Prince re, the s::escribor, porus:nally appeared Ril: SCAUSS vilo, being nud: 3:07, says that Prison Spider Viniry Corny has been engage: jl, has started or will star, and is. projected to carry to completin the requiral annual 255e3 suert kors on the patrited luie mising claims nereinafter nec.ed. This a359ssiment vor?: day consist of drilling operations on the said claims; or coring; or photographic operations on drill cuttings or outcrops; or zaophysical or geological operations; or expenditure of money by various means; os, roplacing or repairi: posts or other markers on the property and all other related work. The claims to which the foregoin; pertains era locaisd in Sweeiiater County, koaing, and are ciescribed

2.3 Collos:

S.. Clauis, beginning with i'o. 1 and nuribered more or less consecutively through
llo. 2855, and located in Sections Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 17, 18, 21,
3?, 27, 20, 31, 32, 33 and 34, Township 24 North, Range 2001 esi; in Sections

03. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 17, 18, 20 and 22, To:sio 23 torth, Rige
2.Xes; in sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ?, 8, 9, 10, 1112, 13, 14, 15, 17,
is, 19, 20, 21, 23, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33, Township 24 North, Rengo lort33t; ia
Sections Nos. 1, 12, 13, 24 and 25, Townsilip 24 Worth, Range 102 Test; in Sectious
Kos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20, 22 and 24, Tomizhip
23 koruz, Renge 101 est; and in Sections los. 1, 2, 3, 10, 11 and 12, Township 23
Fortli, Pange 102 Hest. EXCEPTING TIEFEFNCH the following numbered Sz Clains:
679 throug'i 730; 829 through $50; 979 through 1030; 1129 thro:igh 1180; 1297 through
1337; 1430 through 1430; 1549 through loco; 1679 through 2730; 1797 through 1948;
1.765 through 2000; 2151 through 2168; 2283 through 2300; and 2319 through 2335,
located in Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 22 and 2, Township 23 Horth,
image 101 West; and in Section13 Nos. 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34 and 35,
To:123hip 24 Worth, Range 101 Vest, 6th P. K., Sweetwater Comty, "yozing.

Such assessiaent work is wit?. the authorization of Ralph Schauss and Eugene Stevens,

01.ners c. said claims, for the purpose of holding legal title to said claims.

1.4 X

ALU. VEC. CCUWTY CLSK

Cid in ay presence and sworn to before me by Ralp? Schauss this vi

day of

本

Mr. ATKISSON. I will ask you to look at the signature at the bottom and ask you if you recognize it.

[Witness examines document and counsel examines document.] Mr. ATKISSON. Do you recognize that affidavit? Mr. SCHAUSS. Yes.

Mr. ATKISSON. This time the people doing the work—who, by the way, are not Kerr-McGee, but are Poison Spider Mining Co. Is this another one of your entities?

Mr. SCHAUSS. Yes.
Mr. ATKISSON. It is a solely owned corporation?
Mr. SCHAUSS. Yes.
Mr. ATKISSON. Does it have a drilling rig?
Mr. SCHAUSS. It has prospecting equipment.

Mr. ATKISSON. Do these companies ever borrow from each other, that is, borrow equipment?

Mr. SCHAUSS. There is lots of borrowing, yes.

Mr. ATKISSON. It would not be hard for the management to get together, would it?

Mr. SCHAUSS. No.

Mr. ATKISSON. Once again, Mr. Schauss, you say that the entity in question—this time the Poison Spider Mining Co.-"has been engaged in, has started, or will start, and is projected to carry to completion the *"--and I want you to listen to this phrase“the required annual assessment work” on the claims.

Evidently when you executed this and all the other affidavits you had some notion that there was an annual assessment requirement. Is that correct; is that a fair statement?

Mr. SCHAUSS. I am still operating under what Judge Kerr said. If a man is working on his property---

Mr. ATKISSON. Did you have a notion that there was some sort of-I did not ask you what kind—but I said, did you have a notion that there was some sort of an annual assessment requirement?

