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Show Record Albert I. Anderson testified on cross examination as follows: 5247 I was last in the Green River country about seven years ago and don't think I have been down in Elaterite Basin since 1911. I didn't homestead a place down on the Green River, but it was my intention to do so when I went there ( to Townsite Bottom). I remained there part of two or three seasons and abandoned it. 5248 I just had tents there and planted some stuff. Albert I. Anderson testified on redirect examination as follows: I planted sugar cane and within sixty days it grew ten feet eight inches high; when it was pretty well up I put in a stake and measured it and it grew three inches a day. Everything you planted there was wonderful and had excellent flavor. I raised onions, lettuce, turnips and carrots. Those bottoms were 5249 withdrawn from entry by the government about 1912. Before then I had abandoned the place but would have gone back if anything turned up. However, I couldn't stay down there alone and my sons didn't wish to remain down there. William Cooley testified for defendant on direct examina-tion as follows: I am 72 years old and live in Castle Valley, Utah. I knew a man by the name of Branson who was engaged in the sawmill busi- 5250 ness and worked for him several years. I was working for him when he cut timber on Castle Creek and also when he was cutting timber on Fisher point. He commenced cutting on Castle Creek I think in Sept, 1897, and left there in May, 1898. In October, 1897, and again in November of that year I helped Branson down the Colorado River with a raft of lumber. I think possibly a raft 5252 went down the river before that. I know that during the period they were cutting on Castle Creek other lumber than that rafted |