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Show 551 other one was absolutely dangerous, the hillsides being covered with ice at the time. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q Inaccessible to the river? " A Or to the country going from Moab into the country down the river. We were trying to get down to this structure, to start operations; we had a very short time in which to do it, due to the fact we had contracts requiring us to start on a certain date. " Picture No. 2 is taken from this notch, and looks down on the Colorado river, and on the many square miles of Bad Lands on both sides of the river." The notch he means is the notch he referred to in the first place; " the old trail, I have called it." R. 1343- 1344. Photograph No. 6 is a picture of the country dropping off one thousand feet, and this lower land extends clear to the junction [ of the Green and Colo-rado Rivers]. R. 1345. There are no roads south of the Denver & Rio Grand railroad in the pie- shaped section between the Colorado and Green Rivers and at the present time he knows of no proposed roads in that section. R. 1347. There are no roads south, adjacent to the Colorado River from and on the same side as Moab. " No roads approached the river closer than ten to fifteen miles, |