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Show Record Valentine Woodbury testified on redirect examination as follows: 1831 As we came down the river we were not able to view it accurately and locate the deep water. At many places where it 1832 spread out there was apparently no deep water. Generally on a river I can tell by the riffles where a sand bar drops off and where the deep water below it lies by surface indications. On the Green and Colorado Rivers I could sometimes do this, but many times there was no indication. Raymond M. Priest testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 1833 I live in Arizona, am 46 years old, and by profession a civil engineer. My training and experience has been mostly in investigations and surveys, some with construction work. I am now with the United States Bureau of Reclamation and have traversed the San Juan River from Arboles, New Mexico, to a point 1834 twenty- five miles below Bluff during the year 1914. The purpose of that trip was to investigate reservoir and dam sites for the Bureau of Reclamation, N. B. Condway being chief of party, and a young man named Dahl and another named Porter Merrill being in the party. We made topographic surveys. I began at Farmington New Mexico, took a bus to Shiprock, New Mexico, where I rented a 1835 saddle horse, and started down the San Juan River, arriving at Bluff, Utah, some two or three days later. From there I went next day to Gooseneck in the vicinity of Mexican Hat on the San Juan River. At Gooseneck we found a very desirable dam site lo-cation and went back to Bluff and on to my party that was working on the Dolores River, I was not with my party all of the time, my duties being to seek reservoir and dam sites that were to be surveyed by the party. The dam site I referred to is that appearing on Exhibit 2 as the Bluff dam site. I located no other dam 1836 sites on that river. In going from Arboles down to Mexican Hat I was frequently in sight of the river, following the river |