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Show Record Green River. That country is a rather high plateau, dissected by 1341 streams. It is a country of sand rocks or sandstones and shales. On the top, and even on the west side, there are certain areas where wild grass will grow and cattle could graze on this wild grass between the two rivers, the Green and the Colorado. As you approach a point about 25 miles above the confluence of the two rivers, the country suddenly breaks off, drops a thousand feet in elevation, and you have a barren area which continues clear down 1342 to the confluence. In there there are horse trails, and some trails which have been sided by man so they can get the cattle from the river up onto the high ground. Complainant's Exhibit No. 145, being a volume of 33 photographs taken along the Colorado, Green and San Juan Rivers and 1343 adjacent areas which are contiguous to one of those streams, taken 1345 from 1921 through 1926 at various times, together with statement describing the location of each photograph, was received in evidence 1347 In that pie- shaped section between the Colorado and the Green River, there are no roads south of the D. & R. G. Railroad and none contemplated at the present. In that country immediately adjacent to the Colorado River and on the same side as Moab, there are no roads leading 1348 south along the river. On the east of the river no roads approach The river closer than 10 to 15 miles. I have never been on the San Juan River in a boat. I have traveled in a boat from Moab to the head of Cataract Canyon. I have been in a boat on the Green River from the mouth to what I shall term mile- post 34. Parts of the same course I have been over several times. I have been below Moab on the Colorado River in a 1349 boat five times. I used one boat twice, the second boat once and took the Moab Garage boat, the large freight boat, on two occasions. My first trip down the Colorado from Moab was in September, 1921, in a row boat. I went down to mile- post 40, a - 177- |
