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Show 772 THOMAS G. GERDINE For Complainant ( R. Vol. 10, pp. 1846- 1892) He resides at Sacramento, California, is fifty-seven years of age, by profession a topographic engineer with the United States Geographical Survey, and has been employed by the United States Government for practically thirty- six years. His title is Division Engineer and his headquarters are at Sacramento, California. The territory that he covers consists of practically all the states west of the Rocky Mountains. He had charge of the survey parties, making a survey on the Colorado River. R. 1846- 1847. These surveys were made in 1921, and primarily were to determine the extent and capacity of a reservoir above a proposed dam site, located about five miles above Lees Ferry, Arizona, in Glen Canyon of the Colorado River. This survey was made with the knowledge that there might be a dam eight hundred feet high at that place, the data collected being for that height of dam, and the work done in cooperation with the Southern California Edison Electric Company. He wasn't on this particular work throughout the west, and he tried to visit all of them during the field season. He first entered the Colorado River Country in July, 1921. R. 1848. He went from Flagstaff, Arizona, across the Painted |