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Show Record is at the present time a comparatively undeveloped section, its potentialities are great. Eighty- two years ago the whole State of Utah was a barren desert. It would be a very venturesome man who would predict that in a few years from now that section might not be a very highly developed section of the country, containing many 4324 vast resources. There is mineralization in a great many sections of that country. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of land that will, as soon as the land becomes more scarce in other sections of the country, be tilled and raise crops. Certain sections of that country are ideal for dry farming purposes. Certain other vast areas be brought under water, and unquestionably will be some day. The country represents one of the last of America's frontiers. One hundred years is only a short time in the life of the nation, as the Supreme Court has said. So if we look at that country as it undoubtedly will be at some day in the future, the trade and commerce that might move over those rivers may be very substantial. That there has not been any great commerce on those streams as compared with the commerce of other streams in old communities, is of no importance. A stream is navigable where it is being navigated, or is susceptible of use as a highway for trade of travel. K. D. Williams testified for defendant on direct examination as follows: 4327 I reside at Bluff, Utah. I have resided there for two years. I am merchant. In 1924 I was working for the United States General Land Office surveying, in connection with sectionizing the lands adjacent to the San Juan River, and meandering the San Juan River 4328 bed. We sectionized on both sides of the San Juan River the south side to the Arizona line, and on the north side too to six miles back. I joined the survey party on Moon Light Creek. that year we went down to a point within six miles of the mouth of the |