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Show 178 He was able to tell from appearances that it had been many many years before his arrival but he couldn't even make a guess as to the number of years. At the place where he saw some big trees where there might, at some early date, have been a different channel, it would be nearly half a mile from the river and there was more than one place but whether this occurrence during one excessively high flood before the white man got there he couldn't say, as the channel was fixed and definite when he arrived and had definite banks and lined with old trees and old willow patches. R. 401- 402. The first flood changed it some but not for any considerable distance and when the flood subsided it resumed its old channel in most places or practically entirely. R. 402. When the second flood came along the position of the river changed while the flood was on and at most places it did not go back to its original position. He believes that this was about 1898 and to the best of his knowledge there was a stable fixed channel with no substantial change from the time he first saw it until about 1898. R. 403- 404. Redirect Examination - ( R. Vol. 3. pp. 404- 407.) Most of the land he speaks about that is suitable for development for grain and other agricultural purposes lies east of a line drawn through Blanding. There may be small patches of country west but the greatest part of it is east and north of Blanding and most of the inhabitants of the county live east of Blanding. He has crossed the Colorado River at six places; at Little Grand Valley, where Moab is, Dandy Crossing, Halls Crossing. Dandy Crossing is at the mouth of White Canyon and Halls Crossing is about twenty five or thirty miles below Hole- in- |
