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Show Record 2645 I am in charge of the Public Survey office, Department of 2648 the Interior in Salt Lake City, Utah. Instructions given to our department are printed, and the document entitled " Manual of Instructions for Survey of the Public Lands of the Unites States" is an official document containing directions with reference to the manner of making surveys. 2649 Sections 226 to 233, relating to the subject of meandering, were offered in evidence and road into the record, said sections being set forth at length on pages 2650 to 2559, inclusive, of the record. I have charge of all the public land surveying operations in Utah and Nevada, including field and office work. I crossed the Colorado River near Moab in 1915 and in 1917 we operated just west of the Colorado River and north of the Utah- Arizona line, carrying our work I imagine twelve miles north of 2661 the line. That is very rough, broken country, with sparse vegeta-tion and fit only for grazing. Although there are some few little ranches, very little of the country is put to agricultural use. There are no permanent residents in there east of Paria, and the country is used for winter grazing sheep. I rode on horseback from one of our camps to the shore of the river and 2662 back. I rode horseback ten or fifteen miles to a point just above the mouth of Warm Creek, remaining there not more than an hour or two. Our party was in that section six or eight months, receiving 2663 their supplies overland. In 1920 I was on the Green River for probably a week, traveling from the town of Green River, Utah, upstream about forty miles to McPherson's ranch when one of our parties was operating on the east side of the river. Possibly six or eight miles of the country along that stretch on the west side of the river is an agricultural country; and on the east side of the river it was an agricultural country, but they have sort of abandoned the project there, and I saw evidences of its 2664 having been once irrigated. There was an abandoned pumping plant |