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Show TIE LAIB CAMS. Xr. McBefmlek, C &, Bat gomt re EtMtmo to fiire. The gTeattr portion of yesterday afternoon's sitting at the United States LandOfflce was devoted to the exmlnatlon of Mr. R. A. McCor-mlck McCor-mlck in regard to the dams and ponds in the locality of the beach lands, and although much Information Informa-tion bearing on the case was obtained, ob-tained, the proeeedinga were almost entirely devoid of Interest to the reading public Upon being questioned ques-tioned by Mr. Thompson as to the character of the lands around the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, in Tooele Valley, the witness said they possssed many features similar to parts of the land In dispute. The growth of vegetation, too, bora a decided de-cided similarity. Major Bird moved to strike out the last sentence, urging that It was an attempt on thi part of the witness wit-ness to Interject responsive answers which certainly went toahowhis Interest In ths case. As a rejoinder to this objection, Mr-Thompson directed the atten- tlono.' the Iteglstrar and Receiver to the testimony of Trofessor Marcus 1 Jones and the balauce of the expert ex-pert witnesses on the same side. nar. tlcularly that of Mr. Owen and Mr. Sheltou, Insisting it was "a poor rule that would not Work two ways." Major Bird I can only express urprise at the list remarks of counsel. coun-sel. They would have been opportune, oppor-tune, probably, while the gentlemen gentle-men named were on the stand, but are too late now to be considered as an objection to testimony which I has been given and signed soma I days ago, and a poor excuse for irrelevant testimony, or volunteer testimony, from a witness of his own. We expected to be instructed as counsel Introduced his case, and not to have him assert that we had committed errors which ho proposes to follow in introducing his own case. Witness said that during his residence re-sidence in the west he had taken a lively Interest on every progressive topic and felt himself to be perfectly perfect-ly familiar with the ordinary growths in the mountains and valleys val-leys of the west. He was also familiar fami-liar with the plants which grew noon the so-called desert lands of the wesL Witness was questioned as to certain cer-tain growths, eux, upon the Dyer, Auerbach and Cobn entries, but this drew a series of otjectionsto such questions from the protestauts' side. Kvidence was next given as to the taking of certain photographic photograph-ic views of the lands in dispute, and with this the afternoon's business closed. This morning, when lhe Court re-asoemUed, Mr. McCormick continued con-tinued his testimony, which dealt largely in theoutset with matters of detail, including tlir identification and explanation of additional photographs photo-graphs of the beach land; Witness Siid he was in no way directly or indirectly interested in the result of these land contests, except ex-cept as an engineer and surveyor. Mr. McCormick, in cross-examination, told of his acquaintance with the Great Salt Lake dating from his first viit to it in the ear 1S:1. He remembered that it was very much higher In lSSltlianat the present time. He could not say, however, how much it had fallen, but was sure that a number ofthepoats now exposed at Lake Point were then covered. The Inquiry was in progress when the Xews went to prrss. |
