30 depends upon its temperature. The dust in the slope is not dry as that in Mount Diablo. To the Juryman: If I threw a short pile of dust it would not create a very thick cloud but a little cloud. If the room was filled with dust and well stirred up it would be dangerous. But it must have air with it. It must be dry before it will light. If it was stirred up and heated to an explosion point it would explode with a light. When it by is lying it will not explode light. To the Comer: The Mount Diablo dust was sent flying about the shuts but this was quiescent. If a small portion was stirred up it would not explode to any great distance. IF there was a small quantity of gas mixed with the fine coal dust when in a state of interaction and a light were applied it would probably go off. 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 } Archie Cowie W Wymond Walkem Coronier

William Edmunds Miner Nanaimo being duly saith: To Mr Young. It was part of my duty to attend to the {?runs} of the boxes on the new or diagonal slope. I know the number four level on the diagonal slope. As you go in to it there is a curtain stretched from side to side. The boxes had all to pass under this curtain in going into the number four level. This would raise the curtain as the run was going through. If nothing happened it would take about two seconds for the run to pass through. Boxes