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Q. Do you know anything about the woods ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. In what way have you acquired that knowledge ? 



A. By experience. 



Q. In what line? 



A. In surveying and lumbering; also as forester. 



Q. What did you find with reference to timber having been cut on 

 lots 69, 71 and" 72? 



A. I found that timber had been cut there, the spruce and hemlock; 

 judging from the appearance of the tops atad stumps they had been 

 cut about five years. 



Q. Is a man of experience and acquainted with that business able 

 to determine that fact ? 



A. Nearly so. 



Q. You could tell to a certainty substantially as to whether it had 

 been done within a year or two ? 



A. Yes, sir- 



Q. What do you say in reference to that? 



A. I should say it was done about five years ago. 



Q. You would be clear that it hadn't been done within the last year - 

 or two ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Are you the Mr. Powers who made a proposition to the com- 

 mission to exchange the lands under the Hadley bill? 



A. No, sir; my name is Bradley; I offered to exchange lands with 

 them. 



Q. What became of the offer? 



A. They sent me back a blank to fill out; I made an examination 

 and I found that they had no title to it; that the person who wanted 

 I should make this application had no title; that it then belonged to 

 the State. 



Q. And the whole matter fell through for that reason ? 

 ' A. Yes, sir. 



By Mr. Adams: 

 Q. You only acted as agent or broker for some other party ? 

 A. It was my son-in-law, Mr. Evans. 

 Q. You were acting for a third person ? 

 A. Yes, sir. 



Q. The land he offered belonged to the State and not to him, and 

 that ended it ? 

 A. Yes, sir. 



