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Show 185 bars -- what I have described as crossing bars; they can be call ed crossing bars or shoals, where the depth runs from one inch to half a foot. Q And that, generally, was the condition from the mouth of the San Rafael down to --? A That, generally, is the condition -- a gentle, slow moving stream. Probably the velocity is two or three miles an hour, just sufficient so that if you try to row upstream you might make a mile an hour upstream; you can make upstream progress with effort by rowing; you might make a mile or two miles an hour upstream by rowing, as I had opportunity to judge where we would have to drift down past the bar and then try to row back to the bar. Q Is the channel of this river between those two points what you would call a permanent channel? A The channel is in no sense a permanent channel, except here and there, where it may shut against the rock wall, and occasionally, or nearly always, in going around a curve the outer edge of the flood channel where the water was would shut against the rocky slope, or the rock wall; and then in another sense that would be permanent; I mean that would be a fixed, permanent place. Q The far greater percentage of the mileage is shifting? A A far greater percentage of the mileage is against the earth barks, the bars really, and the benches which have been 2148 |
