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Show 247 side of it, a sand bar filled in up to eighteen inches deep on our lower paddles; quit us entirely. That is common in that shifting sand, if that is the idea you want. " Q. Did the river at that point ever get back where you had built this crib? " A. Yes. We went to work then, we boxed in the inside of the wheel, tried to make a dry wheel out of it and run it by burro and sank a well there to lift the water, or draw the water; it didn't work very good; we had a lot of trouble; in a week or ten days went out one morning there and the water was gone; came from the other side over to this side ( indicating); that is a common occurrence in there." R. 627- 68 The rock crib he built is still there. He would say that Bluff fields that are farmed, there, are probably fifty rods wide by a mile an one- half long when he left and when they first settled in Bluff he would say it was a mile wide by two and a half miles long and when he left the difference had already gone down the river. When he left the country three years ago he doesn't know of any land that was irrigated nor cultivated between Bluff and the Colorado River. In the country west of Bluff some wheres there were lots of cattle and lots of feed and they would go through alright and the next year there wouldn't be half as many cattle and half of them would die. R. 628- 629. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. Mr. Witness, you are very familiar with this country in there. Is it possible to irrigate the lands such as are capable of irrigation when irrigated, in and around Bluff, |