Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-21
Of ORE
EXTRACTED
F. L. SiZer Estimates It at
$4,000.
THE NEVERSWEAT
Mr.. Pyle Sampled the Ore Bodies at
Midnight and Made Assays
' at 4 a. m.
FROM THE NEVERSWEAT

The first witness in the trial of the suit
of the COlusa-Parrot Mining company VS..
the Anaconda was George w. Newkirk.
Mr.. Newkirk said when he came to this
state in 1868, it was a portion of Idaho.
He came to what is now known as Silver
Bow county in 1864. He recalled the To-
cation of the Parrot lode during Septem-
Der or October of the year 1864, being
with the parties who located the original
Parrot claim. They We're Dennis Leary
and H. H. Porter, and the witness was
living with them at the time they made
the location. A three-cOmpartments
shaft was sunk on the vein to a depth
Of about 40 feet. This vein carried sill
yer and copper and was six or seven
feet wide. There was no method of treat
ing quartz at that time and he mine
was allowed to remain idle. Then Por-
ter sold out his interest to Talbot and
Dow and in 1866 a crude smelter was
const. 4Gted near the Parrot shaft to
test this ore. 1t was not a success,
however. Leary and Porter, the witness
said, had also located the Shakespeare
lode along side the Parrot, but the lOca-
ton was made on a separate vein. Claims
under the mining laws then were only
100 feet wide.
David N. Upton, the next witness said
he came to is now known as Mon
He had lived here continuously ever
since. When he first came here he
pitched his camp in what is now known
as Dublin gulch, where the Parrot lead
crosses the gulch. The Colusa- Parrot at
that time was being worked by the Por-
for hrOtharS and IOa RamS6a11. He was
acquainted with the present site of the
Anaconda mine and he had once made
a location on or near it which he called
the Lookout.
June IA, 1867. He knew nothing about
the location Of the Colusa-Parrot but
remembered that shipments were being
made to, Corinne from it by Airport &
Parks.
M. L. Mcdonald of the firm of Harper
ing made a map of the underground
workings of the Colusa-Parrot and Never
mines. He described in detail
the workings of the Never Sweat giving
the 500 to the 1, 300-foot levels. He could
not say how much of this work had been
one as development for the purposes of
the present suit.
Joseph c. Pyle, assayer and chemist,
testified to having made a number of as
says of samples taken from what is
known as the '~'trespass openings" run
ming from the Never Sweat into the CO.
lusa-Parrot. He was asked to testify
as to what these assays showed, but At
tOrney ScallOn interpOsed an objection on
the ground that it had not been shown
that the ground from which the samples
had been taken had been opened up since
the commencement of this suit. The OBJ
lection was sustained and the witness
was asked as to the assays on the 900
showed. Another objection was raised
anu before it was decided court adjourn
ed for the day.
When court convened this morning
Witness Pyle was asked to state where
he took samples and what We're the re-
suits. He stated that he had sampled
the face of the Slope on the 11O0-foot
level of the Never Sweat. about 30 feet
west of the east crOSScut. The breast
of ore he aid was 20 feet wide and SAM
pied % and 40 per cent copper and II
and 16-100 ounces silver.
How did you take the sampler"
II took the sample across the entire
breast"
"Take the 1900 and state results"
"On the 1900. in he west face of the
Slope and also across the back of the
drift. a distance of % feet, the copper
values We're 8 and $40 per cent and the
silver values 8 and 24-1OO ounces"
Take the 1300."
"On the 1900, about s or 10 feet west OF
the back in the east crosscut of the
Never Sweat, across the breast of the
Slope a distance of 2S feet the copper
values were and lilo per cent and the
silver 5 and 12-100 %ounces.'
Did you take samples and max.
assays from ore in the drift of the 13u0-
foot level of the Never Sweat about $50
feet from the east line of the Coluga-
ParrOt?"
1T is stopped on the sill loor there and
on the first floor above: also On the 1900 OF
the Never Sweat for about SO feet to the
west. and IN the 100 for about TO FEET
to the west. where l took the sam i
pies"
On cross-examination by Governor
Thomas, the witness was asked when he !
took the samples.
AT midnight last night replied the
witness with a yawn.
when did you do the a%ssaying?
fAbout 4 o'clock this morning"
why did you make the assays then %
well. because we did not make them
before"
Witness said the purpose of his other
samples was not to form q basis for
damages.
1.-THE other tests were made, l suppose. |
to determine when you were in ore and
when In country rock ~ he was asked.
mo-: they were made to determine the |
silver and cJpnGr contents.'
o the il0o-foot level you say you
sampled a breast of ore 20 feet wide
How high was that face of ore up and |
down?'
about six feet
Elbow large a sample did you take?"
"About 50 pounds. l crosscut the vein j
with the sample |
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