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Show Page 4 March 21, 1969 OIL & MINING JOURNAL ineral examiners face perjury charge TOMBSTONE, Ariz.-T- wo United States Forest Service mineral examiners are on the receiving end of complaints alleging perjury in connection with an examination concerning the validity of a gold mining claim and a subsequent hearing on the contest before a Department of the Interior hearings examiner. Both mining engineers in the employ of the Forest Service have been charged with lying on the witness stand during the course of a Federal hearing in which the validity of a mining claim was being challenged by the Forest Service ' 11 1 ,, $ j gold placer claim on May 1967. Although they admittedly found gold in each of seven sample sites, a report calling the claim invalid due to lack of discovery of sufficient mineral, was made by the Forest Service employes. A formal hearing on the matter was held in Tucson in February, 1968, at which time 2-- 3, the aforementioned Forest Service employes testified under oath as to their findings. BOTH MEN testified that one particular sample, number 3556, was taken to bedrock. Additionally one of them swore that except for sample number 3554, all of the samples taken at the site including sample number Winters took his fight to the Arizona Senators, and last November a special agent from the Office of the Inspector General, United States Department of Agriculture, arrived in Tombstone from his headquarters in San Francisco. A thorough examination of the alleged perjuries and other acts were conducted in the six weeks that followed. Among statements made in this examination was one by Verne C. McCutchan, Arizona Mine Inspector, who said, It is my opinion that the Forest Service made deliberate a attempt to invalidate this by improper 3553, had been taken to property sampling. MAKING THE charge to a special agent of the Office of the Inspector General, United States bedrock. Knowing that samples of' the examination Department of Agriculture, was 3556 and 3553' had not come by Reports Office of the Inspector the Hied Wayne Winters of Tombstone, close to bedrock, Winters General ' of the perjury matter who is owner and operator of the perjury complaint. and other charges were the Oro Escondido placer claim Sampling material at or on forwarded to the United States which is located close to the bedrock in examining a gold in of Agriculture Secretary Mexican border in Santa Cruz placer claim is important Details of the because gold, an extremely February. made County. Ariz. by Winters complaints The original complaint, along heavy mineral, tends to were made not earlier in public with charges against four other concentrate right on bedrock order that the involved persons Forest Service employes, was and in the first few inches above could not claim that any made on September 10, 1968, to it. Accepted gold sampling' was made at attempt influencing Deputy Chief E.W. Schultz of procedures call for removing the investigation through the the Forest Service in material to the surface of the publishing of information on the bedrock in every instance, for it Washington, D.C. The two engineers conducted is here that almost always will be subject. a mineral examination of the found the richest values. Boyles Bros. Drilling Co. CONTESTED sample pit number 3553 provides graphic example of failure of Forest Service Mineral Examiners to go to bedrock. KUftll UU KITS MaSsMann af Rack Drill GKs Utah C&M sells construction assets SAN FRANCISCO-Anot- her record of $6,200,000 in consolidated net earnings was reported by Utah Construction & Mining Co. for its first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 1969. The current figure is $1,324,000 above the $4,876,000 reported for the same fiscal period in 1968. After giving retroactive effect to the 3 for 1 stock split effected in the form of a stock dividend paid on February 14, 1969, first quarter earnings in 1969 amounted to 48 cents a share as compared with 38 cents in the first quarter of 1968. On the same basis, but assuming of outstanding conversion debentures, results would be 45 MOBILE CRANE SERVICE If TO 60 cents in the first quarter of 1969 as against 36 cents in 1968. E.W. Littlefield, president and general manager, released the figures following a regular of the quarterly meetingdirectors in companys board of San Francisco. 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Bos . 359-20- 85 Reforms 4031106 Mexico City 5 D.F. Caillla 21-Santiago, Chile D Caiilla 5166 Lima, Peru & Manager 1 INTELLIGENT DEVELOPMENT of our natural resources 550 WEST 17th SOUTH ERECTION CONCRETE Los Angeles alltoof purchase Utahs heavy substantially LOW BOOMS SITE 363-51- shareholders of record on March 31. THE DIRECTORS also voted to accept the offer of The Fluor Of anticipated at the annual contract to be concluded, meeting of shareholders held CAMOTT ON RUIIEK EXTRA number of shares was declared, payable April 14, 1969 to CONIMCTnW SERVICES T Fr Al l lpas P.' 0. Box 687 - Salt Lake City, Utah CLAIMS will create new industries jJj ;J6 EXCHANGE Sell, lease or option properties to individuals or major companies. Contact: K. D. MINERALS COMPANY P.O. Box 11211 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Subscribe to our monthly publication of listings at $5.00 a year. Send ys yours to be published at no charge. Temple Mountain Uranium Co. 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