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, Gross-Examination : 

 By Mr. Adams : 



Q. Are you an engineer ? 



A. Well, I have worked on building railroads, civil engineering and 

 a graduate of Union College Civil Engineering School. 



Q. You are familar with Mr. Colvin's survey ? 



A. I have read everything that Mr. Colvin has written on the 

 matter. 



Q. So you know the fact that the corner of the line, south corner 

 of the line, between Herkimer and Lewis county, was established by 

 Mr. Colvin? 



A. Mr. Colvin, I understand, ran part of the line. 



Q. He ran up so that he established the corner in the Oneida 

 county line between Herkimer and Lewis on the banks of the south 

 branch of Moose river, I think ? 



A The. particulars I don't recollect now. 



Q. You recollect the general fact? 



A. He did a large amount of work there and established part of 

 the line. 



Q. What was the traditional corner he established as the real 

 corner by following up the lines of their surveys, went way back to 

 Canada creek? 



A. Yes. 



Q. And erected an observatory on Conner hill and made some 

 triangulation, that being so the true corner in the Oneida county line, 

 between Lewis and Herkimer; what is the objection to surveying out 

 that line; having a well-established corner and the direction of the 

 statute, why couldn't the Herkimer county line be made the west 

 boundary of the park and that line established just as well as any of 

 the old lines in the woods that Mr. Colvin did establish; that would 

 take c^own, far to the west of the blue line, a wooded country, with an 

 elevation of 1,000 feet on the Herkimer *county line; what is the 

 objection to making that line ? 



A The other lines that you refer ,to he re-established; he, in a 

 great many cases, found the old lines and re-established them, but, as 

 I understand it, there is no line there to re-establish; there is nothing 

 but a meridian line there. 



Q. There is a'description in the statute of the line between the two 

 counties, which, in point of fact, has never been run, and the taxes 

 from Lewis county extends in Herkimer, and the taxes from Herkimer 

 extends in Lewis, so that a large belt of land, a mile or two miles 

 wide, is in a constant dispute, so that no tax title can be got ? 



