Show THE BIG MINE CASE t Expert Testimony in Behalf of r the Mayflower HEAVY INTERESTS INVOLVED Judge Anderson Sentences Several Criminals A Divorce Case Probate and Police Pickings Few cases have come up In the Third district court for adjudication that have been fought with such stubborn zeal as the I Northland suit for trespass against the Mayflower Mining company Every inch of ground is contested with unflagging determination de-termination Every particle of evidence is reviewed and inquired into with elaborate regard for details Every gleam of intelligence intelli-gence boaring upon the case is examined and passed upon by the alert and watchful j guardians of the interests of plaintiffs and fiscndants before allowed to pass into the annals of the court records The amount of damages asked by the Northlandvfolks of Mayflower company fortrospasg and the point upon which the title of the cause Is fixed pales into insignificance in-significance beside the real issue which involves the ownership of the vein of ore in the < triangle which is formed by the northeast corner of the Northland claim lying over the soutceast end 01 the May flower claim thereby forming a perfect triangle through which passes according to the claim of the defendants the true vein of the Mayflower workings The plaintiffs contend that the vein In this triangle is an extension of the ore body of the Northland and asks that the Mayflower Mining company pay the sum of 57000 for trespass because of ores removed there from and be perpetually enjoined from working the ores in the disputed territory The array of testimony has been slowly diminishing until butone witness for the defense remains and he will go upon the stand today The arcument in the case will be made some time next week There is a probability that the plaintiffs will put a few vitnesses on the stand next week to rebut portions of the testimony introduced by the defense The approaching end of the case is hailed with delight by all parties interested Tho jury is beginning to wear a weary faded look of woe the attorneys appear on the scone each morning less blithesome and gay Court Reporter McGurrin has a faraway far-away look in his eyesand the joyful Hour ye hear ye of Doc Sprague scarcely escapes the confines of the silvery cluster of whiskers which cling with loving lov-ing trustful confidence to his countenance Only the indubitable newspaper reporter is as fresh as ever The contest was opened yesterday morning morn-ing with PKOF W S KETES on the stand He entered into a comprehensive compre-hensive explanation of the different formation for-mation of rock in the mines of the Uintah district He reiterated his assurance assur-ance of tho vein in the Mayflower being a continuous one with its apex on the Tenderfoot Ten-derfoot mine The professor laid the direction di-rection of the vein across the Mayflower Nevada and Voodside at an acute angle The crossexamination was a lengthy one but the witness was fortified his assertions asser-tions by an actual experience of many years and held his ground with imperturbable impertur-bable serenity Nothing which has not been reported was drawn out by the cross examination JIABTTN HARKXESS an oldtime Nevada Idaho and Utah miner was called to the stand Hewas atone at-one time supeintendent of a mine in the Uintah district but was at present connected connec-ted in the Cottonwood His testimony was in llncftvith most of the testimony that I has been Introduced and after his examination exam-ination adjournment was taken for lunch The afternoon session began with a rush t with WiLLIAM ilQUEEX superintendent of the Northern Light Mining company of the Oqulrrh district on the stand He had spent three duys looking look-ing over the propertiesof the Uintah die tries and had made a close examination oi tho surface cuts and excavations he had gone through the ore bodies examined the walls and veins and inspected the cour raise from all of which he had arrived a t the conclusion that the vein was a contac vein but limestone formations lying between I be-tween quartzite and rising from forty tc fortyfive feet The bed was of the character char-acter of lime in which no ore was to b 0 found above that comas a bed of lime with white sparr formations In no place did he see the ore going up into the blue sparr line The apex of the vein was disclosed to the northeast on the WIl man discovery and also along the Wood I side hoisting works going the other direction direc-tion he found it in cut No 2 and on around to Fairmans mining claim The witness testified that the apex of the Mayflower was on the Tenderfoot vein PAPERS ADMITTED The counsel for the defense here offered a certified notice of the location of the Ten aerf oot mine by William F Ferry to show the date of the location of the claim to prove that it antedated tho Northland mine After a warm discussion the location loca-tion papers were allowed to bo entered by the court The plaintiffs took an exception Patent papers were also introduced to define the lines of the claims creating a warm discussion in which Mr Royle for the plaintiffs delivered himself of a pungent pun-gent speech regarding the efforts of the opposing counsel to locate the apex of the Mayflower claim First said Mr Royle the counsel for defense locate the apex of the vein on the Tenderfoot claim then they about face and endeavor to prove that the apex is on the eastern side of the mountain then they skip over the ridge i and try to locate the claim on the other I side of the range Now your honor I object i ob-ject to this everlasting blowing of hot and I blowing of cold by the counsel for the defense Mr BrownThat only shows the versatility versa-tility of the counsel Laughter The paper was admitted and the plaintiffs plain-tiffs took their usual exception The vouchers of ore shipments to the sampler from the Mayflower entered as evidence by the defense on Wednesday but which were ordered by the court to bo held were again offered In evidence The defense registered an objection ob-jection which was overruled and tho vouchers passed into the meshes of the case as evidence THOJIAS KEABXS one of the parties to the defense In this action took the stand Witness was foreman fore-man of the Mayflower mine After the serving of an Injunction upon the May flower folks by Gorllnsky and others work II k bad been prosecuted on the big Incline in Mayflower No 5 The ore had been shipped as fast as mined The ore taken from the big incline compared with the ore of the disputed property Ore in the road incline comes within thirty or forty feet of the surface and on an incline of twelve feet of the surface vertically The length of the court raise is 520 feet and cost 12 per foot to mako the raise The raise was finished about six months ago r EZRA THOMPSON was Introduced upon the stand but the plaintiffs objected to the first question put t to him the judge sustained the objection and the defense excused Mr Thompson from the stand K1CHAUD WILLIAMS f shift boss of tho Anchor mine testified to the location of the anex of the Mayflower I vein being on the Tenderfoot mine Mr Williams gave testimony and added a I J description of the true dip of a vein He has been a miner for twentyolght years I and according to his view the true dip would be with the ore Court then adjourned until today at 10 I oclock when tho defense will Introduce its last witness In the case I |