The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-27
Suggested By Cross-examination
Of Mammoth Expert.
Especial TO The Herald.J

sharp Tre he had to undergo and both
men were clearly faugued when it was
over. The attorney went with Mr.. Gill
lies over much of his testimony in
chief on Saturday. Finally he began
quizzing him this afternoon shortly af-
ter court opened on the hanging wall
and the foot wall of the wen in lot IS,
At point about 200 feet north of the
1100-fOOt line. where the apex is claim
ed they had reached the 300 level of
the Mammoth in their journey through
the mine The expert had testified that
the Wien was 200 feet wide at the sur
face when Judge Dickson pumped this
question at him; 1.-The wien which was
200 feet wide at the surface. in the
neighbOrhOOd of the raise to the Plum
mer tunnel. the 300 level, the foot wall
and tha hanging wall have intersected,
haven't they?"
Intersection or Pinch Out.
"There is apparently an intersection
on the strike" was the reply.
Next Judge Dickson asked: 'Of your
wien? The loot wall and the hanging
wall have come together and cut the
wien out there, haven't they?"
No; said whether this was the foot
wall of the back fissure al this point,
I couldn't state"
You said that you thought it WASP
I thought il was"
Assuming that you are correct about
that hanging wall and that the dyke
is the hanging wall on this same level
as the raise to the Plummer tunnel
haven't YOU the foot wall and the
hanging wall coming together and cut
ting your Wien Out2 And the foot and
the hanging wall of your Wien have in
tersected, haven't they?"
If you accept the drift as the foot
wall in the back fissuTe, yes sir.
And if your opinion is correct, that
the foot wall is found in that drift
at that point then ii follows that YOUR
foot wall and hanging wall have in
tersected each other. doesn't it?''
Yes, sir AS I said before. there
seems to be an intersection there
Grand CentraI's Defense.
It will readily be seen that if the de-
Tense can show that the hanging wall
and the foot wall of the original Mann
moth vein have come together it may
also be in a position to attempt to
prove that the Grand Central ore is
another body altogether from the
Mammoth The 300 foot level concern
ing which Mr.. GiIIies testified, is far
above the disputed ore bodies which lie
in and between the 700 and 500 levels.
Judge Dickson also asked a good
many questions about the dip of the
ore body in controversy. He wished
TO know if the dip of the ore body was
vein. Mr.. GiIlies answered that he
couldn't say, because not enough work
had been done there.
Assuming that the dip of the ore
body is the same as the dip of the
vein. what would the direction of the
strike of the vein be?" was the next
inquiry. Mr.. GiIlies replied that if
Judge DickSOn'S suTmiSe was correct
the strike of the vein would be nearly
east and west. A rather jovial COLO
guy about what would be called an
ideal assure vein ended the main cross
examination.
John NJ. Zane then asked a few ques-
tons on redirect examination. after
which Judge Dickson inquired about
the character of the surroundings of
the ore in the 700 and 500 levels. Mr..
Gillies said that the workings for some
hundreds of feet east and west and
south were barren lime rock, but that
toward the north there were iron stains
and calcspar. During part of the re-
crOSs-eXaminatiOn Attorney Suther-
land came to the front with a. strong
objection to Judge DicksOn's style of
putting suggestions cases to the wit
ness.
An Exchange of Bouquets.
I won't say anything in criticism of
the witness. although / might" re-
turned the Grand Central man.
n. I II,
'torted Mr.. Sutherland. And with that
the incident closed.
The last witness was Charles W.
Watson, who said he had been a miner
for forty years in Utah, Idaho. Mon
tana and Nevada Mr.. Watson was
familiar with the original Mammoth
mine. He was superintendent of the
property during a part of 1891. He
swore positively that the apex Of the
vein was i'm lot IS. He was in the
midst of a description of the ore bodies.
and was being examined by Mr.. Zane
when court adjourned until 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
The train from Salt Lake was d few
minutes behind time in arriving this
morning and court did not open until
after II o'clock. Expert Gillies for the
Mammoth side, who was undergoing
crOsS-examinati ton when court adjourn
ed Saturday afternoon, again took the
stand. Judge Dickson fired question
after question at the witness. going
over with him in detail the character
and quality of ore found within the
original Mammoth claim and outside
of it. from the surface to the 700 and
500 levels.
The crOss-exa minatiOn bore more par
ticularly on that portion of lot IS
north of a line on the maps known as
q a. This lire is zoo fet north of the
Dickson wished to find out where Mr.
Gnlies found ore on the surface north
Of the line a a and within lines Of
Lot SO. He asked if it wasn't a fact
that the witness had found no ore
whatever within the boundary speci-
fed. Mr. Gillies replied that he had
found ore in open cut IS.
Where south Of cut Is and north of
the line a a within the side lines of
lot IS. have YOU found anything that
carries an appreciate value?"
Discussion of Ore.
Mr.. GiIlies at first said he had found
ore of the quality described in open
cut 1. An examination of the contour
map, however, showed that cut 1 was
not within the boundaries of the terri
tory which Judge Dickson wished to
cover. A close examination of the
drawings resulted in the statement
by the expert that ore had been found
west and north of cut 49,
The question is as to the territory
south Of open cut IS and north of the
line "a" said Judge Dickson
II believe there is ore south and on
to the west OF open cut Is. between