Biographical Notice 



be kept free from any suspicion of 

 utilizing, for the benefit of any party 

 smaller than the whole of a mining 

 community, the knowledge gained in 

 that capacity ; and he exacted from 

 every subordinate a pledge in this 

 particular, corresponding with his own 

 practice. But when not thus honor- 

 ably bound, he repeatedly acted as 

 adviser, or gave expert testimony, for 

 clients. In this line, having both 

 encountered Mr. King as an opponent 

 and benefited by his assistance as a 

 colleague, I may claim to be qualified 

 as a critic of his work — or rather of 

 his character as shown by his work. 



In the first place, he was, as I think 

 an expert witness ought to be, an 

 honest partisan. He did not carry to 

 the witness stand the doubts or un- 

 certainties which he might have felt 

 during his previous study of the case. 

 He came forward with a theory al- 

 ready deliberately adopted, and for 

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