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Show 175 was no water running at Bluff in the river. One occasion was twenty or twenty five years ago and the other occasion was more recent. These were the only two occasions when he has ever known of such occurrence in his fifty years residence in the vicinity; forty years of which was spent right on the river. R. 390. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. Do you know whether it was dry then below Chinle creek? " A. Yes sir, it was dry all the way. " Q. Did you see it, -- I mean, did you go down your self? " A. No, but I heard men tell it that was there. " MR. FARNSWORTH. That was the very question I was going to ask, your Honor. " Q. Then your statement that the San Juan during those two years out of the fifty that you have been in that section-- that there were two years when the river was dry clear down to the Colorado, is based on what you have been told, and not what you know? " A. It has been what I know about the country, principally. " Q. Your conclusion from what you know about the country. " A. Yes sir." R. 390- 391. He doesn't know whether at times there is considerable flow of water under the surface; the under- ground flow. It will seep along and come in again as a stream " but practically no big stream I have ever seen or heard of." R. 391. Some years the river is much lower than others but when the two parties went down they were very dry years. R. 391- 392 |