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Show Record shore line pretty close. We worked from side to side. We made very frequent landings. 3957 Alvah T. Fowler testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: I live in Washington. I am a topographic engineer. I have been connected with the Geological Survey since 1901. I am 3958 a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Thayer School of Engineering. I have had experience on the Colorado River. I was on the survey for the Yuma Project and on the profile survey of the river in 1921, covering Glen Canyon from Lees Ferry up to about mile post 51. The purpose of the work was marking a plan and profile survey of the river and mapping the area that would be flooded by the proposed dam near Lees Ferry. I had nine men in my party most of the time. 3959 The survey work was done with one boat, and later two. They were flat bottom skiffs, about 16 feet long. And there was a flat bottom, like a scow, about 24 feet long and 4 or 5 feet wide, and a height of 3 feet or more, which was operated by Mars. The boat was not at Lees Ferry when I arrived there. I arrived the early part of July and that boat did not get there until the early part of August. We started to work up stream the 4th of July. We 3960 used a row boat equipped with an Evinrude motor, operated by Jerry Johnson. We did not move camp from Lees Ferry until after the large boat arrived. We then moved to about 11 miles up the stream, and after we completed at point moved to a point 17 miles above 3961 Lees Ferry. We did the moving with the small boat. The motor on the small boat had been working badly for some days previous, and we attempted to make the move, the motor broke down entirely, so we towed the boat up stream. From mile 17 we moved back to Lees Ferry, rowing down with the small boat with all our equipment. After I got back to Lees Ferry I went out on the mesa 3962 land that would be flooded by the dam and went down Warm Creek to |