The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-10
EVIDENCE is ALL IN
Closing Up the Crown Point
Ontario Case.
WILL ARGUE TOMORROW
STRONG TESTIMONY YESTERDAY
IN THE MINING SUIT.

me case Of the Crown Point Mining
company against the Ontario. so far as
the taking of evidence is concerned.
was brought to a close yesterday af-
ternoon, and tomorrow arguments will
be heard. By agreement each side will
be limited to three hours and there is
little doubt but the jury will have re-
celved their instructions and had the
case placed in their hands before the
usual hour of adjournment
The trial has been a most remarkable
one IN one sense at least. and that is
IN the large number Of witnesses ex-
amlned and the relatively short time
consumed in accomplishing it,
In the forenoon yesterday Professor.
w. S. Reyes, L. U. Goliath, Matt. Con-
nelly and Charles L. Rood were placed
on the stand and at the conclusion of
their testimony, contrary TO the ex-
pectations of the plaintiff, the defense
declared its case closed.
A short consultation between coun-
sci for plaintiff resulted in their re-
calling E. e. Chase to give evidence in
rebuttaL He was followed by Charles
H. Brown, Henry M. Crowther and w.
H. Wylie.
Rigid Examinations.
The direct and cross examination of
each witness yesterday was most
thorough and penetrating, this being
particularly true of the handling of
Professor Keyes and Messrs. Chase
and Wylie. The question of apex was
the all-absorbing subject, and every
attempt of the defense to show that
the Ontario ledge traversed the whole
length of that claim was stubbornly
combatted by the opposition, which
pulled every string with a determina-
ton to jerk it through the south side
before the west end of the claim was
reached.
The day opened with Professor
Reyes as the first witness, and under
the skillful questioning of Judge Street
he not only substantiated the testi-
mOny given by previous experts for the
defense, but went them a few better
on some points. In his exploration of
the Last Chance, for instance, where
previous witnesses had told Of running
across two or three assures. he testi-
fed to having found no less than
seven four of them within the vertical
side lines of the Last Chance claim
and three farther to the south. In
addition was what was known as the
Banner vein running nearly north and
south.
The assures in the Last Chance
dipped nearly vertical and conformed
in a general way to the dip of the On
tario fissure. He also explained the
dip of the transverse vein which
crossed the south side line of the On
tario, and expressed the opinion that
they would surely unite at depth.
CToss-examined by Dickson-COn-
verging lines will meet somewhere?
Yes"
Vertical lines never?" Don't need
an expert to show that"
who was in charge of the prepara-
ton for this trial, you or Palmer?" Il
couldn't say. Some of Mr.. Palmer's
work was done under my advice.
Fissures in the Ontario.
In reply to further questions by Mr..
Dickson, witness said there were a
number of assures in the Ontario;
they are usually found in clusters, the
general courses being eaSterly and
westerly. though some ran in the di-
reetiOn of the transverse vein.
Asked which of the assures found in
the Last Chance was continuation
of the Ontario, witness said either of
them might be. The fissure claimed to
run west from the point where the
transverse vein starts sOutherly.
through the Ontario side lines, was at
tempted by Mr.. Dickson to be shown
to run in a course which would carry
it south of a junction with the Ontario
vein according to it's general course
through the easterly portion of the
claim. but witness would not agree
to it.
To Judge Street witness said that
the assure in the west end, carried in
it's proper direction, would meet the
Ontario fiSsure.
L. Z. Goliath described the workings
in the Banner claim and showed the
course of the vein as it ran through
that. as well as the Henrietta and De-
cident claims.
To Mr.. McGurrin- he said the tracings
on the map had been made to show