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Show Record creek, which runs the year round; that stream was barely flowing a little water, maybe twenty or thirty second feet. I viewed the Animas River but made no recognizance on it. I did not investigate the San Juan below the dam site. Perhaps I gave the presence of silt in the river no scientific consideration except to take it into consideration and so report. There had been no tests for silt made at that time. I made no recognizance of possible irrigable lands above the dam site. The Bluff dam site was intended to be for the purpose of flood control. there is an 1843 irrigable area above the dam site. My information about irrigable land in the Navajo Reservation is all hearsay. I imagine I spent from four to five weeks in and about the San Juan River that year and never saw any boats on the river. Raymond M. Priest testified on cross examination as follows: 1844 With our contemplated reservoir, I don't believe the surrounding country could be developed for irrigation by pumping and there was no way of getting the water cut to lands lying 1845 north and south of the river. The project I was then working on was for the Federal government. T. G. Gerdine testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 1846 I am a topographic engineer, residing in Sacramento. 1847 I am 57 years old, have had thirty- six years experience in my profession, and am now and during the entire thirty- six year period have been employed by the government in the geological survey. My jurisdiction as division engineer of the topographic branch of the survey includes practically all of the states west of the Rocky Mountains, and I have supervised the survey work on 1848 the Colorado River. Those surveys were made in 1921 for the purpose 240 1357 |