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Show 4098 Sawyer- D 2119 BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q That is the Betsy Ann in that picture? A Yes sir. Q Mr. Sawyer, about how many trips have you made between Greenriver and the junction? A There is the one with the survey party, one with the diamond drilling outfit, and I think I made three or four trips out while the drilling operations were going on, two I think up the Grand river, and one accompanying Mr. La Rue on Mr. Wimmer's boat up the Green river to Wimmer's ranch. Q As far as the Green river is concerned, with refer-ence to the channel, did you observe anything with reference to changing conditions in the channel, on these various trips, and if so, what? A There is no fixed channel that we could discover, except in two or three places where the bars threw the water against these rock cliffs at sharp curves in the cliffs themselves; the cliffs, I think, were the controlling points there; at these points the water was very fast, and deeper, but other-wise, especially at the wide place across the river where the river would widen out, it was full of low bars, with a shifting continually from day to day; we never found the same conditions on these low bars at any one time, or were able to follow any established course in navigating the |
