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DAVID C. WOOD testified: The Chris. Wagner Camp, so called, is about half a mile below 

 the outlet of the Red Horse Chain. There is a house there, and when the dam is closed there is 

 about five feet of water on the floor. There is a camping place of 1,000 feet water front capable of 

 making five or six lots at the so-called Sand Spring or Cold Spring, above the South Branch Junction, 

 and when the reservoir is filled the spring is obliterated. There is a good camping ground, where 

 camps have been, just below the Loon Lake carry, which the reservoir has obliterated, spring and 

 all. There is a camp and camping ground at the Big Burnt Lake carry that is flooded. 



DR. JAMES TAMBLIN testified that prior to the building of the State dam that the valley of 

 the Beaver River was used to quite an extent for camping ; that the Sand Spring Camp had been in 

 constant use since his earliest recollection ; that there were camps at Loon Lake outlet, Grassy Point, 

 Chris. Wagner's Camp at Big Burnt Lake, and various other places since his earliest recollection. 



HON. WM. P. GOODELL testified that he should regard the Sand Spring as a desirable 

 camping place ; that he had known the river for twelve years ; that there were camps opposite Big 

 Burnt Lake, at Grassy Point, Chris. Wagner's, Loon Lake, and that the river generally through that 

 section was available for camp sites for fishing and hunting purposes. 



HON. LANSING HOTALING testified that he has known the Beaver River since 1868; has 

 spent there on the average four or five weeks a year ; is familiar with the old hunting and camping 

 places along the river ; that camping was done at Sand Spring Camp, Chris. Wagner's Camp, Grassy 

 Point, Cold Spring, Loon Lake outlet and Big Burnt Lake; that parties camped quite indiscrimi- 

 nately all along the river, and that there were very many camping places. 



HON. T. M. REED testified that he was acquainted with the former camping places along the 

 Beaver River near the location of Chris. Wagner's Camp, and that there was a beautiful spring of 

 water back of the camp, twenty-five or thirty rods; that there was a camping place just a little way 

 above there ; there was also the Greeley Camp, at the mouth of the Red Horse Creek, used exten- 

 sively for camps ; that camping was done right opposite Big Burnt Lake, and at Big Burnt Lake; 

 that there were available camp sites very nearly all around the lake; that camping was done at 

 Grassy Point and on the South Branch at various places. 



DR. J. W. CANDEE testified that the Beaver River was also used extensively for camping 

 purposes. 



(/.) Effect of the reservoir upon former camp sites. 



These camp sites above mentioned have all been submerged and destroyed by the reservoir, and 

 the springs filled up and spoiled for use. Reference is made to minutes of testimony. 



(g. ) Original condition of the flooded area as regards a place for the support of deer. 



The flooded area was a natural feeding ground for deer. There can be no reasonable dispute 

 about that proposition, and reference is only made to a little of the testimony upon that subject. 



DR. J. W. CANDEE testified that the valley of the Beaver River was very decidedly, in 'its 

 original condition, a natural feeding ground for deer. 



ANDREW J. MUNCEY testified that the place was a natural feeding ground for deer, and a 

 natural place for them to winter. 



(//.) Effect of the reservoir upon game. 



It would seem that no discussion was necessary to establish the proposition that where there is a 

 natural feeding ground for deer, that when that feeding ground was covered with water it would be 

 destroyed, and that then the deer would go elsewhere for feed, which would diminish the value of the 

 land for sporting purposes. 



DR. J. W. CANDEE testified that these natural feeding grounds were destroyed, or, if they 

 existed, were put so far back into the woods as to be inaccessible. 



A. J. MUNCEY testified that when the reservoir was full there wasn't any feeding ground. 



(i.) Effect of the reservoir npon health. 



The effect of the reservoir has been to change what was formerly a healthful locality to a place for 

 breeding diseases. 



