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Show Record horseback or on foot it based upon the fact that the cliffs are 124 very nearly impassable. Each of those streams flows in a canyon bounded by sandstone cliffs that can be passed only at certain places and it is many miles at some points between trails that would permit you to descend those canyons. I would not say that these points referred to by me as inaccessible to automobiles, on horseback or to foot passengers would be reached by boat because the people in that country are not using boats; they own ranches 125 and are running cattle. I did not go to the oil wells in an automobile because it would have been a very arduous task to get to the various points that we wanted to go and we went by boat because we could see the things we wished to see along the river. You could get to various points on horseback but you cannot follow things successively right on down the river on horseback. Arthur A. Baker testified in response to interrogatories by the Special Master as follow: 127 The land below Moab was surveyed in 1926, 1927, 1928 and was still in progress in 1929. In Moab Valley the first surveys 128 were made back in 1886. All surveys to the south have been made within the last twelve years or something like that. The following exhibits were offered in evidence by com-plainant: Exhibit No. 56, a document entitled " Water Supply Paper No. 539, the San Juan Canyon, Southeastern Utah," by Hugh G. Miser; Exhibit No. 57, a document entitled " Contributions to Economic Geology, 1923 and 1924," by Miser. 129 ( Subject to defendant's right to object to portions of these documents that are irrelevant, no objection was made by de-fendant to their being received in evidence.) Exhibit No. 58, a document entitled " Water Supply Paper 395," by E. C. LaRue; Exhibit No. 59, being Water Supply Paper No. 400, entitled |