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Show 6173 615 Reed - R D 4173 would permit them getting down there ( indicating) but there are a great many obstruction in the meantime that you would have to overcome in reaching them. Q What obstructions? A Well, you are meeting with arroys, and not hog backs, but obstructions that would have to be tunneled, land uprisings, and you are passing in the meantime some immense washes, and the elevation to which Turley contemplated in his project, you would have structural difficulties in many places. Now, I have not looked at his report in several years, and I am not in a position to go into details about it. I did look over the New Mexico Engineer's a few years ago, but all of this now is more or less hazy in my mind, but I know that at the time of study I characterized as rather dreams, at least, to the extent that they contemplated. Q And in connection with any irrigation of the Navajo land in Utah, where, in your opinion, would the sam sire be? A Oh, I could not say that. Q well, would it be above or below the " Four Corners"? A It would be more or less of a guess, without a study of the contours, but I think that you would have to have the dam down somewhere near the location of your lands if you are |