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Show Record swam to the edge of the river and we were killing them with sticks. I have never the fish in that condition at any other time on the San Juan River. Louis M. Chaffin, recalled for further examination, testified in response to questions propounded by the Special Master as follows: 3360 I testified that I went down the San Juan River in 1896 from a point forty or fifty miles above its mouth. I came down the river from Cottonwood or what they call Gable Camp. We 3361 reached the river through a canyon. After we went down I don't recall noticing more than a few places where we could got out on the north side. In going down the river, we prospected to its 3362 mouth, and from time to time landed on the bank. Of course we noted the depth of water, but as to what would be an average of the depth all the way through or just the shallowest or deepest place, I would only say that there were a lot of places where the water was not more than a foot deep, and some places where it was not that deep in the channel. I didn't measure it and only tested it with my oars. We probably went through places where there would be less than a foot of water, but we got through all right. We procured our boat at Cottonwood from some fellows who were 3363 camped there prospecting. It was a small scow made something the shape of a table with the ends turned up in front and behind. Maybe it was fifteen feet long and three feet wide. 3365- 3369 A discussion occurs relative to be admissibility in evidence of exhibits 419 to 459, inclusive, being the field notes of the surveyors who made surveys on various pieces of land in and about the Colorado River basin. Elliott Bird testifies for complainant on direct examination as follows: 3370 I live at Springville, Utah, and am a surveyor of the U. S. Land Office. I have been on a survey party from the Paria River 466 |