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Show I have mentioned when the river 49 became so dry was on my first trip . I was about 30 years old then and if that was my age at that time the river became dry in 1902 instead of 1904 . ( R . ( 20G2-4 20G24 ) , Vol . 11 . ) 1 am quite sure that my first trip in the ( Sati San ) Juan country was in May , 1904 . ( R . 2092 , ( Vol 1701 ) . 11 . ) Hector M . Zahn testified : I went to the San Juan in 1902 and my brother Otto J . Zahn was not there that year . ( R . 2074-5 , Vol . 11 . ) When I arrived in June the river was pretty high but gradually went down until the latter part of July when it dried up completely and remained dry for about five weeks . ( R . 2077 , Vol . 1.1- ) ( I 1 ) was again at the river in ( November Noveniber ) , 1902 , and remained until February , 1903 . It was very low in ( February-about Februaryabout ) 40 or 50 feet wide and 2 feet deep and froze up in January . I again returned to the river in 1915 . ( R . 2078 , Vol . 11 . ) While I was down there I saw sand waves during high water that were 4 feet high . At other times I saw them a foot or two high . None of our supplies came by boat and I saw no boats used . ( R . 2079 , Vol . 11 . ) During the period when the river went dry I made a trip with a ( 4-horse 4horse ) team about 20 miles down the bed . ( R . 2082 , Vol . 11 . ) ( When Vften ) I went there in 1902 the houses used by us were already there and showed no signs of having been previously flooded . They were in good ( con- con ) dition and then had the appearance of being old structures . I suppose they had been built there by some of the former owners . ( R . 2086-8 , Vol . 11 . ) ( I 1 ) wish to change my answer that those buildings appeared to be old when I first saw them ; they appeared new ; I ( don't dont ) know how old they were but they were in good condition . ( R . 2089 , Vol . 11 . ) Kenneth Sawyer testified : For a number of years I was with the U . S . Reclamation Service and in 1914 with the government ( party paity ) in charge of John * F . Richardson and ( en- en ) gaged in making a survey for reservoir and dam sites on the Green and Colorado Rivers . ( R . 2093-5 , Vol . 11 . ) ( Machin Machin- Machin ) ery consisting of boiler , engine , casings , tools , drill rods , etc . , was loaded on to boats at ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) ranch on the Green River and ( taken -taken taken ) thence down the river to the dam site at the junction of the Green and Colorado . There were two scows approximately 6 by 24 feet each , which were decked over and fastened side by side making practically one boat . ( R . 2094-6 , Vol . 11 . ) We had three row boats , two small motor boats , and ( Mr Mir ) . ( Wimmer's Wimmers ) boat the Marguerite . The trip ( down- down ) |