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Show Record would set it back with the proposed height of the dam when the reservoir was full, or as full as they intended to keep it. 3728 Hugh D. Miser testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: I live at Washington, D. C. I am a geologist with the 3729 United States Geological Survey. I am a graduate of the University of Arkansas, 1912. I have followed my profession continuously since. Most of the time I have been employed by the United States Geological Survey. As one of my official duties I made an examination of certain portions of the San Juan River in Utah from July 18, 1921, to October 3, 1921. I prepared water supply paper No. 538 entitled " The San Juan Canyon", by Hugh D. Miser, Government Printing office, Washington, 1924. And in addition to that various other reports 3730 have been prepared describing that particular region, but all the essential features, ad far as I recall, that might affect the naviga-bility of the San Juan are set forth in the water supply paper. When I started out on the trip the boats were landed at a locality about four miles below Bluff and the actual survey, under Mr. Trimble's direction, was begun there. I was attached to me expedition as a geologist. My duties were to examine the geologic structure and oil possibilities of the region traversed and to make 3731 a study of any dam sites under consideration. At that particular time no sites were being considered on the San Juan. The only site under consideration at that time was the Glen Canyon Site on the Colorado. However I felt it essential to examine all possible favor- Able sites on the San Juan so that the information would be available at some future time. 3732 The boats were launched at a fairly steep place in the bank. They were let down gradually into the water. The water there was 3733 only a foot or two deep. The first place that we had any difficulty with a rise in the water was at " The Narrows". We had no difficulty going down the portion of the river between Chinle Creek and the Narrows. The boats |