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Show Butt- C 559 A 1879. Q It is your recollection, then, that you had your first flood two or three years after you arrived in Bluff? A After we had located there and grubbed the soil and raised several crops, yes sir. Q Did you have very much of a flood that year? A Well, I don't know what you call much of a flood; it covered all the land knee- deep to a horse. Q When was it you moved away from Bluff? A I moves away in 1902. Q Was there a big flood just before you moved away? A Yes, there was; that's the reason I moved away, to the Blue mountains. Q That is what I understood your direct testimony. A Yes sir. Q When you moved away from there it was because you had decided that the flood conditions were such that it was not desirable for you to stay there longer? A Exactly; that is that I moved away for. Q You moved away in 1902? A I think so. Q Moved to Verdure? A Yes sir, to Verdure, San Juan county, Utah. Q Was that flood that occurred just before you moved away, or next before you moved away, was that the biggest flood you saw down there? A Yes sir, it covered more land, I guess; I think it was the 2525 |