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Show 385 " Q. How many square miles in there? " A. Approximately on that work two hundred and fifty square miles; the work is wider in places and narrower in other places. Q. What kind of country is that that you covered? A. The country we covered on this trip is a very arid country, and a very rough country. There are a great many canyons there, and water is exceedingly scarce, except the mater in the Colorado River, but you can't always reach the water in the Colorado River, although you any be very close, you may be three hundred feet above it. " Q. Are there any people living in there? " A. During the time we did that survey work we had one airplane flying over us; they were scouting down the river. Word had leaked out that we were working down the river; they were scouting down the river, and finally came in from Monticello to get ahead of us on the southern and of this work down the river. " Outside of that party, our party saw, during two months and a half down the river, two cowboys, that was all. " R. 991- 993 He is not positive whether the airplane mentioned landed near Monticello but the occupants came in from Monticello down Indian Creek and Lockhart Canyon on foot or horseback. |