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Show 481 " Q Wherein does volume figure in the picture? " A Vessel transportation is very expensive per trip, and unless a considerable volume of freight is available for each trip, the operation of the vessel makes the cost of transportation extremely high. " Q When you say ' volume of transportation', what quantities does that contemplate?" R. 1225- 1226. The question there ordinarily resolves itself into how much transportation charge the traffic will bear. " In some instances the competition of highways or railroads makes it impossible to develop water transportation unless the water transportation is cheap per unit of volume moved." R. 1226. The Colorado River is quite permanently located, between rock banks. " It has very small opportunity to move sideways more than a few hundred feet. There were very few sections of the country where the river could have moved its full width without encountering the rock on the other side. " For example, if the normal width from rock to rock is eight hundred feet, the river would normally occupy, say six hundred. There are places where the rock widens out so that the distance from rock to rock is possibly twelve hundred feet, and in a few pockets it is perhaps as such as two thousand feet. I only recall one such pocket, at the moment, and that is so- called Cataract bottomed, just below the junction between the Green and the Colorado rivers, and of course the basin at Moab, which |