Show I COMPANY KNEW OF S PRESENCE OF COAL R. R J. J Kirker of Harmony Utah Important Witness in the theL theLand theLand L Land Fraud Cases r. r FIRST TO MAKE SURVEY Told Utah Fuel Experts Sunnyside Sunnyside Sunny Sunny- side H Hills is I Were ere Pregnant With F Fuel p J lell S' S t S Utah OCr occupied oc OC- OC- OC r. r H. H J J. J Kirker of or Harmony r S the entire afternoon Thurs Thursday a cUllell In direct testimony In the tho Utah tah Fuel Juel Lewis cUlpan company hearing before Lewi In the United States Circuit courtroom This witness Is considered by Ly tho the government gov sov- most S attorneYs as 8 ono of or the and 1 to establish h their case already nas prove proved most Ills his testimony t. t o. o S valuable ma made e the tue original discovery Ic ii sl and und andyS c i. i r- r of tf t the lie roul Holds s In iii S nn district In the tile y-S y S u made n c tho the first locations of or his tea tea- Cs- Cs The most feature that it wasS was th the effect rG was to i S inon 1101 hIs hIM as to tu the great Value of the lands n s fur for the coal thc they contained that the defendant companies employed cd dummies to o take theta them lands as gra ln up His lIs 18 examination showed allowed in substance substanceS S that lie he hud had traced d the lie coal belt bel some sonic ho Green I twenty years ear ago trout from distance of or GUS GU'S GU GO Cole Colo westward tor for or a 0 S 'S tidies miles to the e district He lie coal that hut would be bethe was Iii n starch search of 11 the best bist grade o to col coke an and it was r S that he lie found Cound I It j J 4 S Before Government U hurt Survey He lie ma made c a survey of the lie district before bei be be- had been becil 1 survey tho 2 i fore forc go government made In oz order cr that he might obtainS obtain r. r sune survey was SaS wasI when witch the S t rights orcal completed Jle Jf testified that lie he and andI ald I his associates located some somo acres acresS I of oC the land where the lie coal outcrops ap- ap d 1 J. J S but lit at ut the lie time was well wel aware of or the tho beds bed lying under the adjacent the tue dummies afterward afterward afterward after after after- which J. J land hwd upon which no outcrops ward located oil located on were found rho Tho location was r l to tho the lan lands taken talen up only because of or the arbitrary ruling of the lie land and dc- dc S J 5 pa i tin cut that on only I lands that had on coal each U on r could be he I taken up tip as ns coal conI lands an 5 II I. I His testimony co covered the lie period of T tho sate sale ul to 0 Superintendent Sharp and S Attorney representing the Pleasant Pleas Pleas- torne 1 j ant Hit aUe Valley Coal ConI company compan th the lie stock of or which Is now owned ned by Y the Utah Fuel 5 company of compan-of of the GOO acre tract It I 5 was at this time tirite that lint he lie pointed out outto outto to Sharp and Bird his lila opinion of or the lie lw 5 adjoining land which lie he said sal first fr t gave ga gaveS S them item notice of Its Is value He lie said ld that he lie then tItan and tl ha had bath alwa always vay considered the theland theland tic land on which titer there were wern no outcrops lS to bo he of oC a much greater value than titan the theland theland theland land upon which the tIe outcrops appeared S for rOl the Lie reason that tat the thc coal beds un under cr tho the land would be Lc 0 of at a much better grade because of their grent greater r depth and lie tho UI consequent Trot protection from sur stir t. t face ucc action acton o of air nir wind In and water Ills Ils SS opinion was based ic said bald on the thorough thor titer J t 5 ought ough examination he lie had made of the thc theS the'S eXt S 1 I. I conditions condition that showed showell t coal Outcrops on both tides sides of o the thc he cur cov- S f S ered land lying between the same strata r and surrounded sU by the amo samo Iamo con conditions S t r H of r Deposit 1 These views the lie witness said had been Leen pointed out to Sharp and S with the the expression that he lie was as sure that thal the ito coal beds continued under the covered co land as if lie hc had hac seen them hem with wih the the ph physical eye Cc Following this Interview Inter began tao tC locating of the thc theS theland S land b by the employed Mr Ir will wi be Lc retained on the i stand toda today for thc tic rest of his direct 4 examination and aud the tl he e examination cross lb Is expected to taku several se eral days more Inure It will be Lc the aim of ot the tho I wi prosecution l S.- S. to show v sho that upon the thc advice nd of this his witness and others as ns well wel as first hand S. information that the defendants hired S I the men and women to make the en entries tries on oil 01 the tl lands land us grazing lan lands s well vell knowing knowing- them to be Le valuable as coal lu lands s only |