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Show 6171 4171 A Well, I am supposed to be. Q Well, pardon me for asking that question, then. I understood your duties were not in that connection. I with-drew that remark. Mr. Blackmar. He is the Chief Engineer of the Irrigation of Indian lands. The Special Master. I did not understand that he said Irrigation. I thought it was the Indian Service. By Mr. Farnsworth: Q As far as slope is concerned, accesibility, a storage project on the San Juan River or its tributaries in New Mexico, anywhere in the region on the Four Corners there, water could readily be applied to the Indian reservation lands there, could it not? A Just using the matter of levels, as to a control, of course, that is feasible, but so many, I would say, unsound engineering principles enter into this that I would not con-sider the control project as it was submitted by Mr. Turley, and as it has been submitted since by the State Engineer of New Mexico, as a feasible project. Now, that something might come out of there is quite probable. Q Quite probable, yes. |