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Show 43 -- 40-- ARTHUR A. BAKER For Complainant ( R. Vol. 1, pp. 105- 128) He is a geologist, United States Geological Survey. Resides in Washington, D. C. Graduated at Yale University as mining engineer; passed two years in the graduate department of Yale University, specializing in geology. Since 1921, he has been in the United States Geological Survey as a geologist. In the summers of 1926, 1927 and 1928, he conducted field examinations in or adjacent to the Colorado River and the San Juan River, and was personally on the ground for from five to six months of each of those years. R. 105. Complainant's Exhibit No. 55 is a report upon the conditions out there, and is the result of his own observations. R. 105- 106. He has mapped in detail the territory east of the Colorado River, from Castle Creek to slightly below the junction of the Green and Colorado Rivers, or roughly about 1000 square miles in that area. Subsequently, there was an area mapped from the 110th meridian west, beyond the junction of the Colorado and the San Juan River, and the Arizona- Utah line, embracing between 800 and 1000 square miles in that area. R. 107. The Colorado River from Moab to the junction " is a plateau country, bisected by Colorado Canyon and its tributary canyons, small tributary canyons; and between each of the canyons there would be the Flat Topped Divides or Kesas. There is vegetation on the top of the mesas, and in |