Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-16
SHORT LINES
RAPID SURVEY.
Men Employed by That Company
Testify for the San Pedro.
INTERESTING EVIDENCE,
Information ~ 20 How Line Was Hun
Through Nevada 60 The California
Line - Attracts Attention.

The taking OF testimony before Steno-
grapher j, Tracey Smith this morning
In the impending grade and map cases
between the Oregon Short Line and the
San Pedro, Los Angeles & salt Lake
Railroad company developed some Pc
culiar information regarding the meth
cd employed In making a survey ahead
OF competing ana rival railroad COM
pany. -Four witnesses were examined
during the morning session and their
testimony went TO show that the Ore
gon Short Line had made a record
survey down through the Meadow VAL
ley wash by the means OF attaching a
surveyors chain behing a wagon and
then driving a distance from between
two to ten miles with the chain trailing
In the dust At stated intervals a
man armed with Ratchet would jump
from the vehicle and drive a stake
Such In brief was the testimony OF
Henry II. Lee who drove the wagon
from Uvada % Manyille, California,
and which contained Messrs. Barlow,
Miller. Young and Gardner, engineers IN
the employ Of the Oregon Short Line
company
The taking Of tectimony was held In
the petit jury room attached TO the
United States court IN the Dooly build
ing. T. H. Gibbon and G. 0. White
more appeared as counsel for the San
Pedro road, while Judge Kelly Of Oma-
ha counsel for the Union Pacific, Par
ley l.. Williams and G.. S. Yarian
watched the case for the Oregon Short
Line. Al stated intervals Judge Cornish
looked into the room just TO see how
things We're going The examination Of
witnesses was confined almost exclu-
siyely 20 Attorneys G. o. Whlttemore
and Farley l.. Williams In addition
70 some dozen witnesses who were
present Engineers Mccartney and Vail
Of the San PEDRO ana Engineer Barlow
and several other surveyors in the en-
ploy OF the oregon Short Line were al
so present.
THE TESTIMONY.
Hyrum H. Lee OF Panaca, Nevada,
twenty-four years Of age testified that
from April 22nd to May 3rd he drove the
wagon containing the Short Lines sur
veying party from Uyada to Manyille,
California. He went into detail as TO
each lays work. lie said the party
rode two and three miles at a jump and
one day ten miles without stopping,
They draggod the surlAyor's chain be-
hind the wagon and VIA stops were
made drove stakes
James 5. Wells miner at Silver
Reef testified that on April 26th he met
the Short Line surveyors on the Weser
ranch, while on the way TO Delamar.
He saw one man get out and drive a
stake and then declared that the team
was not stopped again for three miles.
He saw the mark made In the dust by
the dragging chain also surveyors in
struments IN the wagon.
w. c, Williams Of Moapa testified
that he was a teamster and that on
April 25th he met this same party Of
surveyors eleven or twelve miles south
Of Kiernan's Wells and that he saw the
chain dragging and two men walking In
front Of the team carrying Ratchet and
stakes.
J. NJ Thomas, a farmer and mail
contractor, who runs a stage line be-
tween Moab and Les Vegas. met the
witness Lee, who was driving. After
they had paused he looked for indica-
lions Of the new survey but did not find
any.