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Show Record the other and goes along a certain place. In high water the current will probably go the other way. The current is going with the channel in the first instance, but the current of the river, that is, the strong part of it, will probably cross over the other way, and an eddy will form where the low water channel is, and a small bar may form where this eddy comes down and connects with the main channel for a little way, just a little pointed bar where the eddy water goes up next to the bank and comes over and strikes the current of the river, probably the length of this room. In going up stream we make it up beyond the point of that little bit of bar, and then we have to come back and get around it and go out in the swift water. We simply get in there to make some time. That little point of bar that forms across the low water channel is the only difference that I see in the channel. That is the only type of unstability I have noticed. When I stated that I was never stuck with the Marguerite, I did not mean that I was never stuck on a sand bar. I meant I always got through. I did not mean that I never hit a sand bar. 4803 Defendant's Exhibit 20 is a photograph of the engineers going down the Colorado from Halls Crossing. It points out an obstruction on the side of the river that causes the sand bar to form on the side of the bank. Defendant's Exhibit 19 is a photograph of the scow we used and the Marguerite to haul the government stuff down to the 4804 junction of the rivers during the drilling. The scow is in the lower part of the picture and the Marguerite is behind that tied up to the bank. Defendant's Exhibit 19 and 20 were received in evidence. On exhibit 20, the projecting obstruction turns the river away during low water. I am referring to the point covered by vegetation on the left bank of the river as you look at the picture. When the river rises in high water the current will come and |
