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Show 235 FRANK H. HYDE For Complainant ( R. Vol. 4 - pp. 591- 663.) ( Note: Discussion by Counsel on effect of meandering of streams.) He resides at Salt Lake City, and is 60 years old. He is a farmer and stock raiser and has lived in the San Juan country practically all of his life. He went there at about the age of 10 with his parents from Juab County, Utah, travelling with an outfit of six wagons and possibly a hundred head of horses, via Excalante, Hole- in-the- Rock. They crossed the Colorado River and then on down the north side of the San Juan River to Bluff; then on up to Montezuma, about fifteen to seventeen miles above Bluff. There were about ten or eleven families there at that time and a fort was built, or what we called a fort, log cabins in a square, and established a farming settlement. R. 591- 593. His father built a store and traded with the Indians an he worked as far back as he can remember. At that time the river was confined to a permanent channel, willows and mulberry bushes growing on each side of the slopping banks. He can ride ponies across it most anywhere he came to it without fords. His father put a water wheel on the river and raised the water out by means of the wheel, for irrigation purposes. This was about fifteen miles above Bluff. After the country was settled, livestock tramped down the grass and the timber was cut off the headwaters and the |