Show blell fw usi the big case is slowly progressing BEING proof of alic plain hirs in arc the bakios of for plaintiffs in the bis pi canyon still oa but nothing more than corroborative testimony was today taken examination seems to indi the cross calta th u the will try to prove dam only it will priority as to the big coilin on rebuttal testimony in ari f is a follows WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON W B searles another power blant engineer commenced work for mr maun in Nove rooer 1895 checking lavda in the canon he was engaged and found for a distance lur two days was then staked ut some brush had been cleared away the next time ho went to the canyon 1896 and bis testimony v s in arc ir in that i im imi i was mainly t vo of mr testimony on A ri 23 he stuck a elake 85 sect oe ane river on the mountain sida and marked on the stake water line canyon the 0 tup contour line thin run on both bides ot visible A map tha canyon waa plainly of the big surveyed was introduced in evidence about the madle m adle of april the R G W surveyors on the becane running a line through the canyon witness then notified the railway of the dam and reservoir surveys the railroad coald well go above the ilam witness testified fyr twenty or twenty fiva nd bollara extra expense he baand baaed hia estimate on es experience as a railroad en aneer the arob crob examination seemed to he with a view to placing the curvey for permanent or hiah dam later than the railway survey on re direct it was stated thit the same water hundred million cubic feet the capacity of the canyon reserve r could be scored on charleston flat with a 60 foot dam that site is now with farms THURSDAY FORENOON engineer was recalled and save a little testimony on the surveying done oa the level he had run a line he eaid from hanging rock down the canyon on the 60 foot level feet and crose sectioned it work had on that survey june 6 1896 A road over the dam on tho south side and across south fork giuld cost it was estimated 2000 on cross examination he was closely qu ed ats to hla estimates on raila road and the practicability of a road above the camhe was also required to figure on the coat of construction of the dam up to the 60 foot level En elneer kramer was recalled recall sd and testified that on march 27 1896 he the following notice 1 I hereby claim for the purpose of ons a all laying up this stream below the level of this point and propose to use the same or a reservoir by the erection of a dam at jhb so that it will reta n the water of this on a level with this notice I 1 propose lo 10 use the water for agricultural aud turine purposes the water to ba conducted from this point to the mouth of the canyon and thelca on the benches of utah vaclev L L NUNN march utah utah that notice was placed on the 60 foot level guv sterling a civil engineer had gone up the canyon jan 9 1896 with mr K admerand was showed the several surveys the testimony was objected to objection overrated in february 1898 witness had met mr nunn and the latter then stated that he wanted bids on a flume mr nunn said the wark being put in was only temporary that he had in view later putting in a permanent dam some time in the future the pla int effs iffs of strenuous objections to this line of testimony but the court admitted it mr sterling then described the contract secured from mr nunn and the feet ot flaming put in mr sterling bad worked in it with his force of men from aug 18 to dec the flume is put in so it can be moved at any time without injury to it on cross examination he said tho contract for t re work was signed by L L annn it would only take a dam of seven or eight feet to fill the flume from the river as the flume is now constructed |