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The question of using the reservoir for a mill pond at the same time that the State is using it for 

 reservoir purposes, is so inconsistent that no extended abstract of the evidence is necessary, or an 

 argument to convince one that a body of water that is going up and down, the water being entirely 

 drawn out in the summer season, is not a suitable mill-pond for the storage of logs, and that any logs 

 stored in such a place would be more than apt to be stranded in the mud and mire when needed. 



(6.) Territory rendered inaccessible to Itimhering operations by rail by reason of the resenmr. 



Not only is it more expensive, as above shown, to lumber claimant's tract of land by rail than by 

 water, but the reservoir actually cuts off 21,678 acres, so as to make the same wholly inaccessible for 

 lumbering operations by rail. The lands which are rendered by the reservoir wholly inaccessible are : 



Lands in the valley of the Red Horse Chain of lakes. 



Lands surrounding the Twitchell Lake and Twitchell Creek. 



Lands surrounding the south branch of the Beaver River. 



{«.) Mountain ranges and their direction. 



A glance at the topographical map shows that the mountain ranges extend in oblique angles nearly 

 diagonal to the river. These mountain ranges on the tract are about 2,000 feet above the deep sea 

 level and about 250 to 500 feet above the level of the river. 



It is self-evident that in lumbering operations the logs will have to be brought down the ravines 

 and valleys to the river. They can not be drawn over the mountains. 



DAVID C. WOOD, surveyor and engineer, and a practical woodsman, who has spent about 

 three years with a large corps of assistants in making a survey and topographical map of the 

 claimant's lands, testified : 



Township 5: That there are 4,000 acres in the east third of Township 5, north of the Beaver 

 River, the timber from which can not be taken to the railroad on account of the reservoir; that 

 between these 4,000 acres and the railroad, there are three mountain ranges averaging from 250 to 

 500 feet above the river level ; and that there are no passes in the mountains through which loads 

 could be drawn; that it would not be practicable to draw loads of logs over mountains 250 feet high; 

 and that there is no way of getting from the lands in Township 5 north tjf the Beaver River to the 

 railroad, except by crossing the reservoir. 



Township 43: That there are 4,342 acres in Township 43, the timber from which can not be 

 taken to market except by crossing the reservoir ; that there are two principal mountain ranges, and 

 in some portions three, between these 4,342 acres and the railroad, with the average height of 340 

 feet above the valley, with no passes that could be utilized, the lowest pass existing being from 250 to 

 300 feet above the river level. 



Township 42 ; In Township 42 there are 2.840 acres, the timber from which can not be taken to 

 market by rail except by crossing the reservoir. There is one mountain range between these 2,840 

 acres and the railroad, which is from 300 to 600 feet in height above the level of the river, 

 with no passes. 



Township 38 ; That there are 464 acres of land in Township 38, the timber from which can not be 

 taken to the railroad except by crossing the reservoir because of two heavy mountain ranges from 

 250 to 600 feet above the river level intervening between the land and the railroad ; and that north of 

 the river and railroad there are 11,759 acres of land, the timber from which can not be taken to the 

 railroad without crossing the reservoir. 



This is very apparent from an inspection of the topographical map of the lands. The land so 

 affected was indicated by Mr. Wood as being enclosed in the green lines upon one of the exhibits 

 used in the trial of the case to which reference is made. The lands upon the north side of the railroad 

 and reservoir thus affected are principally in the Red Horse Chain of lakes ; that is, in the valley of 

 Big Burnt Lake, Salmon Lake, Witchhopple and Nigger Lake, with their connecting streams 



{b. I The floiu from the reservoir extends hack in most cases to the base of the mountains. 



This condition of things can be readily seen by a glance at the map. The flow extends up the 

 Loon Lake Valley, up the valley of the Red Horse Chain and up the valley of the South Branch and 



