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Show 193 river and they cover the period from 1880 when he first saw the river down to date. R. 453. " Q. Even at low water, practically all of the time at least during every day of every year of low water during the forty odd years you have been familiar with the river, the depth at this wash there at Chinle Creek would be two or three feet, wouldn't it? " A. Yes sir." R. 452, ( Objection R. 452.) He hasn't been there every year; just occasionally and for the last twenty three years he hasn't been on the river. For the twenty odd years before that he wasn't on the river every day but was where he could see it occasionally up and down. Sometimes the average depth of the San Juan River would be two or three feet. Sometimes it would be less and sometimes more. R. 453. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. From your general knowledge of the river in normal times wouldn't the depth be an average of two or three feet? " A. I think it would, where the river is confined together; but in other places it floods all over, may be half a mile wide, and it wouldn't be so deep there. But where you get the river together in its natural channel, I think it would average two or three feet deep; from one to three feet deep." R. 454. He is speaking of the low water season in giving the average of from one to three feet deep. R. 454. " Q. How, if the river by rip- rapping, or in any other method, could be confined to a narrow channel or a channel of the width it was when you first saw it, the depths would |