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1 prior to the last two months?

2 A Not absolutely full. It stood for three or four months

3 last year, at eighteeninches frcna overflow.
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Q. Do you recall the dimensionsof thedam?
5 A Abouta hundredand eighty feet hi.SL

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Q. How thick at the base?
7 A A hundredand seventyfeet.

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Q. What is the length of it overall?
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A That is a hard thing to deal with, to generalizeby a

10 certain answer.Part of the dam covers the ravine thatdrains

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the country. That goes much deeper than nearthe top of the dam
12 at the western extension. The western extensionis up on a

13 sort of anatural dyke,but the mainbulk of the damis a'bellt sixhundred

14 feet longand it goesdownin a "V" forminto the ..,._. At the

15 bottom it is about two hundred andfifty feet long I would say.

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I can furniswh the drawings, giving the dimensionsof all these
17 things, your Honor,

18 I think we will wantthoseadrawings.
Q. All right, sir,
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Are they here ·now,

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»lt. Dennison: I had the drawingsandthey arein the huil8
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of Mr. Mayberry.
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tl By lIERllil Mohr: It will not be necessary to produce
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them now, however, We merelywantedto get a pictureof the construction

24 of the dam.

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Q. By the Coroner: Did you personally oversee the construction
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of thedam?
27 A I was very close to it. OccasionallyI might have missed

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three or four days in succession, but I I was there almost every
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A. Yes sir.
32 Q. Was it reinforced?

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