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Show 10 on them. It is now all known as the Colorado River. The controversy also includes the San Juan River, which rises over here ( indicating on map) in the mountains of New Mexico; and our controversy starts here ( indicating), at the mouth of Chinike Creek, where the river flows in a westerly direction and joins up with the Colorado River at this point here ( indicating on map). The mileage on the San Juan river is about 130 miles, about 120 miles from here ( indicating) to the mouth of the Green River; about 200 miles from here ( indicating) down to the Arizona line. In every case that has been passed on by the Supreme Court of the United Stated where the question of navigability was involved, the evidence necessarily runs into historical matters. And I think that I can say without any contradiction upon this point, that every river in the United States which has ever been declared navigable by the Supreme Court of the United States has some history of navigation. As far as the rivers are concerned, there is no history of navigation at any time. These rivers were inhabited many, many years ago by the cliff dwellers; and the stiff dwellers, as shown by the relics which are left, were a race who possessed some civilization. 1971 |