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Show Record One place we stopped two days to measure the section of the forma-tions exposed. 4187 Counsel for complainant calls attention to complainant's Exhibit 89 and also Exhibit 94, motor readings at Cisco and Green-river during months of September and October, 1926. Selden Spencer Nye testified on cross examination as follows: 4188 I cannot give you the exact location where we stopped two days on shore. It was something like 12 miles above the junc-tion of the rivers. We were going slowly and were able to map the geology as we proceeded. We stopped comparatively to do mapping. Our stops were to examine the formations. We went to shore quite 4189 frequently to examine the formations. We landed three or four times each day. Neither of us had ever been on the rivers before in a boat and had no former knowledge as to location of channels, or anything of the kind. We did not have to follow close along the shore. We were trying to follow the deepest channels of the stream. Our progress was so slow that one of us could map while 4190 the other would guide the boat. We could not see whore the channel was every time. We got fooled quite often on where it was. At the mouth of the San Rafael the channel was in dif-ferent streams. At that point we got down a channel that became shallow then we had one of two alternatives, either to go back up or drag the boat over the shallow place into deeper water and 4191 another channel. I mean, one channel, or I might call it a ribbon of water would at a lower point slow over to one of the other 4192 channels. We did not use the motor going down from Greenriver to the San Rafael, because we did not want to damage the propeller. We did not use it from there on down because we wanted to save gas chiefly, and the current was swift enough to take us as fast as we wished to go. I cannot tell you the weight of our load. We had 18 or 20 days' supplies, two cots, two bed- rolls, gasoline, oil, instruments, food, and two kegs of fresh water. We were 10 or 12 days |