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personal knowledge.

Q.136 The complaint avers that the defend=
=and undertook to purchase certain coal
for the plaintiff, or for the Western Pacific
Railroad Company. Is there any such
contract in existence, to your knowledge?

A. No such contract, as I know of: no
written contract, that I know of.

Q. 137 Do you know anything about the other
averment is the complaint, — that the
defendant undertook to obtain transporta=
=tion, or to transport, coal for the plaintiff,
or for the Western Pacific Railroad Company?

A. I know the defendant did transport
coal for it.

Q. 138 Will you state what you know about
that transportation?

A. Well, I know that coal was received,
transported upon the barges or schooners
of the defendant, from the bills coming
in — Schooner "Elko's" cargo, or Schooner
"Truckee's" cargo — coming under my super=
=vision to be allowed.

Q. 139 Are those the schooner's which you
have already spoken of, for which you
charged the hire to the defendant?

A. They are.

Q. 140 Who made that contract with the

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