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Show Record any power in it. The southern extremity of our work carried me to the mouth of Tenmile Canyon, being the south boundary of township 24 south, range 17 east, and carried me approximately six 2805 miles east of the river. The country is filled with washes, sandy, with rolling clay hills and rock outcroppings, and covered with small desert shrubs of no considerable height. I didn't observe any land under cultivation at Wolverton's ranch nor did I see the remains of any irrigation ditch or water well. I don't think he had any fence. There was a cabin at Wimmer's place and 2806 I don't think he had anything under cultivation. Mr. Miller was chief of our party. I always remained at camp on the west side of the river and did not cross back and forth from the west to the east side of the river. I located a ford across the river about a mile east of the mouth of the San Raphael and took our 2807 whole party across. it was not necessary to swim our stock. I would say that the depth of the river at this ford was about three feet in October, 1911. I saw two boats used by the Kolb brothers when they made their trip from Wyoming to the gulf and saw no other boats. The country on the west side of the river is typical desert, with bad lands, clay and shale. Ralph Gentry testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 2810 I have been with the government in the civil service since 1912, and am engaged in the execution of surveys of public lands. In 1909 I assisted in some government surveys on the San Juan 2811 River. I covered territory between a point nine or ton miles below and a point three or four miles above Mexican Hat. I was employed by the Chicago Exploration Company, which had the contract to make public land surveys. Our survey terminated at the San Juan River and we never had any occasion to cross the river. We worked on the right- hand side going down and had several camps, one of which was on the San Juan River at the foot of Honaker 371 |
