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Show 6176 618 4176 rate, you can call the witness and make any proper correction. I want you to stipulate, upon my statement that it is a fact, that Lieutenant Leeds, if called as a witness in this case, could testify that he and his party, in making the survey of 1910, investigated no portion of the Colorado River below the confluence. I think probably the report sufficient-ly shows that. I think the Resolution of Congress sufficien-ly shows that the portion was limited to the Green River -- from Greenriver down to the mouth, and thence up the Grand to Moab. But I want to know if you will accept my statement? Mr Blackmar. That he did not go -- ? Mr. Farnsworth. That he and his party made no investi-gation and had no knowledge, personal knowledge, of conditions below the confluence; that is, below the haed of the cataracts. I will put it that way. I think he did one day go down and look at the first rapid, or something of that king. Mr. Blackmar. There is no objection to that. Mr. Collins. Except that he did not make a survey. Mr. Farnsworth. No, just as I put it. Mr. Hoyt. The survey was in 1909. Mr. Farnsworth. Yes, the survey was in 1909, I think, |
