No. 15, Original. In the Supreme Court of the United States. October Term, 1929. The United States of America, Plaintiff, v. The State of Utah, Defendant. Digest of Testimony taken before Charles Warren, Special Master. APPENDIX to Brief for the United States

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49 -- 46-- plain from the river. Other people would be better qualified than I am answer that." R. 114. He does not know whether there are several thousand acres of land around Greenriver that is readily susceptible to raising crops. He does not know anything about the canyon of the Green River below Greenriver, or whether there are acres of land there that would unquestionably prove fertile if supplied with water. R. 119- 119a. Over at Moab he suspects that the land there is quite fertile in a small way. " Q Well, is that a suspicion, or is it because of investigations that you made before announced the conclusions expressed in this report? " A Well, it is the result of the investigation; not that I was studying the soil, but I was studying the rocks for oil possibilities. In the region of Moab, there is a flood plain and that land was built up out of the flood plain. As you go farther up from Moab, up the river, you will find gravel and debris; that has been washed down from the mountains, and I would not say that that is good soil. Right down near the river there is a flood plain which has been deposited, which leads me to say that that is pretty good land. " Q You know, do you not, even from your observations, that there are many thousands of acres in Moab Valley not now under irrigation or raising any crops, that would readily produce bounteous crops if supplied with water? " A ( Witness shakes his head.) It is opinion that that is not true; that there are not thousands of acres