Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-27
TELLS Of
THE BLUE VEIN
Describes Its Nature and Sig
nificance.
|CROSS-EXAMINE EXPERT
Questioned as to Relationship Of Blue
and Diagonal Veins to Main
Veins.
CROSS-EXAMINE EXPERT

cupied the entire forenoon session of the
United States court today when the trial
of the Observation-Disclosures suit was
resumed. The cross-examlnation was
conducted by Mr.. Hughes.
Mr.. King was examined at great
length on the dip and identity of the
blue or fault vein. characteristics, bound
aries, etc, of the Anaconda vein, the
blue vein and the diagonal veins which
run off from the Colusa-Parrot vein.
Mr.. King said the Anaconda vein and
the blue vein We're all part of the same
vein, which had been originally all one
vein. This blue vein or fault had a
south wall. and from the 100 to the 1900
there was a general fissure seam or sep
a~ration, which might perhaps be the
north boundary.
Mr.. King also described the character
istics of the fault at it's point of inter-
section with the Colusa-Parrot.
The blue vein shown on the maps runs
In a southeasterly direction, and near the
point where it is alleged 1T cuts OF the
Colusa-Parrot ore body it forks, the main
body of the fault matter continuing
south and the spur continuing to the
sou theast. Several diagonal veins, or
veins cutting the Colusa-Parrot and An
aconda main veins, We're shown
Mr.. King said hat these diagonal hs-
sures might be part OF the blue vein sys-
| tenn, but were mot perhaps a part OF the
! fault. The blue vein, he explained, was
made partly by the fault and partly by
! naturalization. There was evidence OF
movement in portions of the fault, just
as there We're evidences in all assures.
! and even in the Anaconda vein itself.
! Mr.. King commended that only a small
portion of the eastern spur from the blue
vein contained ore, the most of the ore
being on the hanging wall side. On the
south end of the blue vein it had a dip
Of about "a degrees. n in some places
was so degrees. The ore in the main
body of the blue vein narrows in nanny
places, but at no place was there any in
dication of the vein itself narrowing.
The Irregularities of the fault were
then dwelt upon, Mr.. King giving his
theory of the "feathering" and drag
ging OUT of the Anaconda vein.
Mr.. Hughes pointed out that on the
50O-foot level the Anaconda vein is shown
"feathering'' north at the point where 1t
meets the fault, and on the 1900 1T
~"feathered' south.
Mr.. King was asked to explain this APP
parent discrepancy or i~rregularlty. He
+, replied that such things frequently Oc-
CURED in the geological world, and
that the first place where this change
had occurred had been noticed at the
12oo-foot level of the Anaconda. Such in
constituencies of nature, he said, happened
not infrequently.
Continuing Mr.. King said the fault be,
tween the two veins of the Anaconda ant
j Colusa Parrot was a gravity fault. Tht
two veins We're of the same age
MI. King said that at the 300 of thu
Colusa- Parrot there was in the No
raise a assure cutting through the veil
but it had not been opened sufficient,
when examined by witness to determine
whether it was a part of the blue sys
tenn. A diagonal vein had also beef
shown in No. 5 raise at the 400, but Mr.
King said it's dip was different and he dit
no think it was the same vein. In thu
diagonal veins of the Colusa- Parrot, OIL
the east side they were only a few In
We're 6, 8 or 10 feet wide. On the 600 thu
diagonal vein, witness said, was onl,
a few inches in width.
Mr.. King yesterday spoke of a forkinl
Of the Anaconda vein and to-day Nj
Hughes asked him where the eastern
point of separation was located. MI
King replied that it was on the east en-,
line of the Ramsdeli-P Parrot. on the 60
foot level. The vein reopened and clos
ed at various points again or the west
Mr.. King in reply to another question
said that with the exception of one leve
there was no enlargement of mineraliza
ton at the point where the diagonal vein
crossed the lode.
Mr.. King was examined at great length
on the dip of the north and south vein
OF the Anaconda, their curvature an,
variation and their relation to the blu
vein and the vein of the Colusa-Parro
Asked as to the south vein of the Ana
conda. Mr.. King said there was reali,
no south vein al it was all one vein witt
a horse between. South of the Amazon
da on what was known as the Bricke
shaft there was what was called a sout
Anaconda vein but it was not within tn
limits of the Anaconda claim.