Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-04-30

as the Court is left by the evidence
with the MacNamara-W West End Vein
dipping downward to the north be-
yond the MacNamara, 1t is left with
the suggestion that development on
that side shows something Of the
geological relation of this vein with
others, especially as one attorney
used the expression under many
other claims" QLindley, 1929 The
Siebert Fault gets it's name in this
case from fault of that name in
the territory of the Tonopah Com
pany but no correlation OF the two
was demonstrated. The testimony in
the case Is voluminous, occupying
1130 pages of transcript, yet 1t is
plain to be seen that il could have
been much more extensive. AL this
Is mentioned here as cautionary and
as indicating how helpless we are in
facing great geological problems
whether the word "anticline" is
applicable here or not. the word
"anticlinal" has broader meaning
and is more applicable. II is defined:
'lnclining or dipping in opposite III
rections." eAnticlinal axis" Is de-
fined: "A line from which strata dir
in opposite directions, as from the
ridge of roof" The MacNamara-
West End Vein is anticliaal, using
the word literally; and. Il so, it
has presumably, an anticlinal axis.
AS a proposition of law the plaintiff
company holds that If this is true.
there can be no extralateral rights,
because there is no true apex, as the
existence of an apex involves the ex-
istence of terminal edge; that there
can be no terminal edge ii the vein
goes mp one slope, turns over, and
goes down the other. This feature
Of the case is so momentous that il
must be decided as a question of fact
first TO what extent an anticlinal
axis actually exists.
The West End model. upon a scale
of zone inch equals forty feet" shows
the vein for a length of 2000 feet.
In this length is $50 feet of anti
clinal axis and 1440 feet showing no
union of the slopes of the vein. In
other words a united crest of the
vein exists for $50 feet in length
of 2000 feet, or for little over one
fourth of the whole, or 2S per cent
The vein continues on about one
hundred feet farther into the Cali
fornia than is shown on this model.
(Finch. 65l. $50; Siebert. 746l. This
reduces the percentage of axis to 81
per cent; and If it continues on far
/ ther westerly the percentage of ac-
tual axis is correspondingly lowered.
The Butler model upon the same
scale shows the vein for length Of
/ 1860 feet, in which distance $40 feet
I Of united crest is shown, or rather
assumed to be shown, and 1920 feet
is apparently open. The axis, ae-
cording to this model is 36.4 per cent
OF the length of the vein; but this
I model includes very little OF the
vein in the ground of the Tonopah
! Company. The Butler large map,
Exhibit /. shows a united crest for
500 feet in a length of 1900 feet, or
1913 per cent
/ Hereafter in this discussion a dia.
gram marked page s will be referred
to- 1t is not drawn TO scale and is
little out OF proportion in places
but is accurate enough to serve the
purpose for which II is used. 1t te
based upon the West End model, be
cause that model shows a united
crest of the vein in one more plact
} than does the Butler model. ThS
lines shown on the diagram are, witt
. the exception of few whose mean
: ing is evident, those adjoining point
} on the highest parts of the slopes o
the vein. The line ABCDEFGH is
continuous high" line approximatel,
] 1440 feet long, all but 4S0 feet on tn
l south slope and all but about 430 fee
! in the West End claim. The lin
e CDEFG, a part of the above line,
= a continuous high" line about ITO
. feet long. all in the West End Claim
g and all on the south slope excep
" $3.50 feet which Is the anticlinal axi
I part of this line in that claim. tn
/ lines ST, UVW, and KY are lines o
/ the northern slope joining the higi
: est points of the vein on that slop'
n and are not far from parallel to tn
high" line CDEFG on the opposll
S slope; they contain no part of th
il anticlinal axis. The line H-6 is ais
It on the north slope. continuing u
l. line CDEFG to the west, and contal
II ing no part OF the axis. The line Z
D. NAV safely be considered as a co
If tinuation of the long south slope VI
,r to the east, and is not crest lin
n. The lines OP and 9-l0 are apparent
d on the north slope and fairly parall
le to the line 7-S-BCD, but they are pro
a. ably no part of the West End-Ma
r. Namara Vein. (Searls, 967, 969).
IA Between WV on the north slol
Of and DEF on the south slope, there
Ia union of the two slopes of the We
IN at XII for 40 feet, liberal estima'
is though one of the Witnesses for I
,n Butler gives the distance as l2O fe
20. Between the line KY on the nor
sv slope and FIG on the south slol
ed there appears to be union OF I
ne vein slopes at NJ for twenty feet,
nd other liberal estimate. Betwe
In thse two lines. there is also at N,
ne shown by the West End model.
mt detached portion of the vein not &C
of nected by workings on the vein W
ID any other portion of It, but higf
he than either FG or KY. The thi
mt lines. XII. M, and N probably rep
lct sent fragments of an anticlinal a
re, that once existed.