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Show 6717 4706 a river not be navigable simply because there didn't happen to be a terminus at the when we were considering the MR. BLACKMAR: That would have to be con-sidered in the light of the facts and circumstances surround-ing the particular river. As to this river, the location there known as Gunnison Crossing, which is Greenriver, has been the natural and the logical crossing of that river since the days of Escalante. THE SPECIAL MASTER: There has been not a town there since the days of Escalante. MR. BLACKMAR: No, but it was a location upon the river to which a large amount of traffic came in both from the east and the west. Now, my thought about the situation which your Honor suggests, had the river been susceptible of navigation, in seeking routs for trade and travel to the western country they would have used the river and followed it on down to the Virgin. THE SPECIAL MASTER: I am not expressing any opinion, and of course I am not attempting to argus. I simply want to get an actual present terminus for commerce, or a potential |