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Show 770 " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. Just one question along the line I questioned you before. " Was this Bluff dam site -- did it contemplate dev-elopment of any power project? " A. It was not given consideration at that time." R. 1843. Cross Examination: ( R. Vol. 10, pp. 1844- 1845.) " BY MR. FARNSWORTH: " Q. When you speak of irrigable land below the dam site, you mean below the site of the dam itself? " A. Yes. " Q. If this dam should have been built, the water backed up for forty miles -- would you say it would be? " A. Approximately. " Q. For forty mils, there would be a considerable acreage that would be adjacent to the forty- mile strip or that would be accessible from that forty- mile strip, to water? " A. For irrigation? " Q. Isn't that true? " A. I believe not, although you widen out into a valley and bluff there, the sides of the San Juan valley are precipitous, and you would really submerge with the dam site all the irrigable area in that vicinity, and I don't believe the surrounding country could be developed for irrigation by pumping, and it is poor soil. " Q. In other words, there is no way of getting the |