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Show 874 about any occurrence; and he had no reason to fix dates in his mind. He was about thirty years old when he went in there. He recalls that it was the first year he went in, 1904, when he saw the dry condition of the river. R. 2062 " Q. And if other witnesses had fixed the years, the dry year on the San Juan, as the year 1902, that would also did you come in fixing the date you went in there, wouldn't it?" " A. No." R. 2063. The Henry R. Worthington pumps he had in there were four inch intake and two and one- half inch discharge; one at the bottom of the river, and one on top of the bench. He had another six inch pump that he never used. He would judge that when he had all of the water in the San Juan River diverted over to the pumps that it would take ten per cent of the water so diverted. R. 2034. He knows the intake and the discharge of the pump, but doesn't know the capacity in inches, as at times there would be quite a little water come through; but at other times when the packing in the pump was cut out by the sand, the discharge would be very much diminished. The diversion dam he built to divert the San Juan River to his pump would be about eight or ten inches high; and at that time there was only one channel in the river that had water in it; it wasn't spread out in different channels. He had all the water diverted to his intake. he dug a basin right where the intake of the pump was; and it was not a difficult job to divert the stream. R. 2065. |