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Show 137 Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.: hydraulic engineer. Q What is your age, Mr. Hoyt? A 43. Q Just tell the Court, please, what has been the scope of your training, education, and other qualifications? A Since graduation from Vornell University in 1909, following the four- year course, which gave me the degree of civil engineer, I have been with the Geological Survey continuously since that time. Prior to that, in the summers of 1904, 1905, 1906, and 1907, I had been on lake and river surveys. In 1909, 1910, 1911, and 1912, assistant engineer with the Geological Survey in the Albany Office, on stream measurement work, stream flow work. From 1912 to 1921, district engineer, United States Geological Survey, in charge of the Upper Mississippi District, on river and stream flow work, river characteristics, in the States of Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. From 1921 to date, consulting engineering with the Conservation Branch of the Geological Survey, on river and general hydraulic work in the Northwest-- Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Practically all of my experience since 1909 has been relative to rivers. Q Mr. Hoyt, will you mention some of the principal rivers that in the course of your experience you have been on or 2098 |