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Show IWsI "1 OUTSIDE filPH . I Andrew T. Lawson, Califor-t nia Mine Experl, Testifies f or Defense. Holds All Deposits in Disputed Dis-puted Ground Associated t With Fissures. f'roloa or A ;i'!:-w T. l.nv.r.i tii-'; t nir:rsit of California U' n the Willi Wil-li c.h fif a ml rl i j r-i tin; tcr--ai part, of (-M Ol'fliiy'H .-:i-jt;s In 1 1 if- fit:- e of ttib CI ah Con,-oiilaNd .Mi nine: corn pan y a K Hi ii.it the. I ." I ii ; j A pox Milting tympany in I lift Unitod States district, uuiirt. In litH opening testimony fur the defense, ' ro ff-:-m r I .aw f,on sa id t l:r re were no nro bodir-s in ihf. liinfiham properties under conoid rat mn Unit were nut a'.so --alfil wi'.li Die- fi'surr-K. IN- said further fur-ther that no portions of tho Ap-x work-l work-l n(fM u'cre in t In Yanipn el n. V enion S. Rood, K'-in r;i 1 nia nascr of the Ap.-x "company, v. a - mi tlie stand when court opened yesterday morning. II'H attention was ("filled to the Occasion of the t'liHTinin, Williams and Cowand visit of Inspection to the Apex mine in (JV1. He mi id that at. thai time no mention men-tion wfta made of the posHtbil it ies of the I tah Consolidated being the owners of ilit) ore hodien that were inspected, and he had no intimation that the company flat i nod these ore deposit s until the j reset it suits wore brought in l'J'J. Reason for Bulkheads. , The witness further explained tlutt the A pex company had bulk headed cert a i n workings in 1017 by reason of a fire, w hi eh stopped opera lions for throe months, and in other workings in 1 1 I S, which prevent ed opera t Ions for a month. These Hires, he sa id, were i-aused by pus coin bust ion and the pas whs 60 poisonous that it drove the men from these workings, which are still Inaccessible. In-accessible. I-:. ( L ron. mining engineer, was put. upon 111 6 stand to correct some work -ings in the model, which, he akr, had not been correct iy given in maps thai t ere furnished. Tie was followed on the 1 stand by Ki ank Anderson, engineer, who pi esenied sample maps of assay ret urns f ron i workings in the Apex properties. I 'an LMcu. formerly lorema n for the Apex company, was put on the stand to identify some lead ores in the quartzite. 1 Professor Lawson, during the afternoon ; session, said that the Tampa fissure was i below the Vampa limestone and drew a cross-section of the vein for illustration. He then referred to the- quartzite seat -; lered through the gouge and underlying tiiis. he said, was the ore. He then spoke of the relationship lie t ween the ' (luartzite and tho ore and said that the ; ore ran down into tongues of quartzile. The witness testified that a fair reprc- sentation of the movement In the Tampa vein was apparent before the ore depositions deposi-tions and that it was made up largely of a replacement of the quartzite rather Mum a replacement of the limestone. He gave it as his opinion that this was the genesis of the Yampa. and further, tnat he had found the fissures were not always confined to the contact and that they passed off into the quartzite and limestone, a condition which was well illustrated on the Inland tunnel and on the 600-foot level of the Apex. His conclusions con-clusions were that the Yampa was a fissure fis-sure vein along which there had been considerable movement and that it was narrow and not a large lode, and, therefore, there-fore, could not be considered a broad deposit in any sense. Replacement in Quartzite. Professor Lawson said that the Petro. lying under the surface 'of the Apex, had other characteristics, as it is constant to the strike and dip and that the fissures were not in accord with the limestone and quartzite, but cut transversely across the country, the Petro being persistent to great depth. He said that it was a parent fissure or zone of movement, and, while there may be places unprofitable to mine, this condition was also true in the Yampa. He then referred to the Sambo fissure, which, he said, was of different strike and probably did not have as much movement, but was, nevertheless, neverthe-less, a fault fissure. He gave as his belief be-lief that the Petro, Parvenu and Sambo fissures were related and that the fissure veins Invariably branched out, though the faults cut through and - dislocated ore bodies. The Tampa, Professor T.awson said, was essentially of bare limestone, and he did not consider the white lime significant signifi-cant of ore bearing, as he had seen entire mountains of white lime unmineralized. At the conclusion of tire session, the attorneys announced they expected to conclude the evidence today, and Judge Tillman D. Johnson said he would be willing to lengthen the session in order that they may not be required to hold court .tomorrow. |