Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-25

More Testimony BEFORE the Co.nmission
About Gold On the Shoemaker Tract

More Testimony BEFORE the Commission
About Gold on the Shoemaker Tract
Before the Rock Creek park appraisemen'
commission yesterday, on cross-examination
by Mr.. Perry Mr.. Kirk said he had
| shown to Mcssrs. Staples and Kurtz John.
son q number CT specimens Of orc. lie
also showed them in Chicago and New York.
The Kirk mine has boon capitalized at 60, 000,-
900. but could not say that sny gold had been
sent from it to the mint He was informed by
the superintendent that s12. 900 worth had been
taken from one hill. He had shipped several
hundred doiars-perhaps $1,000 the mint
in the past three years, and had sold some small
lois n this city. Some Of this was from Viz
ginia and il was the result of prospecting.
Mr.. Perry asked what the gold product
Of Maryland and the District in the last i've
years
SOME PROFITS HE HAD MADE
Mr.. Kirk said he did not know, but knew
that gold was not being shipped, fer those
working it wanted moro land. He mad bought
one property for :25,oo and sold fer 9i5. 900,
and had made come on other properties Mr..
Truesdell frs. called him into the case and then
be went on the shoemaker tract.
Redirect: Witness had not been engaged in
mining and shipping gold. but in prospecting.
he knew OF an English company visiting the
Sawyer mine through the superintendent; and
the nine was stopped when they were there.
There was a tin stamp mill there which was
operated for something over year. He had
seen the orc reduced and there was a large
pile Of ore on the dump; the same kind they
had milled. The work has been done evil
samo as to fatten horse to sell it. 1t was just
III proper shape for milling. He did not mean
to say that it had been sailed. A: the Mary.
land mine they were taking out Quantities Of
ore, but their machinery was not in. Some Of
1t had been mjlled at the Kirk and Sawyer
mines. At the Russ mine they were taking
out the ore, but were not milling II.
CHARGED WITH SAILING THE SAWYER NINE.
Recross-e xamination: Archer said whom he
took ho;d of it for Sawyer that witness had
saltsd il.
Redirect: Witness did not know how to salt q
quartz vein except by drilling holes and piling
IN gold. This needed no sailing. God Al
mighty, or who ever made it, did that"
Judge Wilson and Mr.. Coleman asked that il
the testimony is closed they will call him rs
witness.
". A. Clear testified that ne lived on 4 street
southwest and mad been engaged i'll mining
several yeara, that in 1861 while
serving in California regiment he
i. now the Maryland mine; tina. subsequently u
company was formed and be vas left out. He
had examined the openings on the
Shoemaker tract and the prospect GER
tainly had q value. II he owned the land
he would stock company and work il. judy
ing from what he had seen the ore would be-
come better. Taking the location, facility for
working it. he would value it at sl50,0O0 to
500, 900. He would certainly, II he owned the
land, value the mineral right at that much
al owe the lani.
On cross-examinati ton witness said that he
regarded the county where he was working
(Cu.peper county, Va.,) as better mining coun-
try than anywhere in the west. The mine he
Was woi king-ths Powhattaa-had no shares of
stock i'll the market. The capital was $500. 900.
The country in Virginia was better mining
country than any he knew Of in the west. The
specimens h. found do not necessarily indicate
a yield of gold, but he Was quite confident that
a yield OF fifty cents per ton could be depended
upon.
On redirect examination Mr.. johnson said
the mine was exceptionally well located for
prOfitaf lie mining. He had said this was a bet
ter mining country than the west was because
here everything looked on as refuse in the west
had a market value--the pyrites for the manu-
facture of sulphuric acid and the copper. sill
yer, &C., could be extracted, and for sulphur
was worth IS per ton.
Messrs. L. ID. Carpenter and b. c. King, who
had testified for the government, were cross
examined.
VALUE OF IMPROVEMENTS.
This morning Mr.. Kings cross-examination
occupied the commission till near noon, when
that Of Mr.. Gibbons on the value Of improve
ments followed.