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Show Record the Uintah country but my direct testimony with reference to the character of land in the vicinity of Flaming Gorge was confined to Sheep Creek and probably two miles below Sheep Creek and up 2700 as far as the Flaming Gorge dam site. I may have testified that my trip to the mouth of Nokai was in November, 1926, but I believe it was in March or April of that year. When I made that trip our party was camped back from the river and at a point 2701 from which one couldn't see the San Juan River. On the other trips the camp of our party was back from the river; they were surveying land adjacent to the river and their headquarters were at the camp. On the occasion when I crossed the San Juan River at the mouth of Nokai and observed that it was approximately six hundred feet wide and varied from a few inches to a foot 2702 deep, I was concentrating on the matter of depth. The water " probably came two- thirds of the way up" my horse's legs. It may have been a mile I was riding, but it was a medium sized horse or mule, weighing probably eight or nine hundred or a thousand pounds. I should judge its legs were thirty inches long. Its for legs were twenty- four inches maybe. As I crossed the river I looked down to see where the water was reaching on my 2703 animal. As I forded through the channels of that stream I saw the water come up more than two- thirds up the legs of the animal I was riding. It came up to the horse's belly. I couldn't say whether the depth of the water was up to the horse's belly in several places and I wouldn't say that the water was that deep in several of the channels. I remember one channel when the horse sank in the mud and the water came up to his belly; the 2705 water was only about six inches deep. The water was up to the horse's belly when he was partly in mud and partly in water, and in giving my testimony I mean that the horse sank in the sand and mud so that the water would come up to his belly. The stream was 2706 not clear and I couldn't see the bottom anywhere. I don't know that the mud began six inches below the surface of the water on |