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Show Adams- D 423 A Yes sir. MR. FARNWORTH: We submit this witness ought to tell it. MR. BLACKMAR: I just want to speed the thing along. SPECIAL MASTER: This is just shortening up in general. MR. BLACKMAR: If you want to go into all the details of it I would be glad to do so. Q No irrigated farms in that district, are there? A No sir. Q Are you familiar with the San Juan river? A Yes sir, quite familiar. Q Beg pardon? A I am quite familiar with it, have been all along the banks of it from one end of it to the other, from Bluff to where it goes into the Colorado. Q On both sides? A No. Q On which side of the river? A On the north side. Q Do you know the character of the river bed it self? A Yes sir. Q Just tell us what the character of that river bed is. A West of Bluff? Q Yes sir. A Well, right at Bluff, there, the river bed is very sandy, quick- sandy; of course there is some places there is gravel across the bed, and that is where they do their fording, when they 2397 |