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Show Record and our pack animals there met us, having crossed the river farther upstream. I never saw any member of our party cross the Colorado River on horseback or affect. Between Moab and Lockhart Canyon there are two patches of bottom land subject to cultivation, one about a mile below Mill Creek, containing approximately one 2781 hundred acres; and another of similar size a little farther down. No one is living on either of these tracts. On the rim the land is a flat mesa, broken through by numerous box canyons, and I know of no houses or inhabitants there. There were a few cows on both sides of the river and the vegetation was very little differ-ent from that on the San Juan River. Robert C. Yundt testified on cross examination as follows: 2782 In 1927 we went out through Lockhart Basin and down into the Indian Creek country, where we did some surveying. That work 2783 was quite a ways back from the river. When we left the river in 1936 I went to Salt Lake City, some of my party continuing to work with other survey parties. We took the boat across the river and worked our subdivisional lines from there up to No. 2 Well on 2784 the west side of the river. In order to do that work we were com-pelled to cross the river as we did and pick up our survey and carry it up the river as we did. When we reached No. 2 Well I left the party and went from there up the river in a small boat. 2784 It was a small Moab Garage Company boat that was sent down to get me. The rest of the party who were remaining on the job continued 2785 and assisted in the survey there. The sand bar difficulties I encountered on the river were at low water, principally in the year 1926, and in the years 1927 and 1928 I did not have very 2786 much trouble with sand bars. During the period in 1926 when I had difficulty with sand bars, the Moab Garage Company was operat-ing its boats, including the big barge, on the Colorado River. In doing our survey work we crossed the river back and forth; would land quite frequently; at times we would hug the shore to get down a little lower to some desirable point; we would only use the main |
