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Show point they went there and 180 would travel back and forth across the river and make frequent landings . The testimony above digested of Tasker and other witnesses for Defendant is fully corroborated by ( Complainant's Complainants ) ( witness vitness ) Seitz , who was topographic engineer with the U . S . G . S . on the 1912 survey from Moab to the mouth of Green River . On his direct examination ( R . 4022 , Vol . 22 ) ' , when asked to give his observations with reference to the channel of the river or with reference to sand bars , he stated that he did not make any observation with reference to them except ( "when when ) we were pulling in shore and leaving shore . " Mr . Chenoeweth , who was in charge of the 1921 survey from the mouth of Green River downstream , testified that he did not recall having any difficulty in getting the boats through the rapid water ( be- be ) tween Green River , Utah , and the mouth of the San Rafael , and that between the mouth of the San Rafael to the mouth of the Green River he recalled no difficulty with his boats either through Labyrinth Canyon or through Stillwater ( Can- Can ) yon , and that he did not recall encountering any sand bars . ( R . 3888 , Vol . 21 . ) We have been unable to find any ( testi- testi ) mony on the part of Mr . Chenoeweth that he encountered . any difficulty on account of sand bars or alleged unstable channel between the mouth of the Dirty Devil ( Fremont River ) and ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing where his party was surveying in July and August , 1921 . The witnesses for Complainant and Defendant generally agree that , as to navigability , the Green River between its mouth and the mouth of the San Rafael and the Colorado River between Moab and the mouth of the Green and the Colorado River between the foot of Cataract Canyon and the ( Utah-Arizona UtahArizona ) line , are substantially the same ; that is to say , one of said stretches of river is as readily navigable as either of the other stretches . There is , of course , more water in the lower Colorado , but it flows a little swifter . ( Com- Com ) ( plainant's plainants ) witness Hoyt says that in his judgment it would be as easy to go up and down the Green River between its mouth and the San Rafael as to go up and down the Colorado between the mouth of the Green and Moab ( R . 300 , Vol . 2 ) although he says he encountered much ( more Tnore ) trouble with sand bars on the Colorado than on the Green . ( R . 285 , Vol . 2 . ) Shaw says ( R . 3658 , Vol . 20 ) that the difficulties of navigation on the Colorado between the mouth of the Green and Moab are similar ( "or or ) possibly ( worse" worse ) than on the Green River . Richardson says ( R . 3695-6 , Vol . 20 ) that |