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Show 430 3988 over in Colorado; at least, that is the way it seems to me. I will be glad to hear what you want to say about it. Mr. Blackmar. My thought about it is this: That when you come to consider the question of navigation, you cannot consider it in its particular relation to any point on the river; you have to take the river as a whole. The Special Master. Now, the difference right here be-tween this case and some other cases, is this: If this was a case where the United States was claiming that it had power over this river because it was navigable water of the United States; that is, it would have to prove that it was an interstate water; in which case the conditions of the river in Colorado, of course, have a vital relevancy, in that it would have a bearing on whether any interstate commerce could it is so limited by the pleadings, one side setting up that this is a non- navigable rive in the State of Utah, and the other, the State, claiming that it is navigable in the State of Utah, and the State expressly admitting that it is not navigable as an interstate river, and the United States not settingup that it is navigable as an interstate river; so that, as I read these pleadings, there is no element of inter- |