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Show 765 RAYMOND M. PRIEST For complainant ( R. Vol. 10, pp. 1832- 1845) He is forty- six years old, resides at Yuma, Arizona, and by profession is a civil engineer. He received his training at the University of Arizona and has been actively engaged in his profession for about twenty- six years, mostly in investigations and surveys, with some construction work. At the present time he is employed by the United States Government, in the Bureau of Reclamation. He is familiar with the San Juan River from Arboles, New Mexico, located about forty or fifty miles above Farmington, New Mexico, to a point about twenty- five miles below Bluff, Utah. R. 1832- 1833. In 1914 he made an investigation for the Bureau of Reclamation, of dam sites and reservoirs, under N. P. Conway, who was chief of party. The other members of this surveying party were a lad named Dahl, and Porter Merrill. The purpose of the work was to make topographic surveys of dam and reservoir sites. R. 1834. He started at Farmington, New Mexico, and took a bus to Shiprock, New Mexico, where he rented a saddle horse and started down the San Juan River. He arrived at Bluff two or three days later and from there went on down to the Gooseneck, located in the vicinity of Mexican Hat, on the San Juan River. He was seeking dam sites to be surveyed by the party. He found a desirable dam site at the so- called Gooseneck, |