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Show 3226 Dent- D 1251 the army report, are you? Have you arrived at a conclusion about that yet? MR. BLACKMAR: Not yet? THE SPECIAL MASTER: As I understand, that army survey of 1909 has not been put in yet. MR. BLACKMAR: It is in evidence as part of Mr. Hoyt's testimony. THE SPECIAL MASTER: Mr. Hoyt's drawings of the comparison with the 1909 survey are in, subject to your proving the survey. If you do not prove the survey, Mr. Hoyt's comparisons go out. MR. BLACKMAR: We expect to put on somebody in connection with the War Department, to prove those are official records and part of the records of the War Department. THE SPECIAL MASTER: Well, any statement by the Colonel as to comparisons he made with the War Department survey in 1909 will go in subject to the same conditions. I do not think he can compare other maps unless we have those maps that show A At the time of my inspection the river was impinging on the point between Salaratus wash, which enters the river just above that riffle, and the river proper. That point was caving off as witnessed by the fact that a number of trees had been undermined and were falling, or had fallen into the |
