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Show Record 2798 About April or May, 1927, I was out in the San Juan River probably thirty yards from the bank, and at that time the water was fairly close to my waist. Howard W. Miller testified for complainant on direct ex-amination as follows: 2799 I am employed in the execution of public land surveys for the U. S. General Land Office and have been employed on such surveys 2800 ever since quitting school in 1907. I was on the Colorado River from August until November, 1910, working from a point two miles below Westwater to Dewey, Utah. I was also in there from April until June, 1911. We did not use a boat for any purpose. I crossed the river at Westwater. We forded the river at Cisco 2801 pumping plant; at Anderson's ranch; at Dewey we forded and also ferried across the river. Where we forded the river it was not necessary to swim our stock. From a point two miles below Westwater to a point a short distance east of the Cisco pumping plant the Colorado River runs through a gorge and in many places there is swift water and rapids. Below the section that I have just referred to the river flows through a hilly country and is not 2802 quite as swift and I never noticed any rapids. In our work of sub-dividing the public lands and meandering the Colorado River through the sections I have indicated, it was not feasible to use a boat because from the location of our camps we would probably lose more time than we would save by using a boat and then walking to work. The Dolores River is muddy, carrying considerable silt, 2803 but it flowed continuously all the time I was in that region. In 1911 and part of 1912 I was on the Green River at a point twenty-five miles south of the town of Green River near the Wimmer and Wolverton ranches. Our party had camps on the east and on the 2804 west side of the river in that section. We obtained our supplies overland from the town of Green River. I think Mr. Wolverton then had an ordinary row boat and I didn't notice whether he had 370 |
