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Show 3 11 ( tiaularly ticularly ) described in ( subdivision subdi'vi'sioll subdivisioll ) 2 of ( tlio the ) Bill , oil ( tlie the ) ( sections seetions ) of the San Juan , ( Green Gvreen ) , and Colorado ( Elvers Rivers ) set forth in the bill ; ( that t1lat ) the lands have not been surveyed but the beds of the rivers are plainly traceable by the water ( marks inarks ) ; that said rivers throughout their courses travel a barren , desolate , broken ( country cowitry ) ; except at a few isolated places the riparian ( lands laiids ) are so high above the canyon streams ( as -is is ) to preclude access to man or beast to the streams ; that the region is uninhabited and substantially uninhabitable ; that the region ( lias has ) not produced and does not produce commodities for water ( trans- trans ) portation ; that the country is not susceptible of sustaining a population ( served servecl ) by water ; that the rivers carry large quantities of silt and sand ; that the volume of water is variable ; the flow rapid ; the channels filled with fixed and shifting boulders producing rapids ; the channels filled with shifting sand and gravel bars ; that ( sand saiid ) waves are found on the San Juan ; that the Colorado , Green , and San Juan Rivers in Utah are not and have never been navigable in fact ; that neither trade nor travel can move over ( tlie the ) portions of ( tke the ) rivers in Utah , in their natural conditions ; that they are not used and have not been used as ( permanent pern-lanent pernlanent ) highways of useful ( commerce comiiierce ) within the State , between States , or with any foreign State ; that the Green River enters the State through a ( roek-walled roekwalled rock-walled rockwalled ) , practically inaccessible ( mountain inountain ) gorge ; that the Colorado enters the State through an open canyon and passes |