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Show 5565 Hite - D 3573 15 Q Just tell me about the floods on the Colorado River as you sew them and observed them at that time? A The rise and fall of the river, do you have refer-ence to ? Q Yes. A Well, in some of the narrow places, above the ex-treme low level of the river was approximately 75 or 90 feet, where it was boxed- up narrow walls. At Dandy Crossing, at Hite, and at Good Hope, I think the highest river we had was about 21 or 22 feet while I was there; it had been higher than that. The waster was no thick with silt and mud that you could not hardly settle it enough to get a drink. Q These floods that you speak of -- are you now re-ferring to the annual rises that some following the melting of the snow? A That is one of them, yes sir; others are from freshets up the stream -- cloudbursts, etc., that same from up the stream in the Colorado River. Q What months in the year did you get the ruse from the snow melting? |