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Show Record ( The special Master called attention to the fact that it is eighteen miles from No. 1. Well to Moab.) Your statement that from the time we left in the morning until we threw out our first line in the afternoon we had traveled only two or three miles is 3383 not correct. I say it was approximately sixteen miles from Moab to a point where we were first held up; I may have missed it two or three miles. My best judgment is that it was sixteen miles. Notwithstanding the delays which I have described we made the trip from that point sixteen miles below Moab to Moab by seven 3384 o'clock that night. I took this trip about December 19. When we arrived it was just getting dark. I do not know that in December it is dark more than an hour before seven o'clock. G. D. D. Kirkpatrick testified on recross examination as follows: 3386 Defendant's Exhibits 11 Plaintiff's Exhibit 472 were prepared under my direction from official records of the Public Survey Office, the notes and plats of which have not been finally 3387 prepared and accepted by the Land Office. The plats of those that have been accepted are on file in the local land office. The field notes of the unaccepted surveys are no file in that office and the plats will be prepared this winter and transferred to the General Land office for acceptance. The unaccepted meanderings are also on file and are very bulky, being kept in small books, of 3389 which there are a great number. I cannot indicated which of our meanderings referred on to Exhibit 11 are now official meanderings. It may take me there or four hours to be able to indicate them. There are no other meanderings on either of these rivers, either official or unofficial, that are not shown on Defendant's Exhibit 11 and Plaintiff's Exhibit 472. The Geological Survey did not meander the rivers according to the system in my department. Their map is a topographic map of the rivers, but my understanding is that they made no attempt to fix the meander line except to show the contours, which of course would be both above and below the |