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Show 943 ROBERT N. ALLEN For Complainant ( R. Vol. 12, pp. 2233- 2254) He resides at 3655 Fredonia Drive, Hollywood, California; is a civil engineer, having graduated with a B. S. degree from the California Tech of Pasadena, California, after having completed grammar school and high school in Los Angeles. At the present time he is employed by the Department of Water and Power for the city of Los Angeles. He was formerly connected with the United States Geological Survey on a survey of the San Juan River in the year 1921, under the direction of Mr. Trimble. Mr. [ Hugh D.] Miser was the geologist with the party until they reached the San Juan and Colorado Rivers. The purpose of the survey party was to map the San Juan below elevation thirty- nine hundred. R. 2234. The party started on the river on July 18th, 1921, at a point about three miles below Bluff, Utah. To the point where the boats were launched the equipment had been trucked in from Greenriver or Thompson; they were able to go on the road up to this location on the river, which is towards Mexican Hat; that is as far as they were able to go with the load; " there we shoved the boats into the water." He reached the point where the boats were to be launched on the San Juan River by walking and riding in a Ford " we used as we were carrying the map." The line of elevation was carried from Moab, Utah. R. 2235. At the time the boats were launched, the river was moderately high, being just after the customary spring floods |