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Show 320 ( second-feet secondfeet ) and five days 185 when the stream flow ranged from 428 to 499 ( second-feet secondfeet ) ; in September , 1928 , there was one day when the stream flow was 395 ( second-feet secondfeet ) and nine days when the stream flow ranged from 400 to 472 ( second- second ) feet . On all other days throughout the aggregate period of four and a half years during which the gauging station has been maintained the minimum daily stream flow ( was 'was was ) in ( ex- ex ) cess of 500 ( second-feet secondfeet ) . Aside from the 48 days to which we have referred , supra , there have been only 97 days throughout the entire period whenthe minimum daily stream flow of the San Juan River at Bluff was not in excess of 700 ( second-feet secondfeet ) . During more than ( two-thirds twothirds ) of that entire period the mean monthly flow of the San Juan River was in excess of 1400 ( second-feet secondfeet ) . ( ( Complainant's Complainants ) Exhibit No . 96 . ) We note the statement appearing at the bottom of page 83 of ( Complainant's Complainants ) brief that the mean depth at the gauging station near Bluff ( "varies varies ) from less than one foot when the discharge is about 300 ( second-feet secondfeet ) or less to between 10 and 11 feet with flood flows of 20,000 ( second-feet secondfeet ) , " In view of the fact that there have been only four days during all of the years that the Bluff gauging station has been maintained when the discharge of the stream was ( not riot ) in excess of 300 ( second-feet secondfeet ) and only eight other days when its discharge was not in excess of 400 ( second-feet secondfeet ) , it does not seem to us that the above quoted statement can be of any real aid to the Court in arriving at the actual facts . On page 65 of the brief , Complainant states : ( "As As ) shown on Plate 4 , Exhibit ( 82-A 82A ) , the velocity in the ( thread -thread thread ) of the ( current" current ) is 2 miles an hour at the ( "low-water lowwater ) ( stage" stage ) at the gauging station near Bluff . In view of the fact that there ( were -were were ) only 142 days out of the entire four and ( one-half onehalf ) years during which gauging records have been taken at that station when the minimum daily stream flow did not exceed 700 ( second-feet secondfeet ) , we may safely assume that 700 ( second-feet secondfeet ) is a ( "low-water lowwater ) stage . " If a stream flowing 700 ( second-feet secondfeet ) of water were 700 feet wide and one foot deep from shore to shore , its rate of speed would , of course , be one foot per second . If such a stream were 2331 3 feet wide and traveled at a rate of speed slightly in excess of 2 miles per hour it would be one foot deep from shore to shore . Obviously a stream could not have such uniform depth unless it were flowing in a ( flume nume ) or other artificial channel . Traversing the country in its natural state , one would reasonably expect |