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Show THE EUREKA TOWNSITE. Tlie tppallaHU WW Hold tlie Tort Till The Middle of Next Weok. In the Eureka townsite examluatio-.i today Samuel II. Nelaon waa recalled for further , ro-exr.miuation. "Calllttg your attention to the residence numbered 1 r( on the towDsite ma, and within the limits at the homestead owned ami occupied hy Mr. Sullivan, I will ask If you protested against the erection of that building f Mr. Bird objected. Bttttalned. "Pleaae tell mc the difference between gianlte and porphyry?" Mr. Bird objected; overruled. "I am no expert." "Do you mean by that that you do not know the difference?" "I mean that It takes an expert to analyse the rocks to know what they contain," The question was repeated and Mr. Hire) agllill nhjreted. "I told him I didn't. It takes an assayer to assay it to tlnd out the dillercnce. Kuow-iug Kuow-iug and an opinion are twodirTerentthings." 'To w hom ilid you sell a lot or a portion of the Unmeet ad ground to for ?."00'" "I forget what bis name is now." "Was I he exchange that you have refer, red to as having been made with Mr. Pow. era and this $.r sale all the sales that you have made of grounds within the Homestead Home-stead ?" "Tea." "Have you ottered to sell any oilier lotsor pan el of ground w ithin the Homestead':" "Not to my knowledge; 1 have a partucr in this claim." "Do you know whether or not your partner part-ner has offered to sciiy" "I do not. He has refused a number of times to my knowledge.'" "Has it not been generally known and understood un-derstood in Eureka that lots or parcels of ground within that claim were for sale and could lie purchased hy those desiring to do so : I Mr. BIrl We object to that as irrelevant and immaterial, unless it is shown that the mine owners have been offering the lots for sale. I Ibjectlon overruled. ''There have been several lots change tin in In up there by- other moil who had Ideated Id-eated on the grouud." "Has it not been generally understood thai lots or pan els of ground within the Homestead claim could be purchased from either yourself, your partner, or your duly aut horized agents ?" No." Re direct examination. "I asked you in direct examination if you had done the assessment w ork each year upon the Homestead and you answered that it had ! been done; I w ill now ak you if you simply i did tbe assessment work to cover the law, or have von expended as much us your menus Would allow in the development of that ciaim since its location?" "I have done the assessment work and |