Show EPERT EXPERT USES PAN LIKE TENDERFOOT I Old Od Miners Testimony Is Epa Fea Feature F a ture of r Claim Contest Contest Dexterity In panning gold gold or lack of It I became an Important feature of a hearing in hi the district court at Moab recently of at atthe the case of the United States St tes against M MI I 1 Fowler Fowier In which Is Involved the right of t Fowler Fowle to patent valuable ground In Miners Basin Basi as a a placer claim caim The ap application ap application was contested on the ground gound that the claim caim which is likely at some time to tobe tobe tobe be utilized as a townsite Is being held for speculative purposes rather than for mining ruining B ii BL i Wheeler expert epert miner for the forestry forest service serice testified that after re repeated repeated repeated tests testa test on the claim he had found no pay py dirt This Thi Incited George W V Hep Hp burn leading witness winess for the defense when he was on the stand to remark J I have been placer mining since 1860 lO and I have met a a great many tender tend r feet fet but Wheelers attempt at panning was far and away away the crudest effort that I have ever seen sen made If I there was any gold In the pan after atter Wheeler was through panning the colors must have been mighty big ones The application for patent was made in good faith for tor placer mining and not for speculative purposes Hepburn added I Only enough work has been done donI the last four years ears to hold the property for the reason that Supervisor Snow of the I forestry forstr service had given the owners no tice to t vacate they did not know what might be b done to defeat def at their claim and they the did not want to do a lot of ot work and lose it I tal all a Judge George F Powell Powel an expert miner of Moab testified that he had pros prospected prospected on Castle Caste creek crek for Colonel Dris Driscoll coil coll col in 1892 Only about 5 50 in gold was cleaned up from two months work He i later found In the diggings a piece of rock which assayed 30 a ton in i gold He believed that better results would have been obtained had they reached bedrock bedrock |