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Show 996 river in the middle of that two miles. There is where Hite and Gibbons had their little farm, but their cabin was a mile up the bar." R. 2360. There was cultivated and irrigated land on both sides of Trachyte Creek, there being probably twenty acres under cultivation. The fields were on a bar on the side of the river. There were willows along the river but no trees. " The walls of the canyon on the right hand side was pushed back away from the river itself at that particular place, but the wall on the left hand bank was approximately quite close; just a talus slope down to the river." Photograph 199 of Complainant's Exhibit No. 11 D, is identified by him as Hite as he saw it. R. 2361. The photograph was take in 1915 but represents Hite as it was in 1907, 1908 and succeeding years, and as it is today. " Of course, it is abandoned now." It shows Trachyte Creek and Trachyte Rapids. After making the trip just described, he then went up to Red Canyon. Red Canyon is quite a long bottom, but the placer ground at Red Canyon was on a high bar, 195 feet above the river. On the lower bar or bottom land there was a little ranch of about seven to nine acres under cultivation where horse feed, fruit and grapes were raised. There was a chicken yard, wagon, mower, and things like that. Picture 200 of Complainant's Exhibit No. 11 D represents the ranch, shows cottonwood trees and cabin to the right of the cottonwoods. R. 2362. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. I suppose that is all irrigable from the river, isn't it? |
