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Show 391 Q Did you see it,-- I mean, did you go down your self? A No, but I heard men tell it that was there. MR. FARNSWORTH: That was the very question I was going to ask, your Honor. Q Then your statement that the San Juan during those two years out of the fifty that you have been in that section -- that there were two years when the river was dry clear down to the Colorado, is based on what you have been told, and not what you know? A It has been what I know about the country, principally. Q Your conclusion from what you know about the country? A Yes sir. Q Isn't there at all times a considerable flow of water under the surface, under the San Juan, underground flow? A I couldn't tell that. Q Do you know whether the water, a considerable amount of water, flows underground for considerable distances and then comes to the surface again? A No sir -- well, it seeps along, will come in again as a stream, but practically no big stream I have ever seen or heard of. Q Aside from those two years -- the San Juan has been in other years substantially the same as it was during those two years that you saw those boat parties go down, has it? A Yes sir; some years it would be very much lower than others. Q But when those two parties went down, those particular years were not high water years? 2358 |