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Show BUHCH ON STAND IN MINING SUIT Limitations of Lode Denned by Pioneer Tintic Operator. Professojr Ellsworth Daggett Testifies the Winnemucca Propei ty Is Fault Fissure. Albert BiAvh, mining enirineer, was the principal witness yesterday in the suit for apex rid us between the I'tah Apex and Utah Consolidated Mining companies In the Unified' States district court. Mr. Burch, vcitnva for the Apex company, is a I'tah man,) having begun his experience experi-ence in this 'ate in the Tlntlc district more than thin y ears ago. Mr Hiin h njnlle on the star.,1 aDDeared tlon Of the ore body and that where the vein reaches a point where it Is not min-erallied min-erallied It can no longer be considered as a lode. Of the second tvpe of vein, one. he said, carried vein filling and the-others the-others the channel through which the ore solutions make, though neither may be mineralired throughout. He said the passing of the veins from one ferruatidti to another showed that one formation carried the ore and that the other was barren. At tills point he drew two Illustrations Illustra-tions corresponding with the conditions in Bingham. He then described 1 the Omaha stope, which, he said, was apparently a I small lead fisstire. and stated that throughout the workings most of the lead veins are fissure veins. Of the Highland Boy lode, he said that the lead and copper cop-per was not deposited at the same time. He said also that the limestone was barren bar-ren and the quartxite mineralised on slopes on the 1500-foot level and that that area has been very productive. Sums Up Testimony. Mr. Burch testified that the Utah Consolidated Con-solidated did not follow the fissures through the Peterson stope and that the Apex could not get ventilation In time to do important development work, which presumably has ft bearing on this case. In summing up. the witness said that the eastern portion of the properties has good ore and that there is Increasing mineralization min-eralization in passing from limestone to to be so well vel-sed on the case that he drew the eiosest .attention throughout the proceedings. He explained In his testimony testi-mony that he wavi general manager of the old Bullion Bert: and Champion Mining Min-ing company, and .later United States mineral Inspector for Utah. After this time he operated In Idaho, Oregon and Montana. Mr. Burch returned to t7tah In 1S9S and operated in the Bingham district. As a consulting engineer tie lias gone all over the. western mining country, as well as Alsska. Mexico and Cuba. He has been general manager of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines In the Coeur d'Alene district when the mines were the largest lead-producing proc?rtles In the world. letter ho ws general: manager of the Goldfleld Consolidated aamrany when It was the largest gold-pro-lucing property. prop-erty. In 191S. Mr. Burch was erjsaged It. war work for the government as a "doliar-a-year" man. Wire Model Used. Ia his testifnony. Mr. Bur-fh said that he had been i most all of the underground, under-ground, workings of both the I'tah Apex and Consolidated companies, where the workings were safely accessible, ac-cessible, and that hfe Mftrnination occupied a period of about monts. He went elaborately into details of the various workings of these properties and described t3ie country rock as the one which surrounds or incloses the veins. Ho described two veins, one as a broad led and the other aa distinctly dis-tinctly a fissure vein. His direct examination was under Judge John A. Marshall, and when reference was made to the wire model Judge Lind-lev. Lind-lev. also counsel for the defense, suggested sug-gested that the top be removed. John I Grav, attorney for Utah Consolidated, wanted to know if anything was covered cov-ered up. The witness then entered into the mineral min-eral solution which, he said, had formed in ore and had its source from the porphyry. por-phyry. The porphyry, he said, in the Highland Boy came up in a largo intrusive in-trusive mass and branched out into p tongues. He said the Urn est one was not so porous as quartaite and therefore not so receptive for ore depositions. He said i the fissures are channels through which ! th ore travels to Its destination and I that the porphyry clearlv had its effect i on the ore deposits. Of the Highland Boy j lode, the witness said it wns limited as to Its extent, in which the overlaying qnartzite could not act as a hangiftjr wall, and the Oregon stnpe was used to illus- trate a case in which the ore is in the quarlzlte. Mr. Burch said the western terminus of the Highland Boy lode is the Umita- Vjartzite. He saw no encouragement for running the long drift on the 1300-foot level, he said. I During noon recess Attorney Gray brought a yardstick into the courtroom, which he offered to Mr. Biirrh to make his measurements in cross-examination. But. apparently. Mr. Burch was suspicious of the measurements and refused repeatedly re-peatedly to accept ft. There was "Some argument between the counsel and witness wit-ness over the accuracy of maps presented pre-sented and the witness was quite positive posi-tive in his statements throughout th trying try-ing ordeal of the entire day. Professor Klisworth Paggett. who was the first witness callei yesterday, testified testi-fied that the Wlr.nemuccSi mine was a fault fisstire. |