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Q. Was that order to the warden in writing or verbally ? 



A. I couldn't tell you. 



Q. Was the action directing the warden to go and make the exam- 

 ination entered upon your record of your proceedings? 



A. That is more than I can tell you. 



Q. Was anything said to you or any other of the commissioners by 

 the Everton Lumber Company, or any member of it, upon that sub- 

 ject previous to filing a formal application for exchange ? 



A.- Not that I have any recollection of. 



Q. The first thing you knew anything about it, the application in 

 writing was filed in the office ? 



A. No; I think the first that was said about it was Mr. Fatton.'I 

 think, appeared before the commission and said that he would like to 

 offer — I think that was it — some land in exchange for certain other 

 land belonging to the State. 



Q. When did he state that ? 



A. I couldn't tell you the date of that. 



Q. How long was it before the written application to exchange 

 being filed? 



A. 1 couldn't tell you. 



Q. When was it that Warden Garmon was sent up there this way — 

 was it after or before the formal written application was filed? 



A. My recollection is that it was after the written application. 



Q. He came there and talked about it and then filed his written 

 'application and then Mr. Garmon was sent up there ? 



A Yes, sir. 



Q. When did he go up there? 



A. I couldn't tell you the exact date, but it was sometime last 

 summer. 



Q. Did he go all alone ? 



A. I couldn't tell you. 



Q. Any of the commissioners go with him ? 



A NoJ sir. 



Q. Garmon went up along in the summer, and what time did he 

 come back and make his report ? 



A. I couldn't tell you the exact date. 



Q. What was the substance of his report to the commission ? 



A. The substance of the report was, as I understood it, that the 

 Everton Land Company offered to exchange for 7,000 acres and offered 

 other lands in exchange, and the report of the warden was that there 

 were lands in township 12 I think that ought to be included with 

 the other and if the exchange could be effected upon a basis of two 

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