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Show Record Otto J. Zahn testified on cross examination as follows: 2062 I have had no reason to fix dates when I visited the San Juan country. I was about thirty years old when I made my first trip into that county. The occasion when the river became so dry was the first year I went in there. Whether that year was 1904 or not, the occasion when the river became so low was my 2063 first trip. If I was thirty years old at that time the year when 2064 the river became dry was 1902. We used our two four- inch pumps during that dry spell, and although I diverted all the water to my pumps they did not take all of it or half or it, but a mere guess 2065 would be that they took ten per cent of the water. I can't give the amount of water that was pumped by the two pumps in second feet. The diversion dam I built was probably about eight or ten 2066 inches high. The necessity of thus diverting the flow of the 2067 river existed for ten days. I could pretty near carry on my back 2068 the supplies that we needed. Generally when going to our camp we took what little food we needed with us. Otto J. Zahn testified on redirect examination as follows: 2071 The ditch dug by me when I diverted the entire flow of the river was ten inches or maybe a foot deep and just like an ordinary 2072 irrigating ditch. We recorded our placer mining locations and at that time the country was open for mining locations. Otto J. Zahn testified on recross examination as follows: 2072- 2073 I and my family still retain an interest in placer mining claims located down there on the San Juan River. Hector M. Zahn testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 2074 I am 51 years old, am engaged in the real estate business in Los Angeles, and in May, 1902, went to the San Juan country for 2075 the Zahn and Baldwell Mining Company. My brother Otto J. Zahn was not there that year. I went overland from Flagstaff, Arizona, to our placer claims on the San Juan River, located about two miles 269 |