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Show SIM DESCRIBES! ORE FORMATIONS Again on Stand in Utah Consolidated-Utah Apex Suit. Dykes Limit Highland Boy on North, Professor A. P. Lawson Says. M the conveninsr of court yesterdav morning in the United States district court in the case of the TJtah Consolidated Consol-idated Mining company versus the Utah Apes company for lateral rights. Frank M. Wishman was on the stand for a few moments, after which George D. Blood. Thursday's witness, was again called. Mr. Blood's first testimony was as to the Leadville stope. where, he said, the ore extended and conformed to dip and strike of the vein. Ho said there was no connection betweeu the Leadville Lead-ville and Highland Boy ore deposits, but a big barren space betweeu the formations and uo fissure couu-jctious. He testified that the Peterson raise followed at least one strand of the Ueadville fissure and that it showed galena ore developments near the connections con-nections of the 1000-foot level. Of the Dana workings, Mr. Blood stated he had fouud no mineralized fissures fis-sures near the surface, but saw ore in close proximity and that deeper the ore is found in the fissures. He explained ex-plained that he had given close study to the Daua and Leadvil'..- fissures and that his conclusions were that they are prcbubh the same, or two parts of the series of fissures. The Littgatiou stope on the 1600-foot levol did not appear, the witness said, to carry ore of a commercial grade, although, he said, it might be a coucentrating ore. Examines Bingham Properties. Attorney Adrian . Ellis cross-exam-' ined the witness aud drew out the fact that Mr. Blood had spent eighteen days underground in the Bingham properties proper-ties and that he could identity the Highland Boy and Leadville forma lions, although the timbering in some topes prevented a careful view of these formations. The witness stated that in prospecting he had invariably followed the fissures through the formations for-mations as they occurred. In answer to a query as to why ore developments had not taken place in certain workings. work-ings. Mr. Blood answered that the Utah consolidated might have fouud ores in these places if it had performed work which the Utah Apex had since done for it. Mr. Blood said that he agreed with the opinions of Mr. Burch and Mr. Peterson relative to the ore occurrences oc-currences and accepted their corrcla lion of the rock. He said he did not think the porphyry dyke of the lower workings was eucouraging for or.- depositions, de-positions, but that the large it;as of pcrphvrv was always encouraging for prospecting. When asked as to his reasons rea-sons for making this geological deduc tioo he answered rather abruptly that he did not claim to be a geologist, but that mining was his business. While it was well to follow the fis-Furea. fis-Furea. the witness said, b; thought that this. too. could be exaggerated to the ,ame extent a3 the claim that a broad j limestone formation was a lode. In conclusion he said that he saw no evi-demo evi-demo of limestone being crushed by underlying porphyry. Frank Anderson w.-ts called to the Mand for a few rnomcuts and gave as-hv as-hv returns on three samples taken from the Litigation slope. Ore in Quartzitc, Witness Says. Frank M. 'Visliman. u mining engineer, engi-neer, was called to the stand carl' in the morning session as a vvituess for the TJtah Apes aud testified that he had bf'.'O consulting engineer for the Utah Metals and Smelting company. He said that most cf its ore had been mined from tho quartzitc with fissur ings in tho contaet and that tlicse slopes of ore were a thousand feet or more west of tho Occidental fault. Some ore. however, he stated, had been mined east of the fault. Tbe witness hail prepared a number of maps which, with some rocli camples. w0;2 placed in evidence and in conclusion he s'-uted that all stopes were above the Highland High-land Boy limestone and that the rich ore was mined from l!ie (juartzilo. Profesor Andrew C. I.awson, of the University of California and R graduate grad-uate of Johns Hopkius university and the University of Toronto, was called to the witness stand for tho Utah Apex nt loon. Uo s."'id that he had been teaching for twenty-nine years and spending his summer vacations in field wore. He presented in evidence a number of diagrams and rock specimens speci-mens which he correlatfd thoroughly. Professor Lawson said that the miners worked to the end of the ore deposits mi that a bouiidan established by him was accepted by the geolojfisls. This, he staVd. was as much information informa-tion as could bo obtained underground. Describes Highland Boy. The Highland Bov. he said, is a broad formation which does not proceed northerly beyond the big porphyry dykes. The dykes, he continued, arc therefore the limit of the Higliland Rov in that direction. He stated that ;t W'ab a question as to whether or not the nu.'irt r.itc below the liiiiootono is 'he footwall. but that the mineralization mineraliza-tion proceeded from fis-.tir. s und go ing to groat depth it would yet have '0 be determined as to what the foot-wall foot-wall wts. Ho "aid that there were limitations of the ore tearing regions of the Highland Boy limestone which in places aimplv carried a scattered mineralization, and that the ores genet really were connected with porphyry. The witn,fl3 spoke of the Leadville fault, fissures abutting on tl.o Yampa linMtOM COtnlllg down throujfh the H'L'l'l.'nil 11'"' ;id'J other formations. He said the ninvoiiioiit was parallel WttO tlte plane and rutin of nro bodv which crosses und (OM throiilfh the Hiffhliind Boy lirrsfBtono into the quart7.itc and that mo, I of tho oro Is mined from the quiirlsito. Hi RBVI us his opinion that the Leadvillo and Daua fissures bore a relationship but that tho Biffb' luur Floy wus an individuality that Mood out in brood contrast, lie baid the l.ca'h illc miiK rall. ul ion was u: to MsUtlOM rinin RjOTIK the fi.ssurro. Thf fHtnoM also BIAVI nr. his opin ion that the l.i'l i"a Ii"" -'ope was no port of the llilfhland Bov. (to ilc Krlbod a I'"!'- M ii" aHMTlKalttoii of veins, onp ( which muy enrrv II, mi" era! und thai the UlOOltons "ax clastic and nnl brcaliiiblc. Ho illustralnd iii" point by a drawing showlnn why ill.- 1 1 : no : 'in.- v. as ii " I " natural ore beariiiu; channel. I'rofllior Liwson Krai 'dill "" the stand when court ul iourncd ""Ml Miiii'l.''. iiHiniinj; al' I" o 'clock. |
