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Show 694 dry again, but I didn't see that; but is was very low." R. 1669. ( Testimony ordered stricken out. R. Vol. 9 pp. 1669). She believes that during the low water the channel wasn't over three or four feet wide and not over a foot deep; she doesn't think it was as much as fourteen inches deep, and the time it was completely dry and this low stage, was the lowest she has over seen the San Juan river. R. 1670. When it was dry, it was absolutely dry, just saw it extremely low, the only place there was any water was right in the middle of the stream, the river bed, and it was three or four feet wide and the only other water in the river bed was perhaps a few little pools standing around. R. 1671. These low stages of the river were in 1902 and 1903. The time she saw the river very low, about a foot deep in the channel, was above Farmington, New Mexico, not below. She knows that down below Farmington, the Animus flows into the San Juan, also the La Plats and the Mancos. The Animus is the biggest tributary of the San Juan that she knows of, and when she was there, there wasn't a lot of water taken out for irrigation at and above Farmington on the San Juan river. R. 1773. They used the Animus River for irrigation up there, but very little water was taken out of the San Juan River, " BY MR. FARNSWORTH: " Q. Wasn't there a lot of water taken out of Pine creek and Fiedro? |
