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Show Record Complainant's Exhibits 477, 478 and 479, being photographs, were received in evidence. Lester A. Shaw testified on re- cross examination as follows: At the time the drill was swept away and we lost the casing, the trouble was occasioned by the high water, accompanied by heavy debris collecting against the cables and barges which anchored the drill, and the weight was so terrific that they finally 3674 gave way. The debris collected against the barges and the cables. And it was just a matter of when enough wood and other debris collected to make the load heavy enough so something had to give. 3675 John F. Richardson testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: I live at Huntington, West Virginia. I am a civil engineer. I graduated Tulane University in 1897. I am in the engineering de-partment of the War Department. I have done special work in connec- 3676 tion with rivers for practically all of my professional career. I have had experience on the lower Mississippi and other rivers in the South and a number of rivers in the West. I have also done work in South America and in Mexico. For some time I have had charge of irrigation work on the Colorado river and its tributaries for the Reclamation Department. 3677 I have personally covered the Green River from about its source in Wyoming down to Flaming Gorge, Utah, and the Grand River from Moab down to its junction with the Green and from Hite down 3678 to Lees Ferry. During the latter part of June, 1914, I went down the Green River in a boat from Greenriver, Utah, to the junction and back again to Greenriver, Utah, on reconnaissance, that is, to look the country over and see whether the United States would be justified in making further examination or surveys for a dam site at the junction or just below the junction. On this trip I had a launch 522 1641 |
