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Show Record Robert C. Yundt testified for complainant on direct ex-amination as follows: 2761 For the past four years I have been in and around Blanding, Utah, and since 1922 have been employed as a surveyor with 2762 the U. S. Land Office. In 1923 I made a survey in and about Hite, Utah, of about two sections of land, my survey not being made of regular subdivisions but of odd parts of those sections on the north side of the river, which at that point would be on the right hand side going down. Thomas Humphreys, Jr., was then living on the ranch at Hite, having approximately forty acres under cultivation. About twelve acres was hay land and the re-mainder was plowed land; he also had a few fruit trees, grape 2763 and berry vines. He had a half mile ditch line from Trachyte Creek to his land. Mr. Bird was in charge of another government survey party in that vicinity, there being seven men in each of the two parties. We came to the river overland down Trachyte Canyon from Richfield. I think Mr. Humphreys had most of the land subject to irrigation in and around Hite under cultivation. 2764 The land I surveyed was sandy country, with a good deal of exposed sand rock and small ledges, but no large ledges. I was there three or four weeks and I think it was in the fall of the 2765 year 1925. Humphreys had a small boat at Hite. I saw no boats going up or down the river. There is a rapid just below the mouth of Trachyte Canyon known as Trachyte Rapid. I was on another survey in the neighborhood of Hall's Creek, but that survey didn't touch the river and stopped, I imagine, a mile or so north of the canyon rim. We there surveyed about two- thirds of a town-ship. The land in Hall Creek had a rather gentle slope, but on both sides there was barren sand rock. Part of the land along Hall's Creek was subject to cultivation, and Mr. Baker, the owner, was then cultivating about five acres; he intended to cultivate more, but I don't know how much. Baker was the only person living |