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Show 1108 the other boys measured it around there; they claimed it was twenty six feet." He couldn't judge the around of the rise, " I know it raised an awful lot; our pumps were set up quite a ways; we had to get them out of there at eleven or twelve at night to get them away from the flood so they wouldn't be washed down. " Next day there was cows and sheep dead, and timber that came down the river. We snaked out a lot of it to use for firewood." R. 2611. He identified Complainant's Exhibit No. 417 as being a photograph " of wagons waiting to be crossed across the Grand river at the ferry; our freight wagons came in there; they hauled stuff in from Flagstaff; that is where they were waiting in line to get pulled across." R. 2611. " MR. BLACKMAR: Those three exhibits, [ Nos. 415, 416, 417] are offered in evidence." R. 2611. The machinery [ at Lees Ferry] was on the west or right side of the river going down stream. R. 2611- 2612. " Q Did you also maintain a ferry while you were there? " A Yes sir; Mr. Johnson ran it. But we built a new boat there, because we lost a team of horses and a man drowned there and lost a wagon and the boat was lost, the ferry boat, and they built a larger one; the company built it, with our men, right there at the ferry. " Q this ferry is strung on a cable? " A yes sir." R. 2612. |