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Show Record the foot of cataract Canyon to the Utah- Arizona line except where I deliberately left what I knew to be the channel of the river. I never saw any boat of any other member of the party stuck on any sand bar while it was in the channel of the river. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master Mr. Trasker testified as follows: 5450 In navigated the boat myself on the Colorado river from the foot of Cataract Canyon downstream. On our trip from the town of Green River there were three of us in the boat; we took turns rowing and steering, but from the foot of Cataract Canyon down to the Utah- Arizona line I myself directed my boat but Mr. Chenoe-with told me where to come and go and what position to take. I ran part of the cataracts in Cataract Canyon with my boat. Henry C. Tasker testified on cross examination that while He had his camp down the Green River he at times brought supplies overland by pack outfit. Horace W. Sheley testified for defendant on direct examina-tion as follows: I live in the Uinta basin and in Salt Lake City and am 5452 Federal court water commissioner of the Uinta basin. Long before going to the Uinta basin, where I have lived for the past two years, I worked in the Colorado River basin. 5452- 5453 In addition to the areas colored yellow or green on com-plainant's Exhibits Nos. 505 and 506, there are about one thousand acres of land for which there is an available gravity flow of water from Mill Creek, a tributory of the Colorado River, and another four thousand acres susceptible of being irrigated by available water from Mill Creek if and when a suitable reservoir is there constructed. The water would reach this five thousand 5454 acres of land by gravity flow and the soil is very fertile. So far as climate is concerned the growing season is very long in that valley a and fruits and vegetables mature much more quickly than at 831 |