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Show Hyde- C 650 smooth mountainside, where it used to be a forest with underbrush and pins, thistles and burs that would hold the water back when it came. Q Over what area have the forests been out to which you have just been referring? A Well, It is a very large area in there; it is a distance there of fifty miles of the head drainage of the San Juan drainage, fifty miles long by I don't know how many miles wide; it is a hard thing to judge, because the canyon timbers have been out out, as well as the flat timbers, the big yellow pines and blackjacks covering the flats at the base of the mountains all through that country clean over to the Dolores, between there and Mancos. Mancos is a drain of the San Juan drainboards. There were great forests in there for miles. The saw mills took it all, cleaned it up on the advent of the D. & R. G. railroad in there a few years after we went in. Q You saw those forests before they were out? A I saw a great many of them before they were out, yes sir. Q You have seen them after the cutting? A I saw the place where they had been. THE SPECIAL MASTER: Did he state since when the cutting has been going on? BY MR. FARREWORTH: Q Can you state the period during which that cutting has progressed? A When I first went in there the first saw mills had come in and 2618 |
