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Q. How far is it from the Beaver river on this blue line where it 

 crosses Beaver river, how far is it from that point to the point where 

 the blue line crosses MJoose river ? 



A. That is more than I can tell you. 



Q. Thirty or forty miles ? 



A. I don't think it is that much. 



Q. Twenty or thirty? 



A. No, I don't think it is; I should judge about twenty miles. 



Q. So that as these lines are run, if a park were laid out and the 

 State were to exercise the right of eminent domain within its lines it 

 would leave out the Everton Lumber Company and the Beaver Biver 

 Lumber Company mills' territory, or to a very large extent? 



A. The Beaver Biver Lumber Company hasn't any mills. 



Chairman Byan.— We didn't hear the answer. 



The Witness. — The Beaver Biver Lumber Company hasn't any mills. 



Q. I understood you to testify that they had made a long contract 

 with you to do their sawing at your mill ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. So in that sense they command your mill at the rate of ten mil- 

 lions and twenty and thirty millions a year until this country is 

 exhausted? 



A- Tes, sir. 



Q. What I say is, if the right of eminent domain were to be 

 , exercised within the blue lines it would exclude the Everton Lumber 

 Company operations and the Beaver Biver Lumber Company opera- 

 iSons, would it not? 



A It would exclude how; let me understand; I don't quite grasp 

 that. 



A. If the State didn't go west of this blue line they couldn't con- 

 demn these lands through here; they wbuld be saved for the lumber 

 operations of your mill ? 



A. I don't see how that would affect my mill or contract. 



Chairman Byan. — Can't you answer that question ? 



The Witness. — I will endeavor to answer; I don't want counsel to 

 answer for me; it would not affect either my mills or myself individu- 

 ally in any shape, form or manner. 



Q. I don't ask that question; the question I asked was, wouldn't it 

 save to the Beaver Biver Lumber Company this timber to be sawed 

 out at your mill under the contract they have with you ? 



A. If this, line goes as it is? 



Q. Yes? 



A. Yes; I think it would. 



