Show IT IS NOT MINERAL The Eureka Townsite Worth Nothing lor Mining Purposes That Is tIle Opinion of a Witness Who Testified Testi-fied ichtenlixy Its Value for Towuslie Purposes When the hearing In the townsito case was resumed in the land office yesterday I Mr Green was recalled and he testified that in order to develop these claims in the I ownsite aroa it would bo necessary to have outside capital I Judge Sutherland there was but one locator would he not have to go off and ob aln work in order to secure money to develop elop his claim 1 The Witnesn 1 have known prospects mining camps in different parts of the west here to bo developed to a greater depth than 200 feet by the efforts alone of the locators caters being poor oven having to work for su months on their prospects and then go to work for wages for living or a grubstake grub-stake as they call it among miners and kept on to work in that way until they reached pay ore QWnat mines xflsthln the townsite of Eureka and immediately around the same have been developed into paying concerns by a prospector or a miner without capital AThe Eureka Hill has pay ore right on the top QWho developed that mino without capital Name the miner AI can name a good many that were working on it on the surface on leases Mr Robert Hetderson for one I think ie and his partner took out some 4000 or 5000 from a very small space on the sur face The principal portion of the ore was taken from rock in places There has been no ore shipped from any mines on tho ownsite except what may have been shipped from the Keystone or if any portion of the Beck mino is od the townsite I will mention that and the Eureka Judge SutherlandWhat In your jug ment is the land within the townsite worth for mining purposes The question was objected to by Major Bird on the ground that the witness was not competent to answer Judge SutherlandHe knows there has never been a poundof ore extracted from the land within the townnita Major Bird promptly That is testimony testi-mony of the attorney and not of the witness Witness replying to Judge Sutherlands last question According to my judgment the land is not worth anything at all Of course it is worth more for building purges pur-ges than for mining purposes because there aro no mines on It Robert Henderson was the next witness called for tho townsite applicants He is a miner residing at Eureka and has lived there since 1872 He had prospected he said a great deal and knew the territory included within the townite as applied for in this office There was a great deal of wash on the south side of the town on the north side of the main street where the bed rock cropped to the surface the indication indica-tion of the rock was granite On the underground workings it was granite and some property laid between the granite and wash Q Speaking of the townsite ground ana with reference to its character every part of it state whether it is mineral or nonmineral AIt is nonmineral QDoes it possess any and if so what value for mining purposes I A None QAre you able to form judgment of the value of that ground for a townsito purpose 1 mean with a good title I AWell it is worth 350 or MOO alot of about 20x50 QIn what part of the townalte I AIn what thoy call Main street QWl1at In your judgment is the surface sur-face worth between the excluded claims and the west line of the Diablo Alt is worth from 50 to f400 a lot Q State whether there are within the limits of the townslte any mining claims y elding pay ore A1here is no ore at all within the limits of the townsite so far as I have ever seen I never know of ore having been found in Eureka outside of the limestone formation After some further testimony on theso points had been given the court adjourned I |