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Show 4677 Kirkpatrick- D 2691 BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Do you understand the question, Mr. Witness? A Not exactly, no. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Maybe we can get at it this way. From the standpoint of an engineer, when you some to a river such as the Colorado, San Juan, or the Green, why does it become desirable to meander that instead of running your line straight across? A Our survey instructions describe just what bodies of water shall not be meandered, and what shall not be meandered, and we follow those. Q In other words, you meander the stream because the instructions say so? A That is it, exactly. MR. BLACKMAR: That is all. FURTHER EXAMINATION BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Just one question. Do I understand you to say that you tie your meander monument into the public surveys of land? A The meander monuments, meander corners monuments, are part of the public land survey system; the section lines are monumented where they cross moanderable bodies of water by means of what we term meander corners. |