Mr. SCHAUSS. Yes.
Mr. ATKISSON. All right.

This affidavit says that annual assessment requirement was going to be met, is being met, or will be met. Is that not what this affidavit says?

Mr. SCHAUSS. Yes.

Mr. ATKISSON. In this case, when was it met? Was it before September 5, 1974; shortly after September 5, 1974; yesterday; or when?

Mr. SCHAUSS. I would say that in 1975 that Fremont Energy Corp. took over much of this and a lot of this assessment work and was doing the assessment work.

Mr. ATKISSON. I understand that Fremont Energy took over these claims and later did assessment work. But my question to you is this: When was the annual assessment requirement, alluded to in this particular affidavit, met? When was that work completed? You do not know, do you?

Mr. SCHAUSS. It is continuous work.

Mr. ATKISSON. If it is continuous work, and if you do not mark it off for discrete annual periods, how can you swear under oath in an affidavit that an annual assessment requirement is being met? The law clearly says that you cannot even do that without having already done the work?

Mr. SCHAUSS. I was working on the claims.
Mr. ATKISSON. All right.

I will have the staff show you, Mr. Schauss, a fourth proof of labor.

Mr. Moss. Without objection, that will be inserted in the record at this point.

[The document referred to follows:

Seiore !2, tae subscriber, per 30.2211290:773:? w?0, seing duly 3:orn, says tirat asses3.::2:15 vor!: 02 th: Loving ni materited 10 rining chains has been civila for the current year o estern Exploration Company or has bez! 3'-:rted in part or is now 12 tiid wracajs of boi?; done b; srid Comin; 277 15 rrojcctzi to continue until such. Eine as ray be required to coupleto such work.

Sucks'jes.;want :* has beell or i3 vein; or will be performed at many places on the large nurser

Carral claims nereinafter ned.

This assessment work consists of rely tngu endi

kinds ci work or activities or expenditures, among which may be any of the iollowing: Trar?1 to, iron and on the claims by any ei-ployess, contract vorizers or geologists or other personal; radiometric surveys; redior.ətric rap preparation; surface su rays; sur ca merging; drilling operations; geologic exarsination of drill hole cuttings; assayina; :dentification of drill hole cuttings; drill hole corins; physic:l, Eeological, booriysical, radiometric, or other similar means of evaluating or ezmining drill hcle cuitangs; geological, geophysical, or oiler examination or surveying of surface forz?ticis; correlating surface or widerground formations by geological conparison or other

wis..; zater sampling and analytical work 0.7 iater sampling; parment of 12ges by chay 0: cizor things of value to contract workers or other workers; photographic work - black

:c! Site - Colorad inir2-ed, or any other type of filn ou outcrops, drill 2013 cuits izs, surface cxposuros, terrain features, geological requirements, and other desirable photography; resetting or replacing of posts, or any other rackers of any ki::d; zoological, Esopiysical, or drill hole, or any otier types of reports; rental or rapair oi ecpment, and other kindred expenditures; road construction; road repair; expenditures for supplies and equipment and/or related repairs; and any and all other reans that may heye 5227 or will be applied to such 19595522at 103k.

The claims to which 5:2 foregoing pertans are located in Seat:zter County, Wyoming, and are described as folloss:

