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Show Record guess for me to say how many second feet of water were in the Green River when I started on my first trip. There were probably six thousand second feet. It is absolutely a guess. I have been raised on water, so to speak, and have traveled a great deal on boats all 4689 my life. My main practice in civil engineering has been hydraulic engineering. From that I have formed some idea of stream flow. My answer was based on my knowledge of the flow of Green River in general from studying the records of Green River. As to the number of second feet in the river on my second trip I can only 4690 make an estimate. The river averages about 600 feet wide. The quieter part of the river is quite shallow, maybe only a foot or so, the rest of it would be 4 or 5 feet, that would be where the main flow of the water was, of course. The average velocity of the stream, I noticed at the time I made this trip, in the channel of the stream, was about three feet in the quieter parts of the river; in the rest of it sometimes the water would be absolutely flowing up stream, sometimes be perfectly quiet, so it was real difficult to make an estimate without and actual measurement, but I think that 6000 feet is a fair estimate, and not an overestimate of the amount of water that was flowing down the river about the first of June, 1908. 4691 My previous trip was made in July, 1907. Probably the 4692 latter part of the month. Counsel for complainant refers to complainant's Exhibit 4693 94, stream flow record for the years 1907 and 1908. I think Mr. Oppenheimer steered the boat and I was up in front. He ran the engine. When there was any occasion to give him directions I gave them to him. The occasion for my giving him directions was sometimes you might have a tendency to run on a sand bar that had been built out from the bank and I would simply tell him to move one way or the other so as to avoid it. To that 4694 extent I assisted in the operation of the boat. When I got back I left the boat with Mr. Oppenheimer at Elgin. It was his boat. There was a hotel at Elgin when I was there. |