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Title No. 15, Original. In the Supreme Court of the United States. October Term, 1929. The United States of America, Plaintiff, v. The State of Utah, Defendant. Digest of Testimony taken before Charles Warren, Special Master. APPENDIX to Brief for the United States
Creator United States. Supreme Court; Warren, Charles
Subject Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- Utah; United States -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Utah -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Utah -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Utah -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Environmental aspects
Description Transcripts of the Colorado Riverbed Case
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1929
Type Text
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Language eng
Relation is part of Colorado Riverbed Case
Spatial Coverage Colorado; Utah; Mexico
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Title Reel 1 Volume 0.1-0.2 - Page 20
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OCR Text 17 14 The small boat had eight patches on it at the end of the trip. R. 57. He identifies Complainant's Exhibit No. 31, which " is the photograph of the fifth bad rapids that we came to in Cataract Canyon." R. 58. He is not certain that this is what Major Powell called No. 5 Rapids, but it is the fifth bad rapids that the Expedition came to. It is the same rapids shown in Complainant's Exhibits No. 26 and No. 9. R. 58. " The Witness: We were approaching Rapids No. 5, and when we came to No. 4 - I call it No. 4 now; whether actually it is the Government's No. 4 I do not know. It is the fourth bad rapids. We came to our No. 4, and decided that we could run through this fourth one, but realized that it would not be safe to run through the fifth. But we took a chance and launched our boats through No. 4. They got so filled up with water going through No. 4 that one of the boats could not get to shore between No. 4 and No. 5; at high water the rapids run together; the tail end of one almost runs into the next one. One of our boats was unable to get to shore at No. 5 and was swept through that rapids. The other two boats made the shore safely. The boat that was swept through did get through, one of the large boats; it got through the rapids with a large hole in it which we had to repair. " By Mr. Blackmar: That is Exhibit No. 31." R. 58- 59. He identifies Complainant's Exhibits No. 32 and No. 33, photographs which indicate the character of the river going
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