambetta and
Piccolo have mineral veins was estaDllshed.
1t was also proven that a cross-cut extends
from the workings of the former into the
two latter and that at the line which d.
vides the Healey from the pair of Boston
& Montana claims the defendant corpora
ton has a bulkhead almost as ponderous
China.
AS a whole, that which the witnesses had
; to say was of no especial Importance to
the outside world. but it was not totally
/ devoid of those little globules of positive
ness made it interesting. On one occasion,
while G.. S. Batterman was being cross
! examined in reference to the ~bulkhead, the
, witness stated that he had guards armed
with pick handles stationed there to see
that it was not removed. Mr.. Batterman
also testified that prior to the driving OF
the cross-cut the water was hoisted from
the Minnie Healey with tanks, but after
wards this water was turned through the
cross-cut into the workings of the Leonard
and it flooded the levels and machinery OF
not been driven either by or at the sug'
gestion of the defendant, and that thu
bulkhead had been placed in it to prevent
the flooding of the Leonard. AS to the
vein which 1t was alleged apexed in Minnie
Healey ground, he said the apex was a few
feet north of the Leggat-Gambetta shaft
which had been sunk to a depth of 60
thorough examination of this shaft, h
said, and found that the ore body wa
continuous from the 600 to within a few
feet of the surface. The vein vas a bi,
strong one, rich in copper it's entire dept
and length. There was no place In 1t tina
the ore would not yield as much as 10 pc
cent in copper, while the vein upon which
the plaintiff had based his action was al
imaginary lawsuit fiction which was sal
to exist. The Piccolo, he said, laid partl.
to the north and partly to the south O
the Gambetta. 1t contained several vein
while the Gambetta had two which unite
at points. It also had two fiat veins dippin
son was STOPPING at the south branch of tn
fifth level. He characterized as a seam O
clay the Minnie Healey vein in conten
ton.