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Show PHYSICAL CHASACTEBISTICS APPENDIX OF THE ( BIVERS RIVERS ) Locations at which the rivers are accessible The region does not permit free travel by ( auto auto- auto ) mobile , horseback , or on foot . ( Baker , Compl . Exh . 55 , p . 4 . ) Testimony as noted hereafter , however , of many ( old-timers oldtimers ) , explorers , prospectors , engineers , geologists , and others shows that there are certain fairly ( well-defined welldefined ) routes over which considerable travel has occurred and that in connection with exploration work there were few localities that could not be reached either on horseback or on foot . ( M . R . p . 115 . ) The Master concludes that the inaccessibility of the Green and Colorado Rivers from the high plateau ( M . R . pp . 117 , 152 ) is in favor of navigability . The ( Master's Masters ) conclusions can not be correct , for , if true , all of the small western rivers upon which it was ( pos- pos ) sible to float a boat would become navigable streams . The ( Master's Masters ) reasoning would apply with equal force to Cataract Canyon and the San Juan River , both of which the Master has found to be nonnavigable . As to the future developments which the Master ( M . R . p . 117 ) concludes might call in play river ( transporta transporta- transporta ) ¬ tion , suffice it to say that the Midwest Oil Company promptly surveyed a road to their holdings , against the day when an oil field would be developed , and Stanton , in order to move his ice , ( electric-light electriclight ) plant , ( OS ) |