Show STANDS SEVERE CROSSFIRE Kearns Attorney Attempts to Shatter Damaging Testimony Testimony Testimony mony of Engineer REVIEWS BROOKS ERROR MINE DISCREPANCIES AND HOW THEY xu WERE MADE Frank Anderson chief engineer and surveyor for tor the tho Silver SUver King ing Consoli Consolidated Consolidated dated Mining company was on the witness ss stand all during yesterdays session of the hearing before Special SP Examiner E J W Christy in the suit against the Silver King Coalition Mines company During all of ot the he time he was wag en vu n th tb stand s nd Anderson was subjected to a severe cr sa m by W H II Dickson chief chiet coun counsel counsel counsel sel for the Kearns concern From the nature of his lila questions qu lons It was evident that the defendants coun counsel counsel counsel sel had decided to Ignore the subject of the Joint survey which appears to tobe tobe tobe be such an Important link linkin Jn the chain of circumstances operating against the Coalition company Instead he took tock up the question of ot Brooks Books former sur survey survey vey of the which according to previous testimony has hes shown no lit little littIe littie tIe tle discrepancies as compared with Andersons former forner survey I Most of ot the questions fired at the witness by Mr Dickson on were unusual unusually I ly 17 lengthy and very ver frequently they I had to be repeated from the stenographers stenographers stenographers notes After Mr Dickson tad had gone over all ail the discrepancies s which Anderson had called caned attention att to In his direct examination he inquired of the witness if it he did not think that Brooks survey of ot the Parsons an unusually accurate one Anderson replied replie that he did not I think so although he admitted that it i I was a fair survey with a compass but not an accurate one If I had made that survey with a i compass he added nodded I would have I gone over It again and where I found that there was a discrepancy of ot sev several several several eral feet In a static atlo run from two lines of o survey start from different points I would have ha checked up on onit onIt onit it What Anderson t suM Do I Taking up Un Brooks notes and the map that Anderson AI platted from them I Mr Dickson continued the examina examination examination examination tion In the first place he referred to station P IS lS and station P IS 19 which the Brooks survey showed vertically over each other The map platted by I Anderson showed that they were not I that station P was considerably to the I east After Uter the variations had been scaled Mr Dickson asked ask d Anderson what he be would ouId have done Dc If it he had bad I been in Brooks place on the map I have closed up the discrepancy by ing the variations which appear in iu the result of or the survey suney Anderson re replied replied replied plied The next Instance was station P 49 where Brooks notes showed s two for the same plate place 1 e His notes I showed a discrepancy of ot tour four r feet feer be tween the th survey to station P 49 from two lines of survey Buney starting from dir dif ferent terent points Anderson when asked what he would have done In such uth a acas case cas declared that he would have closed up the discrepancy In platting the map and that he certainly would have figured out the variations Mr Dickson did not like the Lle quail fied fled answers however He questioned Anderson in regard to certain c drifts and fills which had b en n figured fl lr d In the estimated cavity of or the Part of the tag raise was omitted because ho he was unable to get an estimate of the size of the portion which va n filled fined The of Anderson Andason will probably be finished this morning when C P Books will be placed on the witness stand I |