Show s j THE BIG MINE SUIT Eyer Increasing Interest Taken in It THE TESTIMONY OF EXPERTS Heavy Bonds Fixed In the Case of the Three Upckmen Bobbers Probate and Follc3 Courts Expert testimony has become the leaturo in the NorthlandMayflower mining suit for trespass Experts with ponderous technical terms clinging to their testimony have begun enlightening the twelve good men and true upon the question Involved in this suit for damages which hinges upon the location of the vein of ore in the Mayflower i May-flower uiinc as to whether it is an unbroken un-broken vein running in a northeasterly direction and traversing the southwest corner of the Northland mine with its apex on the Tenderfoot mine or whether it is a portion of the vein the Northland people bad been working until litigation began usualaudJence of mining representatives represent-atives was in attendance upon the action when the Third district court was called to order yesterday morning B B VAX DUSEN was the first witness on the stand Mr Van Dusen is a mining expert He waa introduced to prove that the vein of ore in the Mayflower was a contiguous one and penetrated through the workings of the Northland In a limestone formation veins are nearly always irregular This vein cropped on the surface and has two walls one of quartzite the other of limestone The quartzite was the underlying wall Into this the mineral did not penetrate hence it was termed the underlying wall The strke of the vein had been determined by the drifts and underground workings as well as those on the surface 0 A PALMER was introduced but nothing new was obtaIned ob-taIned from his testimony He is a mining engineer and was called to clinch a few facts already brought out in the evidence A BEMEHT secretary of the Daly mining company at Park City was called to show the value of the ore taken from the disputed territory The witness could only state the amount of ore taken out by the Mayflower company which was 645 tons valued at 516962070 exclusive of minim dead work transportation trans-portation expenses and smelting AFTER RECESS C P Brooks took the stand Mr Brooks is a civil and mining engineer and was called to locate the stopes of the Mayflower mine The largest st > pe contains 2200 cubic feet the second stopo 750 cubic feet and the third 2000 cubic feet in the disputed territory terri-tory IllSBOX E tERT was recalled to show the amount of the ore shipments to the sampler from the May flower The ere taken from the Mayflower contains 7 510 to 9 510 with an average of 5a per cent of moisture The ore runs above dead work prospecting mining and hauling about 1S per ton DAVID KEITH said the shaft on the Mayflower was begun be-gun in 1SS9 and was down twentyfive feet with a fivefoot sump The shaft was completed In May 1SS9 The stope on the yellow level was encountered on December Decem-ber 21 1890 Very little ore was toped after entering the easterly end of the disputed dis-puted territory The Mayflower passed out of the triangle and quit mining in it about January 10 1890 The body of the foot veins is quartzite Ore was discovered dis-covered up to the hard blue limestone with spar chrystals The foot wall does not cut into or across any bedding plane The height of the raise was decreased because too much waste was being taken out and in order to decrease the cost of development It is possible to start on the incline in the Tenderfoot tunnel and walk on ore continuously contin-uously through the workings of the different differ-ent mines and through the Mayflower mine J D VAX DCSEX was recalled He had made extractions of ore from cuts 7 and 9 and taken them to an assayer In this city to be assayed as-sayed i W CURRY an assayer was called to testify to the value of the ore from these cuts He said the ore showed from cut No7 14110 ounces silver and 41000 gold from No 9 it run 3 > ounces silver and 21000 gold w F KETES a mining expert of national repute was called to the stand Mr Keyes was chock full of mining information and the way ho struck out right and left with minerological and metallurgical and geological propositions proposi-tions was a stunning innovation In the trial Ho went to the mouth of the Big and Little Cottonwood caflons and analyzed the formations for-mations of rock from these two rifts in the mountain range over into the Uintah mining min-ing district as a crow would fly and was going on across the territory toward the Colorado state line butfor Judge Baskin who entered an objection and claimed the witness was scattering Tho judge admonished ad-monished the witness to confine himself to the casein question The bed of quartzite lying in the disputed triangle is 150 lent thIcK The Silver King shaft on the Mayflower had been examined by the witness wit-ness The bottom of the shaft was a bed of quartzite then came a lime bed on top of which rested a junction of 100 feet of sandstone lollowed by blackish sandstone then limestone and finally ending up with sandstone The witness produced thirty or forty small bags containing ore and rock from different mines around the disputed claim and gave an analytical description of the properties of each rock and the effect of each property on the other and its bear ings in the vein The witness then began a clear and comprehensive com-prehensive explanation to show that the vein in the Mayflower with its apex in the t Tenderfoot down to its commencement in the Mayflower was by a similarity of ore by its dips and by its bearing one and the same vein as claimed by the Mayflower people Court adjourned until 10 oclock today I with Mr Keyes still on the stand |