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| A PROFITABLE DBAL | INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING! A MINING SALE. , Property Bought From Government! ; for $10,500 _ Afterwards Sold for { $330,000 -- Information in Regard } to a Transaction in Automobiles. l That the Government sold for $10,.--| | 300 a property in the Gillies -- limit | that a short time afterward changed _ hands at $330,000 was the interest-- ing information brought out in the . | Public Accounts Committee yesterday _ morning during the examination _ of " Mr. J. A. Young of North Bay. The & examination was conducted by Mr. J |C, Elliott (West Middlesex), in the |absence of Mr. D. J. McDougal. The _member from East Ottawa had been ""'Vestigating the transaction in ques-- t ;fiOn, but as Mr. Young-- appeared rather unexpectedly, Mr. .McDougal was not on hand to conduct the in-- quiry, and the work devolved . upon _ | Mr. Elliott. _ |_ Mr. Young, when called, explained : the circumstances leading up to the ?'Dll!'chase of the property. He had -- | had. he said, no information -- othet -- _ | than that provided in the public re-- _ _ ports and maps of the Province. He and Mr. M. J. O'Brien had made a tender of $10,500 for a parcel known _ fas A23. Their tender had been ac-- cepted, * Mr,. ~--Elliott--How much land was there in that parcel? A.--About twenty --acres. E And@ what did you sell it for? Wit-- _]| ness said that he had disposed of the J property to Mr; James A. Brooke of {Montreal for $330,000. He had spent _ -- |about $3,500 on the property in the . 5' meantime, prospecting. trenching and i _ | testing veins, . . In answer to a question by Mr.o j _ Elliott, Mr. Young said that he under-- | _ _stood the Wyando Mining Company ' now owned the property. The mem-- | __ber for Middlesex brought out the l _ _ fact 'that the property had been our-- | -- _chased 'by Mr. Brooke for the syndi-- ' 'eate composed of Messrs. "Ogilvie, | Hersey, Pringle and Mitchell, who. | formed the mining company. l Mr. Young explained that l)('t'urr-l| the property had been sold. to the| ~-- syndicate they sent four engineers up' to inspect it., and it was upon their| recommendation that the gsale. was | carried through. He said that when' the property was purchased from the | | Government they were of the npin-" ion that they had got a poor hargain.f but after they had located several| j rich yveins they were able to sell thc' property at the advanced price, ! Mr. Eliiott did not carry the ex.| amination further, and 'the witness | was allowed to go. || The sale to the Hydro--eclectric Com-- ' ! mission of two second--hand autos,, \ which had formerly belonged. to .\lr.i" P. W,. Sothman, chief engincer of | | the ~commission. and to (Mr. J. ('.I' | Beck, brother of the-- Minister-- of| | Power. was again gone -- into. Mr." | Bothman was not examined further|| 1 by Mr. J. C. Elliott, but to Mr. Mu-H \-- _ Garry (Renfrew) he detailed the cir-- || L cumstances leading up to the transfer | '1 of his car to the commission,. He sub--| 8 ' mitted statements showing that he ; | had spent $686 in having the car re-- l 1 paired after he had purchased | |, it, and had put about one hundred| dollars' worth of work upon it person.||' ally. Hix--car and the Beck car had || been sod> to:-- the Automobile & | Supply Company for $3,200, or $1.. i_] 600 each, and --immediately _ turned 'l over to the commission at the same '1 price, according to a previous un-- |1 derstanding. He had vaid $1,250 " for his car in the first place. _ _Mr. Elliott --&alled Mr. Armstrong, \Assistant Provincial Secretary, whom '1 he questioned as to a license issued |\ to Mr. Sothman. The books showed .!a 'a license issued to the chief engineer 'g for a Rambler: car, which Mr. Soth-- | e man earlier in the inguiry said he | r had never owned. | c en en mnmmmmmmmmmmmmee I -- nomnrterm postvenproninmtrmmnimqenenermmmng menon,, ||