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The State has built no bridges so that the land owner can cross from one side of the reservoir to 

 the other. 



The fact that there are no bridges can be easily determined from an inspection of the premises, 

 and attention is only briefly directed to the evidence. 



It was attempted to show by the Attorney-General that there was one point where a 300-foot 

 bridge could be built across; but the difficulty with such a place is that it would necessitate excavating 

 and digging a system of roads on each side, besides making a five-mile haul. 



The expense of a substantial bridge 300 feet long, sufficiently strong to draw heavy lumber loads 

 across, was not shown by the learned Attorney-General. Anyone with any experience in bridge 

 building knows that such a bridge would be very expensive. 



It is apparent that to go from the south to the north of claimant's lands is impossible. It was 

 suggested that lumbering upon the north could be done by taking the lumber from the lands north 

 of the reservoir in a southeast direction to the railroad. This would be impossible because of inter- 

 vening mountain ranges, as will hereafter be seen. 



(23.) Effect of the reservoir upon highways. 



The only highway upon the tract has been entirely submerged and flooded, so that now, so far as 

 highways are concerned, the tract of land is completely isolated. 



DAVID C. WOOD testified that there is only one highway on the south side of the river, and 

 that it is flooded for a half mile so deep that it will be necessary to ferry across. 



ANDREW J. MUNCEY testified that the raising of the water stopped the highway and flooded 

 it about seventy or eighty rods, and that in order for him to cross he built a ferry and had to ferry 

 across. At the time of the first raise Muncey built a floating bridge, and when the dam was raised 

 he couldn't use the bridge. 



{24.) The reserz'oir has destroyed and interfered with the drainage on at least 1,000 acres of land 

 outside of the flow line. 



DAVID C. WOOD testified that 927 acres of land surrounding the reservoir had been made wet 

 and swampy, and its drainage interfered with. 



It is obvious that this marshy, wet condition outside of the actual flow line would interfere with 

 all lumbering operations or in any uses to which the land might be put. 



(25.) The la)td flooded is absolutely necessary to use in order to lumber the balance of the tract 

 by water. 



A glance at the map is sufficient to convince any one that the land which the State has flooded is 

 actually necessary to be used for lumbering purposes. Without the use of the land flooded and the 

 free use of the waters of the river, it will be absolutely impossible to float a single stick of timber 

 down the river. It would be absolutely impossible to cross from the south side of the tract to the 

 north side ; for, as the testimony discloses, to which attention is hereafter called, the mountain ranges 

 run nearly at right angles to the river, so that the loads of lumber or supplies could not be driven 

 across the mountain ranges. The land and water taken by the State are necessary to be used in 

 lumbering the balance of the tract. 



So far as lumbering by water is concerned the dam and reservoir and the manner of its use by the 

 State is a complete embargo upon all lumbering operations conducted by water. 



As was testified to by one of the witnesses, Erastus Darling : That there was no way of lumber- 

 ing this tract of land, or any portion of it, without using the portion embraced within the reservoir; 

 that it would be necessary to use the land and water within the reservoir, and that the fact that the 

 land and water within the flow ground are necessary to be used for lumbering the balance of the 

 tract, makes the flooded land much more valuable than it otherwise would be. 



It must be taken as a fact conclusively established that the dam, in the condition in which it is 

 built, the reservoir, with the tangle and driftwood, and the manner in which the dam and reservoir 

 is used by the State for storage purposes, completely cuts of? claimant's tract of over 65,000 acres 

 from being lumbered by water. 



Lumbering by water is the most natural and feasible way of lumbering. The tributaries of the 

 Beaver River make the whole tract accessible for lumbering. The railroad upon the tract unlike the 



