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Show 145 6332 4323 They are all three large rivers. The San Juan went dry one year for a very short time, but never since the white man has known either one of those rivers has there been a time, except that one brief period of a few days on the San Juan, when either of these streams were not readily and manifestly susceptible of use as a highway for travel and trade. I may say, as we view the case and the law, the fact that portions of the areas in question are wild, un-inhabited sections, undeveloped, little use for them at the present time, even up to the present time in navigation -- that is, comparatively little use, -- we do not think that has any pertinency. Some good- natured smiling has been indulged with reference to the resources of the southwestern section of the state. Our evidence will disclose that although it is at the present time an undeveloped section, comparatively speak-ing, that its potentialities are great. Eighty years ago, when the people first came into a barren desert. I think that in the light of the evidence that will be introduced here relative to known resources, |