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Show 3250 Dent- C 1275 I assume an army engineer will testify to the facts as he sees them. MR. FARNSWORTH: I don't think there is going to be any attempt in the course of my cross examination to -- THE SPECIAL MASTER: I think Mr. Farnsworth is perfectly within his rights. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Now, Colonel Dent, with the matters in mind to which you have just referred in your examination, you did endeavor in your journeys over these rivers to investigate, observe and make a note of impediments to navigation, conditions that might tend to prove the difficulties that one would encounter in navigating the rivers, and all such conditions as sand bars and rapids and shallow water and shifting channels and all of those other things that might embarrass one in navigating this stream; isn't that true? A Only in so far as such impediments might show the limit of practical navigation under the existing conditions. Q Then you can answer my question yes, that you did. THE SPECIAL MASTER: I think he has answered the question. He says yes, only so far as, and so on. I think that question is answered. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Now, on your trip from North wash down, who was in your party? A Mr. Archie D. Ryan and Mr. Bert Loper, who was the boat man |