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Show Record 4173 high up on the streams, as Turley intended it, the levels would permit them getting down to the Indian reservation land, but there are a great many obstacles in the meantime that would have to be overcome in reaching them. In connection with the irrigation of the Navajo lands in Utah, I would think that the dam would have to be down somewhere near the location of the lands, the southeast corner of Utah. The lands that we are irrigating are in the northwest corner of New Mexico, and they come right up to the Utah line. Counsel for complainant stipulate with counsel for defendant 4176 that if Lieutenant Leeds were called as a witness, he would testify that he had his party in making the survey of 1910, made no investigation and had no personal knowledge of conditions below the head of the cataracts, and that their investigation was limited to those portions of the rivers from Greenriver, Utah, down to the mouth and thence to the head of the cataracts and thence up the Grand or Colorado River to Moab. Counsel for complainant further stipulate with counsel for the defendant that no survey shall be made of the river beds and that they will proceed upon the assumption that the allegations of the bill and the admissions of the answer are correct in that the bed of the river means high water mark, and that the limits of high water are clearly marked upon the ground and readily dis- cernable. 598 1/ 2 1718 |