K Claims nưunbemed consecutively, businzia with in. I and continuing through
n. 112; 3os. 114, 116, 113, 120, 122, 125, 126, 123, 134, 132, 1345 136,
135, 240, 142, 144, 145, 146, 153, 152, 154 and 156; 198. 157, 159, 161, 163,
2:55, 167, 167, 171 an 173; beginning with io. 175 cm nubered Casacubirei;
Birourth . 225; baimnino wiii .io. 272 end nur'e ei consecutively through
10. 315; kos, 317, 31, 321, 323, 325, 327,cd 329; beginning uitio. 331
cari..versi consecutively throu: :. 346; bejiza??? No. 367 !!dnored
cosecutively through 20. 355; os. 337, 359, 392, 293, 375 214 397; 5ozining
::t: %0. 402 nd 10.2) Coilsecutively 20, 1o. 4.3; ösoimins rith io. :35
27. Porod consecutir... 1,5; in 249.70.477 i ne borec
consecutival; thround 10: 150; lojining v.20 -0. 62.1 and 1.32red cols22attely
chro.!. 10. 635; Viniro. 557 citi uzorci consecuti 17 5:29:-
1:0. 6?!!; begin to. I w. sicursecuti: 1y trouch !ic. Fos;
inninc. 725.2 1.8i Co.13:0:11:20

40. 742; uiris
i . 762 cilari etüd Co.13.cuiva C... "0.73; colm; 13.
:::??r! concutirely ti. Ogi i.o. ?; :nir claims veic locate?
"os. 1, 1, 7, ü, 7, 13, 1, 15, 17, lö, ?, ??, ?, ?, ?5:02 39, To:3:17
7.1., 2:

:

27:41 ship 25 orih, 22169 102 past; in Sections 103. 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19,
22, 29, 30, 3- and 32, To:3.-17 24 orta, ??? ge 102 kest; in soctiskos. 5,

?n Poxiship 23 orth, 22:20 102 resi; in Secticas 03.. 1, 2, 11 sad

To:13:15 23 Yorin, 238132 103: est; 212 1. Section 1:03. 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, It, 23, 24, 25, 26 cná 35, To:118? 24 orü, 6C 103 kest; TIJ

un to following listed To Claim 1. 604, 6C), 63, 610, 512, 614, bió, 616, 620 and 677 ihrough 67!, inclusire. 2. Claims unserad consecutively, ginning with No. 1 zid coniinuing tiron 20. 1726; said claims being locatel :: Goctiois llos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 31, 32, 33, 34 270 35, Tomio 26 lorth, 299 kest; in secti013 os. 1, 12, 13, 24 and 25, Tovsisiip 25 Fortin, Range 100?'est; and in Sections 1:03. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 11, 14, 15, 1?, 13, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 snd 33, To:15hio 26 North, ?nge 28 est; EXCEPTING THE???CM the following listed Claims !!os. 432, 464, 46, 1,59, 490, 492, 494, 495, 535, 56, 590, 572, 594, 595, 593, 601, 602, 745 through 762, inclusive, 641 throuzh 65%, inclusive, 602 through 813, inclusive, Fól through 972, inclusive, 1121, 422, 2123, 1125, 1127, 129, 1131, 1133, 1135, 1231, 1334, 1336, 1336, 1346,-2342, 1344, 1345, 1349, 1493 through 1506, inclusive, 1599 and looo. DO 212ins numbered consecutively, beginning with Ho. I and continuinz through No. 12; beginning with '0. 31 and numbered co!lsecutively through :0. 35; 02ginning will io. 39 ac niberac cool3ecutively through No. 110; said clai.3 beint, located in Sections Nos. 30 2110 31, To:1391p 25 Horti, Range 97 test;: und in Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, '10 and 11, To:nship 24 Portl, Pange 95 esč.“ZIG Claims numbered consecutively, veginning with Ziz 10.1 and continuing üll'ough Zizo. 512; said coins being located in Sections No3. 1, 2 and 3, Tortiship 25 North, Eange 98 kest; in Sections Nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 29, 39 220 31, Toung!lip 26 North, Ranje 97 Hest; in Sections l'os. 13, 14, 15, 21, -22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 34 and 35, Tonship 26 lorth, pange 98 Prest; and in Suction No. 5, Township 25 Horth, Range 97 Vest.

Such assessment work is with the authorizatio:1 of Pollution Control & Engineering

Corporation, cwer of said clairs, for the purpose of holding leg?1 title to spiù claims.

Dated and signed this 22 day of August, 1973.

Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 2-2 day o. auguzi, 1973.

Loretta Balensuche