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Show 3276 Dent- 1301 THE SPECIAL MASTER: Yes. That is merely a difference of language, but when I speak of navigability at the time of admission to the Union. I mean legal navigability. That includes all the elements you are speaking of. MR. FARNSWORTH: There right have been several tight dams across at the time of statehood, but have been a navigable river in its natural condition -- THE SPECIAL MASTER: With that understanding of my purpose in asking these questions -- Q Are you familiar with the Snake river? A No sir. Q You said, I think, that the gradient -- in answer to a question which Mr. Blackmar put to you, to which Mr. Farnsworth objected -- he asked you the question, assuming a gradient, I think, of five feet to the mile - A No, he asked me, your Honor, whether streams of gradient similar to the Colorado were navigable. Q You had already stated the gradient as being five feet to the mile, had you not? A No sir; the gradient of the Colorado is around one feet per mile in that section from Moab to the junction. Q That was my mistake. One foot per mile. Now, would your opinion on that question be at all affected if the Supreme Court had held, or had held with respect to the Snake river at the border line between Oregon |