Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-17

Ar did not remove the ore there
was nothing dishonest about that
o-Ihat is az honest as any other
transaction that you think might oc-
cur IN mining-you would justify any
other transaction OF that character az
being entirely honest?
All you find anything belonging
10 the other gentleman and do not
appropriate 1t to your own use | don't
zee anything dishonest about 1t.
Q-l want to know your opinion. Is
all
A-That Is my opinion, yes.
o-As matter of fact. when Mr.
your ofhce-that is. the office OF David
Keith and yourself in Salt Lake City,
You told him that he could go down
there or something OF that Kind
Ayes, sir
Q-The bulkhead was there?
A-At that time after he came the
first time?
Q-Yes?
Ayes, sir
Q-The bulkhead was there when
you told him he could go down and
examine the mine. during one of tho
times after the first time he came?
Alt was after, yes sir
Ole told you he understood you
had been in his ground. didn't he?
Al don't know that he did. He
wanted to so down and see IL We was
in there
Q-And you denied il. didn't YOU?
ground9
A-No, l did not l told him to go
and see for himself
Q-You told him to go and see for
himself?
Ayes. sir
Q-And you then knew he could not
discover anything, did you?
Al don't know he didn't l know
he did.
Ollie did by getting man in there
TO bctray you?
Al expect so: he discovered 1t. but
he never told me that
Q-fou knew he could not, without
getting some man whom you consid-
cred as betraying you. have found that
place at all. could he?
Ali he was man OF thirty years
experience and IL he was there at all.
he would know the difference between
concrete and quartzite.
Q-You say he could tell 1t WAS con-
crete2
Ale ought to but don't know his
ability as a mining geologist.
Q-Don't you know that he could not
have told that it was concrete2
A-No. sir; 1 have always considered
McGregor as a man thoroughly capable
of taking care of himself of course
PUTTING IN CONCRETE.
Q-The concrete was soft when
A-No, hard.
Q-Wait until finish the question.
The concrete when first put in there
and you had a shot put in on the
other side and blew rock into it so as
to give it the appearance OF a con-
crete wall. didn't you?
A-Well, now, did 1 blow rock Into
the concrete or shoot something else
into 1t? No. I never did Now you go
beyond all my geology, 1 was not ex-
pert enough to do Tat. That Is Just
an idea OF yours. That is impossible
You go out sometime and try to blow
out soft concrete and shoot something
into IL To make something else out OF
It, 1 think / know something about
concrete but that is beyond my COM
prehenson. 1 could not even give
myself credit of knowing enough to
deceive Jim McGregor that far. by any
such way. l did shut him out until
we got to the end line and rose up to
locate the vein on the surface. and
kept him out until I was through to
my own vein but l did not remove
any more ore in that case than I had
to to see where the vein was. but
never did in my life try to make old
Jim McGregor believe concrete was
quart2ite or limestone. and would
never try to do that.
Q-But will you answer my qucs-
ton
Al will try and do 1t all right
Q-That If IT is not the fact the face
of this wall at the end of the drift
A-That was not the end; that was
the side along the drift.
ROCK BLOWN IN.
Q-Was composed OF concrete in