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Show LINDGREN APEX SUIT WITNESS Says Is No Connection Between Be-tween Highland Boy and Jordan Limestone. Leadville Main Master Fissure Fis-sure of Bingham, Geologist Geolo-gist Testifies. Yesterday marked the beginning of the fourth week of the suit or the Utah Apes Kilning company against the Utah Consolidated Con-solidated company in the United States district court for lateral rights. Professor Profes-sor Andrew C. Law son was the first Monday Mon-day vttness and was under cross-examination by the defendant. Professor Lawson'S first reference was to the fissuring in the Highland Koy limestone, lime-stone, which, he observed, extends into i he underlying quarizite. This was particularly par-ticularly so on the seventh level, he said. The witness presented specimens of rock which, he said, probably showed some movement of the fissures, but he was not certain. Some rough notes and rock specimens were put In evidence for the Peterson slope. The witness became an-hoved an-hoved at the minute queries as to his notes, and responded b saying that when his mind was clear as to what he had seen he did not bother about notes. He testified further that in crosscuts on the 700-foot level there was shown fissuring i:i the quartzite. where pyrites is also bedded in quartzite, and this condition, he found, extended into Utah Metal's ground. Linerren Takes Stand. along fissures. He said the lead would be deposited farther from the porphyry. He gave as his opinion that the intrusion intru-sion of porphyry was accompanied by a renewal of fissurin?. Sonic of the fissures, fis-sures, ho said, were scantily mineralized and some not at all, and that, t her fore, some fissuring followed ore depositions and there was a replacement of quart x crystals In quartzite by minerals. Says Ore Is in Quartzite. Dr. Undgren also said that' the limestone lime-stone is not so soluble as quartzite and that quartzite is one of ;ne most soluble rocks known to science. To further Mu-trate Mu-trate this point, the witness referred to the lead ore deposits in the Coeur d'AIanes. which, he said, were the largest in the world and were entirely In the quartzite. The witness then spoke of the vein conditions con-ditions in Bingham aftd said tlutt the Highland Boy vein was a series of fractures frac-tures which make up the lode, and that the ore in the limestone will dip and go into the overlying and underlying quarts-ite. quarts-ite. He said the ore bodies in the limestone lime-stone do not follow the stratifications, but follow the fissures, and that the oro bodies cut across elements of the lode and follow fol-low the dip and rake of the vein. The witness then referred to the Dana-Lead Dana-Lead vi lie fissure veins as btffUE PI lH ceplaeetnent type, and being a great distance dis-tance from the Highland, Boy vein. He said that the Highland Boy and leadville velus were entlrvly different and not related, re-lated, and were generally separated by a barren limestone which "was 1 20n feet at the narrowest point between th two veins. He said that, although the Highland High-land Boy limestone !ud undergone great changes there was no change In the strata of the vein. The Leadville, he said, is the main master fissure, and the ore bodies are not extensive beyond it. Limestone at 1300 Barren. Dr. Liiidgrtu made ipedll reference to the 1300-foot level of the Highland Boy. and said lie had searched it foot try foot and found the limestone is ha rren for Dr. Waldemar Lindgren. a mining geologist, geol-ogist, was put on the stand by the Apex company just before the noon hour. He said that he began his field work with the Northern Pacific in Montana, and then went to the Anaconda plant. He finally became chief geologist of the government gov-ernment geological survey. He is now head of the department Of gSOtOg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and devotes his summer months to field work. His research work extends lo .ill parts of the world, and he lias written extentive reports on various mining districts, dis-tricts, including those in Utah. His last report was of the Tintic district, written this year. The witness testified that he had conducted con-ducted two months' examination recently recent-ly of the properties now In litigation in Bingham. He testified that both the limestone and quartzite deposits covered wide areas, usually thinning out and admitting ad-mitting of other depositions. Tiie Highland High-land Boy limestone, he said, seemed to disappear near the surface and is replaced by quartzite. It is hard to classify these two rocks in places, he said, and no geologists geol-ogists would agree eJtactly as to what they are. Discusses Mineralization. Dr. Llndgren then gave his attention to the reformations in which the limestone folded. He did not think it was violent, he said, although there was a movement of rock, admitting the fissuring when the beds slipped. However, he stated, he saw no identity in the Com mere la J and Jordan Jor-dan with the Highland Boy and Yarn pa limestone, and said it was a matter that had not been proved. He then referred to the porphyry instrusions as a v iolent mass coming from below, but be did not think it had produced serious dislocation In the strata, he said. The intrusion of Morphryry was followed by mineralization, spreading out into quartzite. limestone a M porph y ry . he t es t i i ed . The witness said the solutions can penetrate pene-trate and deposit mineral in limestone for only a short distance, possibly fifty or 100 feet, and that the deposition must be lonff distances. The barren stretch be-twen be-twen the two fissures dlntlnrtly showed there Is no relationship between them. The recognition of a considerable amount of ha rren rock, aa a continuity of vain matter, is not within the law of reason, he continued. "Attorney John Gray took the wltne on cross-examination, and the witness testified that the Yam pa hd conducted big underground workings for oilier purposes pur-poses than to follow the vein. lie described de-scribed a lode, uhh h he said legally waa recognized as being minora I tied. Geological!'., Geo-logical!'., he said. It implies fracturing and fissuring. Lodes hav- many fractures, he declared. The witness waa at ill on tho stand when court adjourned and should conclude his testimony this morning. All teatlmonv n expected to be concluded today to-day In tho first case. |
