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Show Record channel, extended nearly a half mile from the river. I could not tell how many places there were but there was more than one place where we saw evidence of large trees having been lodged, away from 402 where the channel was then. Whether or not that occurred during some excessively high flood before the white man got there, I cannot tell. The channel was fixed and definite when I arrived and there were lined on each side old trees, and old willow patches, and the river had definite banks, and the channel was confined in the origi-nal position of the river as I saw it when I first went there; and that condition continued until the first flood changed it some by running over the old channel in some places, and after the flood subsided, the channel almost entirely resumed its position in the old channel. The position of the river changed during the second 403 flood. After the flood was over it did not come back in most places. The time when the channel changed in any substantial degree was dur-ing the flood that occurred in 1898. That was the second flood. It is my recollection that there was a stable, fixed channel, with no substantial change from the time I first saw the river and for a long time before that, until 1898. Kumen Jones testified for complainant on redirect examination as follows: 404 The land that I spoke of as suitable to development for grain and other agricultural purposes lies mostly East of a line drawn through Blanding. There may be some small patches of country West of Blanding but the greater part of it is East and North of Blanding. Most of the inhabitants of that country live East of Blanding. I have crossed the Colorado River at six different places: Little Grand Valley, where Moab is now; Dandy Crossing, at the mouth of White Canyon; Hyde Crossing; Hall's Crossing, Hole- In- The- Rock 405 and Lees Ferry. I did not take any cattle across at those places. I swum horses across a good many times. I never had to drive any cattle. There was cattle taken across. |
