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Show 231 GUY S. HEWKIRK For complainant ( R. Vol. 4 - pp. 580- 591) He is a, civil engineer, age 43, resides in Denver, Colorado. He graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Colorado in 1912, and has followed his profession since that time. He was in the San Juan river country in Utah in 1923 surveying prospecting permits for the Midwest Oil Refining Company from the middle of March until about the first of September. Worked from Shiprock down to below Clay Hill, which is a little below the south of Moonlight Creek. Surveyed a strip of country between those points about ten miles on each side on the San Juan River. There were four to five men in the survey party. R. 580- 581. From Shiprock to Mexican Hat an automobile was used as a means of transportation while from Mexican Hat west, middle horses were used. The party never used a boat on the river, even for crossing. The river was forded either on horseback or afoot when it was necessary to run the survey line back and forth across the river. The river was forded below bluff at about the mouth of Chinle Creek, above Bluff, and somewhere near the mouth of Moonlight Creek. For about a week or ten days the river was crossed back and forth every day at the mouth of Chinle Creek, on horseback as the water was from one to two feet deep; no trouble was encountered with quicksand in crossing. |