The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-01

Mining company in it's action
against the Federal Mining &
Smelling company, now on trial
in this city before Judge DIETRICH, of
the United States district court, was
made clear yesterday through the tes-
timony of Walter Wiley, a noted min
ing engineer Of Los Angeles, elucidat-
ed by numerous maps and a model
showing the surface and underground
workings Of the Star and Morning
ground 1t is contended that the Nor
ming vein and the Star vein are iden-
teal and that they form a continuous
lode passing through the west end line
of the Morning and through the Even
ing Star claim; that the Iron
Crown and Grouse vein isa a branch
Of this lode, leaving it at a point east
of the west end line of the Morning
claim. After describing thescourse of
the Morning vein, beginning at the
point where it was intersected by No
6 tunnel, Mr.. Wiley said:
Iron Crown a Branch.
THE result of study of all these
levels, of the crosscuts which are driv
en- from them, and the nature of the
filing, has led me to the conclusion
that the Morning lode continues in a
northwesterly direction both at the
surface and beneath the surface, and
the Morning mine and the Evening
Etnr nj ot,x, q
the main lode. and therefore / allude
Ito this as the Morning Evening Star
lode In westerly direction through
the Iron Crown there are workings
the Iron Crown tunnel, the Grouse tun-
mel workings-which are upon a vein,
which in its easterly course unites with
this Morning Evening Star lode or,
tracing 1t in westerly direction. the
main Morning lode has flipped one
branch extending in westerly direc-
ton into the Iron Crown lode claim"
On cross examinations
"At the surface or near the surface
this lode extends from the Morning
lode claim In northwesterly direc-
ton crossing in part the east end line
of the Evening Star lode claim and
crossing also the western end of this
claim. There is a branch of this lode
extending in more westerly direction
across portion of the Grouse end in
to the Iron Crown claims
Tracing this lode downward by a
connection through the different
workings both to the northwest in
the Star, as we'll as farther to the east
in the Morning claim, l consider the
deeper workings and ore bodies of the
Morning mine to be in the same iden-
teal lode"
Rush White Called.
Following Mr. Wiley yesterday af
ternoon. Rush ]. White, chief engin-
eer for the Star company, took the
stand and was still testifying when
court adjourned for the day.
The maps and mine model submitted
by the Star are the work of Fred w.
Galloway, mining engineer of Kellogg,
and have attracted much favorable
comment
Contention of the Federal.
The trial of the Star-F Federal case
began last Thursday. In his opening
statement for the Federal, Judge Mar
shall stated that there would be no
controversy over the question of en-
tering the Evening Star ground by the
Federal. 1t was admitted that ore had
been extracted beneath the surface
boundaries of the Evening Star, and
mat In doing SO the Federal company
was within its extra-lateral rights He
stated that the Federal expected to
prove that the vein which ape&ed ION
'he Grouse claim and passed through
the Iron Crown was identical withf
Morning vein, and that in it's down
ward course it passed beneath the
surface boundaries of the Evening
star claim. Maps and models Of the
surface and underground workings
were introduced in support of this con-
tention
Witnesses Called.
Most Of the maps. and the two mine
models were the work of e. w. George,
mining engineer for the Federal, and
,he work was highly. complimented.
noliowing the introduction of the maps
ana models, the Federal case was pre-
sented by witnesses in the following
oruer: c. r. Wethered, mining engin-
eer' II. M Lancaster mining engin-
yer ior the Morning when owned by
larson Greenough; W. B. Fisher,
INNING engineer, formerly superintend-
s't OF Federal mines; Frederick Bur-