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Show always tell ; for many times 529 , , tbexe was ( 'no no ) . ( indica- indica ) ( -tion tion ) . ( R . 1831-1832 . ) . ( EAYMOND RAYMOND ) ( M X ) . ( PBIEST PRIEST ) For Complainant ( ( Record Ilecord ) , vol . 10 , pp . ( 1831 183' ) -1845 ) He is ( forty-six fortysix ) years old , resides at Yuma , ( Ari- Ari ) zona , and by profession is a civil ( engineer engmieer ) . ( He- He ) received his training at the University of Arizona . and has been actively engaged in ( Ms his ) profession ( for for- for ) about ( twenty-six twentysix twenty-sLx twentysLx ) years , mostly in investigations and surveys , with some construction work . At the ( pres-- pres ) ent time he is employed by the United States ( Gov- Gov ) ernment in the Bureau of Reclamation . He is familiar with the San Juan River from Arboles , New Mexico , located about forty or fifty miles above Farmington , ( Hew Xew ) Mexico , to a point about ( twenty-five twentyfive ) miles below Bluff , Utah . ( R . . ( 1832-1833 183.9,1833 ) . ) In 1914 ( lie he ) made an investigation for the Bureau of Reclamation of dam sites and reservoirs , ( under under- under ) N . P . Conway who was chief of party . The other members of this surveying party were a lad named Dahl and Porter Merrill . The purpose of the work was to make topographic surveys of dam and ( reser reser- reser ) voir sites . ( R . 1834 . ) He started at Farmington New Mexico and ( took toolxl- toolxl ) , , a bus to ( Sliiprock Shiprock ) New ( Mexico Ife-s-lico Ifeslico ) where he rented a , , saddle horse and started down the San Juan River . He arrived at ( Bluff Bluff- Bluff ) two or three days later and ( 33307-31-VOL 3330731VOL ) . 1-34 |