9 home, and when I returned next day it was [?caring] still. The cross cuts were put through the full height of the coal. I expect it would have improved the safety of the mine if the dust had been watered every day. To the Foreman – My partners on the afternoon shift were Jonathan Bhundell and George Biggs. To Mr Eberts – There was not any one working in the stall below me on the third of May. Jonathan Martin had been working there To the Cormer. The height of the diagonal slope varies. At the upper end it is not more than six feet. In some places if it is twenty feet. There are pockets formed in the roof. Curtains were placed were required for the purpose of dividing the air into the high places Taken upon oath and acknowledged this 25th day of May in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight seven before me } James Malpass [Whymm strathern?] Cormer

To Mr Eberts Joshua Martell Miner Nanaimo being duly sworn south: I am a miner and have been mining as such for twenty two years. I was working in the new slope of the number one shaft of the Vancouver Coal Company’s works. I was working there on the morning of the third of May last. I was working in coal about one hundred yards from the face of the diagonal and I had been working there about six months. We always had plenty of air. A good current. Over