Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-18
is A COMPLEX
F|SSURE VEIN
Col. Keyes so Describes the
COluSa-Parr0t.
ONE OTHER LIKE II
Declares It to Be the Most Erratic
Vein in the World-Faults
and FiSSureS.
ONLY ONE OTHER LIKE IT

Colonel Winfield Scott Keyes Of Cali
fornia, the last geological witness for the
Colusa-Parrot side of the big mining case
now on trial before Judge Knowles, was
on the stand yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Palmer concluded his testimony
about 3 O'Clock and Colonel Reyes was
sworn. His residence he said was Cali
fornia. and his occupation that of miner.
He had been engaged in mining since
1860. After graduating at Yale he pro-
ceeded to the Royal School Of Mines In
Frerberg, remaining there until 1868.
Returning to America he began an exam-
nation and study of the mines OF the
! Comstock and some gold properties In
California. He went to Sonora, Mexico In
1864 and remained there until 1866.
In 1867 he was appointed superintendent
Of what is now the Hope property at Phil
ipsburg.
In 1868 he came to Butte and at
some of the outcroppings and in the lat
ter part of that year wrote an article on
the resources of Montana. Later he was
metallurgist of the White Pine Smelling
Co., near Hamilton, In the state OF Ne
vada. Since then he has made a great
many examinations of miness in Mexico
and the United States. Colone Keyes said
HE was dl pIcScll IL plOSAOCAN VI kAS
California State Mining Bureau.
Proceeding to the case at issue Colonel
Keyes said that his specially in the min
ing business was working out ore occur
rences and vein phenomena. The study
! had become to him an agreeable occupa-
ton. He had examined the ground in con-
troversy quite frequently spending some
four months in the task. Before proceed
ing to a detailed explanation, however, he
would like to clear the atmosphere a
little by defining the terms lode. assure,
veins, etc., A assure he said was a SIM
pie rack. There are a large variety of
ore deposits which are more or less veins
or lodes. They have various
and some have none. By the aid of charts
Colone Reyes illustrated a number of cur
ious vein structures found in mines. He
quoted at length from Professor Kemp of
the Columbia School of Mines and other
authorities on assures and veins. The
blue vein he commended was nothing but a
series of assures and that this vein was
actually cut off by another assure. He
did not think the dip of the veins amount
ed to much as you could get almost any
dip you wanted. All the assures in the
alleged blue vein belonged to the main
vein system. Asked if a union of the
Anaconda and Colusa-Parrot veins had
occurred Colonel Reyes replied that he
considered the LOO of the Colusa-
Parrot as the point of the grand connec-
ton with the Anaconda vein. The con-
nections above this point We're of a minor
character.
J, Governor Thomas conducted the cross
examination. Governor Thomas asked
I. Colonel Keyes if he considered James
) Furman Kemp a. standard authority on
} mines. He replied that he did. Governor
I Thomas then read several extracts from
I Kemp's latest work on the deposition Of
! ore in the mines of the Butte district.
Yes, the Colusa-Parrot is the most
. erratic mine in the world" declared Col
Reyes this morning during his cross-ex'
animation by Governor Thomas. Col
Keyes at times betrayed some exhibition
of temper under Governor Thomas incl
sive questioning. After making the above
declaration Governor Thomas asked him
if the discovery of the peculiarities anC
vagaries of nature was not his chosen
profession, to which Col. Reyes retortec
that God Almighty placed the mineral II
the earth and some of His ways We're no
understood, even by scientists n mining
experts.
When court convened this morning Col
Keyes was asked to define a master fault
A master fault he said vase principa
fault and necessarily implied the exist
ence of minor or subordinate faults.
DO you find a fault in the ground il
CONTROVERSY" he was asked.
II found 40 fault at all, only a line O
assuring. | found but one small dislo
/ ~A AAS~F
peared below"
You would not call any Of tine north
east fractures faults"'
Il have no means of proving that. The
have varying dips ranging from 20 TO a
high as GO and 20 degrees"
The Colusa-Parrot vein he designate
as a complex assure vein, probably n re
placement vein. 1t was a complex ifs
sure lode down to the 800. The only min
he had ever known or seen that resemble
1 thic ono v,aS a tin mine hafUoan Rohaint
and Saxony.
When did you first know about our blu
vein" asked Governor Thomas.
II inferred about a year and a half ag
that that theory would be sprung by tn
ingenious gentleman on the other sid
At that time l talked the matter aver wit
Mr.. Macfarlane and was e~ndeavoring t
learn what theory might or might NJ
be presented"
Then you were prepared a year and
half ago to combat this theory
YES"
The witness went over the map wi,
Governor Thomas and traced the cast ar
. west assures of the Colusa- Parrot. II
- most northerly of which he said was
- the No. 6 raise. In one drift Col. Key
. testified to what existed there, but belr
pressed by Governor Thomas said he W:
not certain that he ever visited it. +
! said, however. that he a been assur,
by Mr.. Robinson that he had been in
Col. Reyes described the ore bo ~ at tt
500 level of the Colusa-Parrot Al an e.
ID ~traOrdinary occurrence o account of |
appearance on the north and northeas
This ore body, he said, had a round.
bOw--like appearance, but this disappea
= red at or above the 900-foot level. whe
the ore body did not present the san
physical appearance. Asked as to WIFI
a a certain drift, he was describing was ',
Col. Keyes' that he did n