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Show 4042 Zahn- D 2062 CROSS EXAMINATION BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Mr. Zahn, when you went into the San Juan country you didn't have in mind that you would later be called upon to detail the exact date of anything about the occurrence, I guess? A No. Q Had no reason to fix dates in your mind? A No. Q How old were you when you made your first trip into the San Juan? A it has been twenty- five years ago -- about twenty- five years ago. Q Can't you fix it by the age you were at that time? A Must have been about thirty, I guess. Q As you recall, you were a man about thirty years old when you went in there? A Yes. Q It was the year you went in, or the next year after you went in, that you saw this dry condition of the river? The next year after, wasn't it? A It was the first year. Q The first year you went in? A 1904? Q Whether it was 1904, or whatever year it was, it was the first year you went in? |