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Show They say that when they ( 188 18-00 ) arrived at Bluff in the ( '80s 80s ) the San Juan River flowed in a confined , permanent channel between ( well-defined welldefined ) banks along which grew cottonwood trees , willows , etc . ; that over a period of years two or three floods came and finally the ( present presen't present ) widening of the channel outside the canyon was accomplished . Mr . Hyde testified that he had personal knowledge of the cutting of timber on the ( water-shed watershed ) of the San Juan and its tributaries and that this cutting , coupled with the destruction of underbrush , permitted a quick ( run-off runoff ) and was the cause of the floods which destroyed the old channel outside the canyon . This testimony is also corroborated , by the witness Loper who , as indicated in the abstract of hfs testimony hereinbefore given , says that when he was at Piute Farms in 1895 , the river channel was only three or four hundred feet wide ; whereas when he again saw the river at that place in 1921 , its channel was ( thirty-three thirtythree ) hundred feet wide . ( R . 2323 , Vol . 12 . ) STREAM FLOW OF THE RIVERS . As appears from the testimony of witnesses and as shown in ( Complainant's Complainants ) Exhibit No . 88 , the following gauging stations have been maintained within the State of Utah on the three rivers here under consideration to wit : , near Bluff on the San Juan River during the period from November , 1914 , to September , 1917 , and during the period from March , 1927 , to September , 1928 ; near Cisco on the Colorado River during the period from 1914 to 1917 and from 1923 to 1928 ; at Green River , Utah , on the Green River during the period from 1895 to 1897 and from 1905 to 1928 . Gauge records at other gauging stations outside Utah , ( includ includ- includ ) ¬ ing the station at Green River , Wyoming , and the stations at Shiprock and ( Farming-ton Farmington Farmington ) , New Mexico , were received in evidence , but , we submit , throw no very great light upon the question of stream flow at the sections of the river here in controversy . Below Green River , Wyoming , many streams flow into the Green ( Biver River ) ; and below Farmington and Shiprock , New Mexico , many streams , including the Mancos River and McElmo Creek , flow into the San Juan . As early as 1913 , 20,000 acres of land were irrigated ( from frorn ) McElmo Creek and 10,000 acres from the Mancos River ( ( Complain Complain- Complain ) ¬ ( ant's ants ) Exhibit ( No Mo ) . 58 , at page 121 ) . In Water Supply Paper 249 ( ( Complainant's Complainants ) Exhibit 66 ) after mentioning the Mancos |